Wellbeing and Supportive care

Our Wellbeing and Supportive Care Team aim to empower adults living with a palliative life 
limiting condition and support their families and carers.  

Our support is tailored to your individual needs to help you and those closest to you to manage the impact of your illness.  We promote physical, emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing:

  • To help enable you to make choices about your current and future care. 
  • To help you manage your symptoms.  
  • To help you develop coping strategies and to obtain skills, knowledge, and confidence. 
  • To help you remain as independent as possible.
  • To help enable you to live as full a life as possible and to help make every moment count.

Our Wellbeing and Supportive Care sessions run from Monday to Thursday with a varied timetable.

Our team is made up of Registered Nurses, a Nursing Assistant, an Assistant Practitioner, a Creative Therapist, a Complementary Therapist and a brilliant group of volunteers. 

More information is available in our leaflet here

We also offer sessions in the community

Find out more HERE

Nina with patient

We offer:

Self-Management Support Sessions

Teaches strategies which can help you to take control of your symptoms.
Sessions include fatigue, anxiety, breathlessness, sleep, pain, fall prevention and the importance of staying active, gastrointestinal problems and nutrition and planning for the future.
Complementary therapies appointments are also available. 
To book onto a Self Management Session, please download the booking form below and email a completed copy to our Wellbeing and Supportive Care team at wellbeing@springhill.org.uk. 

More information is available in our leaflet here

Self Management Booking Form

Wellbeing Group Programme 

We have a varied timetable of uplifting and relaxing activities including: quizzes and games, arts and crafts, gardening, spiritual support,
discussion groups, relaxation sessions, armchair exercises and singing and music. Complementary therapies appointments are also available.

More information is available in our leaflet here

Creative Therapies

Our Creative Therapies include a wide range of activities available to both our In-Patients and Day Therapies patients.

Activities include Art and Crafts and Therapeutic Group Work which are co-ordinated by our Creative Therapist, supported by a dedicated team of volunteers. 

Therapeutic Group work is stimulating and dynamic, reminding our patients that they are people and not just an illness. We help them to see themselves as individuals and not just patients.  

We encourage patients to get involved and experience the different activities available because it enhances wellbeing and social skills, helps rediscover their creative side and is fun!

How do creative therapies help?

Creating art and self-expression through colour and other media is enriching and therapeutic, creating the opportunity to learn and develop new skills and hobbies, provoking a real sense of ‘can do’. Each piece of art work is lovingly created and treasured, often becoming a family heirloom.

Many of our patients have a level of disability which impacts and limits their dexterity and level of social engagement. Working in a group encourages talking, laughing and distraction from their worries and concerns. 

Complementary Therapies

Relaxation, reducing stress and promoting wellbeing are important for our patients and their relatives. Complementary therapies are offered to our Inpatients and Wellbeing patients every day, as well as their carers. We are also able to offer therapies to relatives if therapists have availability on the day. We do not offer complementary therapies to people outside of Hospice care.

Complementary Therapies may help patients with symptom control including nausea, pain, fatigue, stress, anxiety and sleeping difficulties.

We offer a range of therapies and treatments, including:

  •  Aromatherapy
  • Massage
  • Indian Head Massage
  • HEARTS Process
  • Reiki

More information is available in our leaflet here

How to take part

If any of our groups are of interest to you; please contact your Health Care Professional to make a referral.

We accept referrals for adults in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale with a diagnosed palliative life limiting condition. 

We encourage people to make their own way to Springhill Hospice but if this isn’t possible, we are able to offer transport to and from Wellbeing and Supportive Care thanks to our team of volunteer drivers. Volunteer drivers are subject to risk assessment.

For further information please contact us on 01706 649920.
Or email wellbeing@springhill.org.uk

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