Psychosocial Training
Introduction
Welcome to our directory of training resources for healthcare professionals involved in the delivery of psychosocial services. There are four main areas of training:
- General learning resources
- Communications skills
- Psychological care
- Holistic Needs Assessments (HNAs)
If you can't find what you are looking for, or have a query about psychosocial training, please complete our contact form.
General Learning Resources
A range of useful resources and templates covering:
- Treatment summaries
- Holistic Needs Assessment
- Consequences of treatment
- Other useful resources
Training modules covering:
• HNA
• Macmillan 4Explore
• Communicating with People in Distress
• Cancer Awareness
• Active Listening
• Introduction to Communication skills
• Managing Difficult Conversations
• Understanding Personalised Care
• Personalised Care and Support for People Living with Cancer, Cancer Prevention
• Macmillan Profession Community (for new Macmillan Professionals)
Training modules covering:
- HNA
- Macmillan 4Explore
- Communicating with People in Distress
- Cancer Awareness
The All Our Health programme helps professionals make an even greater impact in preventing illness, protecting health, promoting wellbeing and reducing health inequalities.
Communications Skills
Macmillan Learning and Communications Hub
Training modules covering:
- Active Listening
- Listening Introduction to Communication skills
- Managing Difficult Conversations
- Understanding Personalised Care
- Personalised Care and Support for People Living with Cancer
- Cancer Prevention
Macmillan - Difficult Conversations
Macmillan have produced a 13 minute recorded PowerPoint presentation to support you when having difficult conversations at work.
Macmillan have provided some general principles around effective communication and have looked specifically at how you might use cues to provide more focus to your conversations.
Barts Health: Health Literacy training
Please note this course is for Barts staff only.
Psychological Care
Level 2 Psychological support training
The training will be facilitated by psychological specialists working in cancer and palliative care across NEL. It is an interactive event with a mixture of taught components and group discussion. The training is only available to the below NHS employees working in North East London:
Adult Cancer CNS’s who are a core member of the Cancer MDT |
Adult Specialist Palliative Care CNS’s, Social Workers, AHPs and End of Life Care Facilitators
Qualified Cancer AHPs working predominantly with people affected by Cancer
Research nurses working on cancer trials
Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Managers
Attendance is free. Please note pre booking is required, for any queries please email: nelondonicb.nelcanceralliance@nhs.net
Psychological support skills to enhance cancer care - Macmillan
Explores why it is important to consider the psychological factors in cancer. Considers how they affect uptake of screening and investigations, decision making, adherence to treatment and trust and relationships with a
healthcare team.
Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA)
Macmillan’s HNA Care and Support Planning Leaflet
Electronic Holistic Needs Assessment (eHNA) National Training webinar
Electronic Holistic Needs Assessment (eHNA) YouTube Video
Setting up an assessment on eHNA system
Review London Cancer Alliance Prompt Sheets
Prompt sheets on Holistic Needs Assessment.
Guys Cancer Academy
This learning package guides you on conducting care and support planning consultations and completing care plans following the completion of holistic needs assessments (HNA) by people with cancer.
Clinical discussion groups
Clinical discussion groups are a safe space for cancer palliative care and specialist nurses to come together and enhance their psychological skills and also to think about their wellbeing.