PEPA placements are currently available with specialist palliative care services in Queensland for the period to 30th June 2012. Some funding is available to employers for backfill, and applicants for travel and accommodation.
Context:
“Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.”
The Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA) is a national program established to provide health care workers with an opportunity to develop skills in the palliative approach by participating in workshops or undertaking a workforce placement with a specialist palliative care service (host site) within a metropolitan or larger peri-urban service. PEPA is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing through the National Palliative Care Program.
The PEPA learning experience is to help you:
Please click on the following links for application form and further information
For further details, contact 07 3636 6216 or pepaqld@health.qld.gov.au