An interactive session for care home staff, who provide care to residents approaching the end of their life, and how to embed best practice in end-of-life care within their care home.

It is recommended that new staff attend face to face training when available.

Once your place on this event has been confirmed, you will receive a separate email with a link to the Microsoft Teams or Zoom meeting.

Please note this email will be sent from the East Sussex Learning Portal.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR SPAM/JUNK FOLDERS FOR THIS EMAIL.

The link to join the training will be sent one week before the day of the event.

Please read the attached document "Attending Online Training" before joining the course.

Please look out for an email to complete session evaluation. We would appreciate your time in completing this so we can evaluate this temporary process. You will then be able to access your certificate.

To support individuals approaching the end of their life to live well until they die by adopting best practice in end-of-life care.

By the end of this session, it is anticipated you will:

• Be able to identify and involve individuals at end of life and support their end-of-life choices and preferences for their care, recognising individual needs and     knowing how to document and review

• Be able to recognise the importance of pain and symptom management at end of life, and the role of the support worker in this

• Recognise when someone is in the dying phase.

This course is specifically aimed at support workers in care homes, and supports the ‘End of Life Care: Embedding Excellence within Care Homes: for Managers and Senior Staff workshop’ attended by their senior managers.