Develop your teaching skills with our innovative new course, designed specifically for healthcare staff who teach others - whether that's peers, students, or teams, and whether teaching is a regular or occasional part of your role. Rooted in practical application, this course will equip you with essential skills such as planning, delivery, and evaluation, while deepening your understanding of contemporary theories of learning.
Tailored to meet the needs of today’s educators, the course covers topics like online facilitation, neurodiverse learning needs, and strategies for teaching small and large groups effectively.
Before the course:
You’ll complete two short learning-style questionnaires, exploring your personal learning style.
During the course:
20th & 21st of November 2025.
Over two face-to-face taught days, you'll explore topics including:
- Contemporary theories of learning
- Gamification
- Learning styles and neurodiversity
- The logistics of teaching
- Skills for online facilitation
- Planning, delivering, and evaluating teaching sessions
You will also take part in micro-teaching exercises, both face-to-face and online, engaging with the concepts you have learnt and practicing their application.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the sessions, participants will:
- Develop skills to teach a variety of groups or individuals flexibly.
- Demonstrate ways to meet diverse learning needs.
- Gain awareness of contemporary educational theory.
- Understand how to support neurodiverse learners.
- Enhance their abilities as thoughtful teachers and facilitators.
EARLY BIRD PRICE! 10% OFF until 16th October 2025
After the course:
Wednesday 26th of February 2026, 9am-11am
During this two-hour online session, you will have an opportunity to reconnect with peers and reflect on your experiences.
For staff working in Cancer Services this course has been mapped to ACCEND capabilities. Click here for further information
Location: Face-to-Face (Oxford)
CPD Credits:
+ Venue
Oxford Centre for Education & Research in Palliative Care,
Sobell House Hospice, Churchill Hospital,
Oxford,
OX3 7LE
+ Speakers
Melinda Presland - Consultant Pharmacist, Palliative & End of Life Care, Oxford University Hospitals
Melinda qualified from the University of Bradford in 2005, and has worked in many sectors of pharmacy including community, mental health and the prison service. Melinda started her specialist palliative care career in 2009 in a Macmillan palliative care team, focused on providing pharmaceutical support to patients in the primary care setting. Melinda moved to her Consultant Pharmacist post in Oxford in 2019 where she continues to work. Melinda has worked as Senior Clinical Lead in palliative care for NHSE/I, and is chair person of the Association of Supportive and Palliative Care Pharmacy (ASPCP) and is co-lead for the Ambitions Partnership.
Melinda is a qualified non-medical prescriber, and has a Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education, which supports her in her passion for planning and delivery of education, both to pharmacists and other health care professionals.
Professor Bee Wee CBE
Professor Bee Wee is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine in Oxford. She was National Clinical Director for Palliative and End of Life Care at NHS England between 2013-2023. In that role, she provided strategic leadership for palliative and end of life care across England and co-chaired the Ambitions Partnership for Palliative and End of Life Care which has 34 national partners across health, social care and voluntary sector. In 2025, she was a member of the Commission on Palliative and End of Life Care. She was awarded the Presidential Medal by the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare for academic, policy and clinical contributions to person centred healthcare in 2017, an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Oxford Brookes University in 2018, and a CBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2020 for services to palliative and end of life care.
Bee’s track record as an educator spans across clinical and academic settings. She was Deputy Director of Education for the medical school in Southampton, then Associate Director at Oxford Medical School. Between 2003-7, she was a UK Faculty Tutor on the ASME/Harvard Macey Education Leadership residential course. She was lead editor for the textbook ‘Education in palliative care: building a culture of learning’. She holds a Masters in Education (Professional Enquiry) from University of Winchester. She has extensive experience of hands-on teaching as well as developing and mentoring others as teachers and educational leaders. Currently she sits on the Board of Delegates for Oxford University Press, representing medicine on behalf of Oxford University.
+ Course Programmes
Programme will include:
>Learning theories using personal analysis
>Learner needs: neurodiversity etc
>Planning, delivering & evaluating teaching
>Opportunities for microteachings, both face to face and online
>Skills for online teaching
>Logistics
>Gamification
+ Course Aims
Learning Objectives
By the end of the sessions, participants will:
• Develop skills to teach a variety of groups or individuals flexibly.
• Demonstrate ways to meet diverse learning needs.
• Gain awareness of contemporary educational theory.
• Understand how to support neurodiverse learners.
• Enhance their abilities as thoughtful teachers and facilitators.
