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AHP Bite Size Learning - Feel Braver to have Sensitive Conversations - an AHP approach
Thursday 19th September 2024
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Online
Who should attend:
This session is suitable for all Allied Health Professionals who support patients and family members.
An opportunity to learn some communication skills that will help build your confidence to facilitate sensitive conversations.
Course Aims:
To introduce communication skills which will help you feel more confident to have sensitive conversations with your patients or service users.
Objectives:
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To describe facilitative skills that can assist with sensitive conversations
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To challenge the role of AHP’s in having sensitive conversations
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To share examples of communication skills using clinical scenarios
Presented by
Manisha Cook
Specialist Physiotherapist and Lecturer Practitioner
Manisha has worked as a specialist physiotherapist at The Hospice of St Francis for 9 years and previously has worked in community and acute healthcare settings in London and Hertfordshire.
Manisha has recently completed her level 4 Certificate in Teaching and Education, and is committed to providing a specialist palliative education programme for Allied Health Professionals and the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Amy Smissen
Lecturer Practitioner and Community Occupational Therapist
Throughout her career she has worked in a range of settings including a community learning disability team, an inpatient neurological rehab unit and a local charity providing support to people living with long-term neurological conditions.
Amy joined the Hospice of St Francis in 2023 and works 3 days a week in the Community Team, bringing her unique OT perspective to enable community patients to optimise their function and ultimately, their overall quality of life. Amy has always enjoyed facilitating therapeutic groupwork sessions, running workshops and training sessions both for patients and carers and with fellow clinicians. These skills lend themselves well to her Lecturer Practitioner role, which she took on in early 2024.
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