Program Overview

This inter-professional module will provide professionals from health, education and social care disciplines with essential knowledge and skills to provide holistic, inter-professional care to children and young people with life limiting conditions and their families. Students will be able to explore inter-professional working relationships between health and social care professionals who can support life limited children and young people within a wider children’s palliative care framework. Practitioners will be supported to develop a toolkit of resources that will enable them to provide care to life limited children, young people and their families. This will include discharge planning, caring for the client group across different settings, and taking account of the holistic needs of the child or young person and their family e.g. counselling, bereavement and spiritual support