For our final Bereavement Services E-Conference of 2022, we have invited a collection of excellent speakers, providing talks relevant to those working in and in association with bereavement services. The aim of this event is to enhance the confidence of bereavement staff in effectively signposting the bereaved to support agencies, and to share best practice in bereavement services in a variety of contexts.

Presentations with include:

• Detail into the work carried out by the Care Workers Charity, including a COVID overview and the situation facing care workers and health professional, considering the cost of living crisis,
• Discussing the umbrella term of ‘Dementia’ and the grief and bereavement associated, and how health care professionals can more effectively handle and sign-post those impacted,
• A look into the difficulties of end-of-life admin, how Settld can simplify this process for the bereaved and are working towards better bereavement care in the UK,
• Exploring emotional resilience, recognising and responding to compassion fatigue and how to look after ourselves better,
• Discussing into cyber security and actions that Finders International are taking to keep your data safe and secure.

This event is on-demand, so once the event ends, you can re-watch the event at a time that best suits you!

ELAINE RIDLEY
Public Sector Development Manager
Finders International

Elaine Ridley is our Public Sector Development Manager for Hospitals and Coroners, having extensive experience of working for and managing public services. Formerly employed by a local authority as a Coroner’s Service Manager, she has 14 years’ experience in this high-intensity field in England and Northern Ireland. While working in Ireland, she also trained and subsequently volunteered with Cruse Bereavement Care,

providing bereavement support for six years.

Prior to this post, Elaine was the Family Liaison in a large physical and mental health NHS Foundation Trust. Providing a consistently high standard of support to families, carers and service users through Serious Incident or Complaint Investigations, she also developed training and presented locally and nationally on the importance of engaging effectively with families.

If you have attended this event, we would love your feedback. Please click here to leave us some feedback. For every feedback form filled, we will donate £1 to our chosen charity – Keep Britain Tidy. Read more about our chosen charity here.

If you have any further questions regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact us at: [email protected].

When: 8^th September 2022  |  10:00am – 3:30pm
Where: Park Plaza Victoria London, 239 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, Pimlico, London, SW1V 1EQ
Cost: FREE

PHFIS is also proud to announce that we will be sponsoring new research carried out by one of the Country’s leading experts in the field, Dr Glenys Caswell. The research will be exploring the perspectives of those who undertake and participate in PHA funerals.

With more speakers just announced, discussing topics relevant to the field, this should be an essential event for those in the field to attend.

DAVID LOCKWOOD
Senior Business Development Manager
Finders International

If you have any further questions regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact us at: [email protected].

For our first Bereavement Services E-Conference of 2022, we have invited a collection of excellent speakers, providing talks relevant to those working in and in association with bereavement services.

The aim of this event is to enhance the confidence of bereavement staff in effectively signposting the bereaved to support agencies, and to share best practice in bereavement services in a variety of contexts. Presentations with include:

• How to improve outcomes for families affected by serious harm and traumatic bereavements in health and social care services,
• Support for those struggling in bereavement services and signposting effectively in their role,
• Understanding patient and public engagement with the concept of dying and death and how bereavement staff could also benefit,
• Mental health awareness and support,
• How a probate genealogy firm can assist staff working in Bereavement services.

ELAINE RIDLEY
Public Sector Development Manager
Finders International

If you have attended this event, we would love your feedback. Please click here to leave us some feedback. For every feedback form filled, we will donate £1 to our chosen charity – Keep Britain Tidy. Read more about our chosen charity here.

If you have any further questions regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact us at: [email protected].

Bereavement Services E-Conference

7th October 2021  |  10:30am

Cost: FREE

Estimated length of event: 1hr 15 minutes

Introducing a new event category,  in which the main aim is to provide up-to-date information on topics which will enable staff to: quickly and effectively signpost bereaved families to support networks; to highlight the work of relevant external agencies; to appreciate and promote the importance of professional Bereavement Services; and to recognise the personal impact of this work and prioritise self-care.

This particular event focuses on the wellbeing of bereaved families and bereavement professionals through information, and by raising awareness of the support available for both.  Our speakers will be further informing on signposting resources, bereavement support and the concept of ‘moral injury’ in care provision during the pandemic.

Register now to receive updates on the event.

If you have any further questions regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact the event organisers at: [email protected].

