Monday 3rd June 2024, 14.00-16.30 Online via Zoom

Booking Fee £20

Payments cannot be taken at this time. Please email education@ghhospicecare.org.uk to register your interest. 

HCT staff need to book via email as there are limited funded spaces available for HCT Staff.

About the course:

SAGE & THYME is a research-based communication skills session that provides person-centred support to someone with emotional concerns using the SAGE & THYME structure. The SAGE & THYME structure is suitable for talking to anyone: patients and carers, students, colleagues, and children, inside and outside of health and social care.

The SAGE and THYME Foundation Level workshop reminds staff how to listen and how to respond in a way which empowers the patient. It discourages staff from ‘fixing’ and demonstrates how to work with the patient’s own ideas first. The training is based on research findings on effective communication skills.

The structure and workshop were developed by members of staff at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and a patient in 2006, to teach the core skills of dealing with people in distress.

The session covers the level 1 guidance which states that all health and social care staff should be able to:

• recognise psychological distress.
• avoid causing psychological harm.
• communicate honestly and compassionately.
• know when they have reached the boundary of their competence.

Who should attend:

The training was originally developed to meet the level 1 skills requirement described in the 2004 NICE guidance on ‘Improving Supportive and Palliative Care for Adults with Cancer’, although the principles are generic and can be used with anyone in distress.  

NB HCT staff need to book via email as there are limited funded spaces available for HCT Staff.

For further information, or to book (HCT Staff only) please email education@ghhospicecare.org.uk