At The Myton Hospices, we believe that everyone matters for every single moment of their life and that people deserve the highest quality of care, delivered with expertise and compassion, whether they are supported by Myton or elsewhere.
Our Clinical Education Team is dedicated to ensuring that Myton’s staff and local healthcare practitioners receive excellent training and education, so that people in our community receive the best possible palliative and end of life care.
In collaboration with Warwickshire County Council, we are proud to host The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism.
This training is available to staff at Myton as well as external Health and Social Care staff across Coventry and Warwickshire, funded to continue at our Coventry Myton Hospice until March 2025.
The Myton Clinical Education Team is also working with our Volunteer Development Team to provide ongoing training for a new volunteering role.
The Listening Ear volunteers will support our Patient & Carer Wellbeing patients by speaking with them over the phone to further support them and their needs.
We have partnered with the national QELCA® (Quality End of Life Care for All) programme to offer training at Myton for nurses from different settings, including hospital wards and care homes.
We are currently running the QELCA® programme supporting nurses working across 11 different wards at Warwick Hospital. The programme includes three classroom training days and two clinical practice days at our hospice Inpatient Units.
Dr Sarah MacLaran, Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Myton and South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and Medical Education Lead at The Myton Hospices, is Chair of the CASTLE Education Steering Group (Care And Support Towards Life’s End).
Working closely with members of the group, including Emma Charles, our Clinical Education Lead, they represent the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital and Community Specialist Palliative Care Services, Hospices, and Care Homes.
Their role is to plan and provide education and training in palliative and end of life care for health and social care professionals in our community.
The Myton Hospices have also provided bespoke training to Methodist Homes through their bi-annual Preceptorship Programme and to Royal British Legion Care Homes, helping care home nurses enhance their palliative care skills.
Additionally, we have supported training in end of life prescribing for out of hours practitioners within the Circle Healthcare Group to ensure continuous high quality care.
Our Inpatient Units and Patient & Carer Wellbeing service continue to provide professional development and experience in palliative and end of life care for student nurses, through the provision of clinical placements.
We support numerous bespoke learning placements for a wide range of healthcare professionals, including; Paramedics, Clinical Nurse Specialists, doctors including Clinical Fellows, GP specialty trainees, Palliative Medicine Registrars, Specialty and Specialist Doctors, Registered Nurses and Healthcare Assistants from community and hospital settings, which enables them to enhance their knowledge and experience of hospice care.
Alongside this, we frequently welcome visiting doctors from local hospitals and general practices, ranging from Foundation Year 1 doctors to Consultants and GPs.
We also provide training within our hospices for undergraduate medical students from Warwick University, University of Birmingham and Buckingham University.
The Myton Medical Team hosts weekly Medical Education Sessions via Teams, inviting doctors working in palliative medicine within the Coventry and Warwickshire Specialist Palliative Care Teams in hospitals and the community on a fortnightly basis, and all staff working in hospices and Specialist Palliative Care across this area on a monthly basis.
Our Education Team is committed to helping our staff with further study and qualifications within in their specialist areas of practice.
We are being supported by the International Nurse Recruitment Team at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust with access to their overseas nurse conversion course and training.
We plan to continue developing this training process for our overseas nurses who wish to pursue this in their future at The Myton Hospices.
Education is such a vital part of Myton, ensuring everyone within Coventry and Warwickshire has access to the best possible palliative and end of life care.