Education and Learning

Learn with Rowcroft Hospice’s award-winning Education Team – experts in palliative and end of life care learning and development.

Rowcroft is committed to sharing expertise, knowledge, and best practice through our outstanding education offer.

The Rowcroft Education Programme offers both online and classroom learning events and includes the successful End of Life care Ambassadors programme.

“It’s been really fantastic. It’s been above my level of expectation. The team that taught us have taught us so much.”

-Rebecca, Student

Watch this short video to hear from other students that have attended Education learning events at Rowcroft – it’s two minutes of joyful feedback.

Would you like to become an End-of-Life Care Ambassador for your workplace?

This successful annual programme in partnership with Torbay & South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is a fantastic opportunity for those working in health and social care wishing to further improve their skills and knowledge.

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End of Life Care for All (e-ELCA) is a free e-learning resource.

More than 180 interactive training sessions are available, covering areas such as advance care planning, social care and symptom management. While the site is aimed at health and social care professionals, it’s open to everyone. Please visit the e-ELCA website to find out more.

End of Life Care for All Online Courses

Meet Rowcroft’s Award-Winning Education Team

Kerry Macnish, Registered Nurse (RN) BSc (Hons) Cert Ed

Kerry Macnish is Rowcroft’s Head of Education. Kerry’s career as a community palliative clinical nurse began in 1987 in Exeter. She published a chapter on palliative nursing in Palliative Care for People with Cancer in 2002 and was awarded International Journal of Palliative Nursing Educationalist of the Year in 2007. She has been a hospice educator since 2008 in Exeter and Torbay, is a lead facilitator for the Advanced Communication Skills programmes, a L2 Restorative Justice facilitator and a L3 CMI coach and mentor.

Catherine Hughes, Registered Nurse (RN)

Catherine Hughes RN started her career working as a hospice nurse in Texas in 1992. She has worked in oncology and joined Rowcroft Hospice in 2007, working in the Inpatient Unit, Day Services and the Education Team. While working in the Education Team has led projects for care homes in South Devon and testing the Advance care planning Brief intervention in practice. Catherine has been part of the Advanced Communication Skills facilitation team since 2018 and is a L1 Restorative Justice facilitator.

Jo Powell, Education Administrator and Co-ordinator

Jo Powell is Rowcroft’s Education Administrator and Co-ordinator. Jo is your first point of contact for booking applications and enquiries to the Education Team and is always happy to help. To contact the team please email: education@rowcrofthospice.org.uk

Jo has been at Rowcroft since 2013, starting off as a volunteer before joining the Education Team in 2014.

Rowcroft Passionately believes that good education leads to good care.

We provide as many learning events and opportunities as possible, funded through grants and donations to those within the South Devon locality.

“You can tell in their manner how passionate they are and how invested they are in learning.”

– Victoria, Student