Health and Social Care

This course consists of the following five mandatory units, all of which must be completed in order to achieve the qualification:

Unit 1: Understanding end of life care

• Including the range of different attitudes and emotive issues surrounding death and dying, as well as the current approaches to end of life care and the support services available.

Unit 2: Communication during end of life care

• Including the different communication skills required when administering end of life care, potential barriers to communication and how to overcome these in an effective, positive manner.

Unit 3: Assessment and care planning in end of life care

• Including what is meant by both the holistic approach and the person-centred approach to assessment and care planning.

Unit 4: Person-centred approaches to end of life care

• Including the person-centred approach to end of life care by examining how to support the psychological, social, spiritual, religious, cultural and emotional needs of an individual.

Unit 5: Care during the final hours of life and bereavement care

• Including the sensitive approach needed when approaching death and the final hours of care. The process of grief and loss, how to support people following a bereavement and how to deal with your own feelings of grief are all considered here.

Successful completion of this qualification will help to support progression into and within a number of job roles, including:

To find out more information please email distance.learning@bcot.ac.uk quoting the course reference, or to enrol now click the button below.