Practice Placements
Welcome to the Practice Placements section of the School website
The Practice Placements team manages and organises placements for all under-graduate students in the School of Health, Community and Education Studies – this includes Nurses, Midwives, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Primary and Secondary Education Teachers.
Placements represent a vital element of training and in most cases, accounts for 50% of the training programme itself. In all, we manage approximately 8000 placements each year, and have over 1000 placement areas on our books. As you can imagine, this requires a substantial level of planning and negotiation with a large number of stakeholders, including NHS Hospital and Primary Care Trusts, Nursing Homes, Schools, Social Work units/partner agencies and the private and voluntary sector.
We have a dedicated team of Administrators, each of whom have responsibility for a different programme, and branch of nursing. Full details of who to contact should you have a placement related enquiry can be obtained on our Contact Page. The placements team is located in room B104 at Coach Lane Campus (West).
Our aim is to deliver an excellent level of customer service and an important part of this is to ensure and enhance the quality of all ‘practice placements’. We work closely with our placement partners to achieve this, through, for example, regular audit of each placement area, who are rigorously examined against Professional Body standards/requirements and we are committed to meeting the challenges of ‘Duty of Care’ by ensuring robust policies and procedures are in place to support students in practice.
Our website pages have been divided up into separate sections that cover key topics, eg, ‘Policies and Procedures’ and ‘Inter-professional Learning in Practice’. Where information is specific to a particular group of users, we have created a section specific to them, eg, ‘Information for Students’, and ‘Information for Mentors’ –
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are unable to find the information you came looking for.