Our Speakers:

JANE WOODWARD
Executive Director
At a Loss

DR SUZANNE SHALE
Independent Ethics Consultant, Member of General Medical Council, NHS NED
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust & Clearer Thinking

BETHAN HODGES
Senior Partnerships, Policy and Projects Coordinator
Missing People

LISA WRIGHT
Trauma Trainer and Advisor
Assist Trauma Care

KATIE WATSON
Public Sector Manager
Finders International

Event Organiser:

 
ELAINE RIDLEY
Public Sector Business Development Manager
Finders International

For those with hearing impairments, we can provide a subtitled version of the event. We can also provide translated subtitles in your chosen language. To request this, please contact us at: [email protected]

If you have watched this event, we would love your feedback. Please click here to leave us some feedback. For every feedback form filled, we will donate £1 to our chosen charities – Age UK & Young Minds.

Estimated length of event: 1 hr

Our 2021 installment of the Public Health Act Funerals E-Conference is aimed at environmental health practitioners and local authorities/ other professionals who are involved in PHA Funerals or so-called ‘Pauper’s’ Funerals.

Learning Objectives:

• Review of the Government’s non-statutory guidance and what it means for Local Authorities;
• Assessing good practice when handling Public Health Act Funerals;
• Identifying current weaknesses in procedures;
• Evaluating how to support bereaved families in the process of arranging funerals.

Register now to receive updates on the event.

If you have any further questions regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact the event organisers at: [email protected]

Our Speakers:

 
JULIE DUNK
Chief Executive
Institute of Cemetery and Crematory Management

  
DAVID LOCKWOOD
Senior Business Development Manager
Finders International

LINDESAY MACE
Down to Earth Service Manager
Quaker Social Action

MAYA MAYBLIN
Senior Lecturer
The University of Edinburgh

Event Organiser:

 
DAVID LOCKWOOD
Senior Business Development Manager
Finders International

For those with hearing impairments, we can provide a subtitled version of the event. We can also provide translated subtitles in your chosen language. To request this, please contact us at: [email protected]

If you have watched this event, we would love your feedback. Please click here to leave us some feedback. For every feedback form filled, we will donate £1 to our chosen charities – Age UK & Young Minds.

Estimated length of event: 1 hr 15 mins

We are delighted to bring you our next instalment of our Hospital focused events, with topics relevant to those working within bereavement services across the UK. We would also like to express our utmost appreciation and gratitude to our essential key workers for their dedication and bravery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The aim of this event is to enhance the confidence of bereavement staff in effectively signposting the bereaved to support agencies, and to share best practice in bereavement services. Presentations with include: mental health awareness and support; public health funerals information; support available to Armed Services personnel and their families; and preventing young sudden cardiac deaths and the affected families.

Register now to receive updates on the event.

If you have any further questions regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact the event organisers at: [email protected]

Our Speakers:

JAKE MILLS
Chief Executive
Chasing the Stigma

DR STEVEN COX
Chief Executive Officer
CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young)

NAZIA NAWAZ
Partner
Ramsdens Solicitors

FRANCES ROBINSON
Additional Needs, Disability and Support Groups Service Manager
SSAFA – The Armed Forces Charities

KATIE WATSON
Public Sector Manager
Finders International

Event Organiser:

ELAINE RIDLEY
Public Sector Development Manager
Finders International

For those with hearing impairments, we can provide a subtitled version of the event. We can also provide translated subtitles in your chosen language. To request this, please contact us at: [email protected]

If you have watched this event, we would love your feedback. Please click here to leave us some feedback. For every feedback form filled, we will donate £1 to our chosen charities – Age UK & Young Minds.

Estimated length of event: 1 hr

This e-conference is aimed at hospital and coroner staff. Presentations will include topics such as post mortems; the homeless community and death by suicide; support available to bereaved parents; and a new initiative that seeks to limit the burden placed upon the bereaved in having to contact multiple agencies to advise when a death has occurred.  More information to follow.

Learning Objectives:

• Insight into the support provided by The Compassionate Friends organisation toward bereaved families, enhancing confidence when signposting the bereaved.
• Awareness of research into suicidality within the homeless community and the recommendations from the research which could lead to a reduction in death by suicide.
• Current advancements in post-mortem imaging, results and development.
• Awareness of ‘Settld’ as an additional service for the bereaved in dealing with financial matters. Confidence to share this information with next of kin to reduce their burden of practical matters while dealing with their loss.

Register now to receive updates on the event.

If you have any further questions regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact the event organisers at: [email protected]

Our Speakers:

ANDREW MILLER QC
Chair of Trustees
The Compassionate Friends
Compassionate Friends will explain the support available to bereaved parents (of any age) and highlight resources available.  This information should encourage staff to signpost the bereaved confidently and more effectively.

LANA BOJANIĆ
Research Assistant
The University of Manchester
NCISH will provide insight into the plight of the homeless community and changes which could be made to reduce the number of suicides within this community. The information contained within this study could enhance the recommendations made by Coroners within their Inquest conclusions.

PETER COULSON-SMITH
Business Development Executive
iGene Post Mortem Imaging
iGene post mortem imaging will provide staff with an understanding of how this work has developed and is being utilised in various parts of the country. There has been a huge reduction in the number of pathologists available to carry out standard post mortems and therefore imperative that Coroners staff are aware of the alternative options for future planning.

VICKY WILSON
CEO & Co-Founder
Settld
‘Settld’ is a new initiative established to provide a parallel service to the ‘Tell Us Once’ service, which seeks to limit the burden placed upon the bereaved in having to contact multiple agencies to advise when a death has occurred. Knowledge of this service and confidence to signpost the bereaved has huge potential to limit this additional distress for families. To read more about ‘The Bereavement Standard’ campaign and sign the petition, scroll to the end of the page.

Event Organiser:

ELAINE RIDLEY
Public Sector Development Manager
Finders International

This event is CPD accredited, and contributes to 1 hour of CPD.

If you have watched this event, we would love your feedback. Please click here to leave us some feedback. For every feedback form filled, we will donate £1 to our chosen charities – Age UK & Young Minds.

For those with hearing impairments, we can provide a subtitled version of the event. We can also provide translated subtitles in your chosen language. To request this, please contact us at: [email protected]

The Bereavement Standard would establish:

1. An agreed timeframefor companies to respond to bereavement enquiries and settle outstanding customer balances.
2. A bereavement customer care email channelfor each company, to directly handle such cases and avoid customers waiting on calls.
3. The standardisation of paperworkneeded to close an account, with a view to accepting digital documents whenever possible.

The Bereavement Standard will make it easier for families going through a difficult time. Please sign the campaign to help Settld, help others.

To sign the petition, please follow the link here

If you have watched this event, we would love your feedback. Please click here to leave us some feedback.
For every feedback form filled, we will donate £1 to our chosen charities – Age UK & Young Minds.

Cost: FREE

Estimated length of event: 1 hr 30 mins

We are delighted to bring you our next instalment of our Hospital focused events, with topics relevant to those working within and in association with Hospitals across the UK. We would also like to express the utmost appreciation and gratitude to our essential key workers for their dedication and bravery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Register for the event to begin receiving e-conference updates. 

If you have any further questions regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact the event organisers at: [email protected]

Our Speakers:

 
DR METTE RODGERS
London Lead Medical Examiner
NHS Medical Examiner System

   
TOBY LEE MANNING & ALY DICKINSON
End of Life Doulas
End of Life Doula UK

 
ANDY LANGFORD
Clinical Director
Cruse Bereavement Care

A PRESENTATION FROM:
Mental Health First Aid England

Event Organiser:

 
ELAINE RIDLEY
Public Sector Development Manager
Finders International

For those with hearing impairments, we can provide a subtitled version of the event., We can also provide translated subtitles in your chosen language. To request this, please contact us at: [email protected]

This event is CPD accredited, and contributes to 1 hour of CPD.

If you have watched this event, we would love your feedback. Please click here to leave us some feedback.
For every feedback form filled, we will donate £1 to our chosen charities – Age UK & Young Minds.

For those with hearing impairments, we can provide a subtitled version of the event., We can also provide translated subtitles in your chosen language. To request this, please contact us at: [email protected]

This event is CPD accredited, and contributes to 1 hour of CPD.

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Health Funeral Information Service (PHFIS) is moving the live PHA Funerals event online! For the first PHA Funerals E-Conference, we will be discussing topics in association with ‘Pauper’s Funerals’, most relevant to the current health crisis.

Covering subjects such as:

• Crematorium and Cemeteries during the COVID-19 pandemic
• The Medical Examiner System – COVID-19 adjustments
• Research insight into the social management of lone deaths
• How to cope with life under lockdown
• How can Finders International help you?
• And many others…

Our speakers:

DR METTE RODGERS
Regional Medical Examiner for London
NHS: National Medical Examiner System

JULIE DUNK
Chief Executive
Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM)

GLENYS CASWELL
Senior Research Fellow
Nottingham University

AMY HOBSON
Managing Director
Wellbeing Collective

DAVID LOCKWOOD
Public Sector Development Manager
Finders International