Welcome to the Placement Learning Support Portal

Welcome to the Placement Learning Unit.

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Clinical placements are integral to your course and make up 50 per cent of your time. You will experience a wide range of healthcare practice in both the community and hospital settings.

The focus of your placements will depend on your chosen profession and specialism. You will experience the 24-hour nature of care and gain an understanding of your patients' or clients' journey. You will work with a wide range of nursing and midwifery practitioners and members of the multiprofessional team.

Your allocation to practice will vary depending on your chosen course.

Placement providers

The university has excellent relationships with local healthcare providers. Student placements are organised around the following geographical areas:

  • Hastings and Eastbourne
  • Brighton and Haywards Heath
  • Worthing

from http://ljmu.ac.uk/HEA/plsu/index.htm- so needs amending

Welcome to the Placement Learning Support section which aims to provide support to both students whilst they are out on placements and colleagues who supervise our students whilst they are gaining valuable practice experience.

The Practice Learning Support Unit (PLSU) is a dedicated unit that provides administrative and academic support for practice related learning within the Faculty of Health and Applied Social Science across a range of Professional Programmes where practice learning is a curriculum requirement.

Students undertake learning in practice settings appropriate to their curriculum learning outcomes, professional body requirements and placement availability. PLSU works in close collaboration with Practice Partners to identify the most suitable placements that can offer maximum potential for student learning. Placements are currently provided by NHS Trusts, Social Care and Social Services, or the Private, Independent and Voluntary Sector across the North West of England.

 

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Useful Links:

HPC Health Professions Council

RCCP- Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists

IBMS- Institute of Biomedical Science

ARTP- Association for Respiratory Physiology and Technology

SCST- Society for Cardiological Science and Technology ANS- Association of Neurophysiological Scientists GSCC General Social Care Council NMC Nursing and Midwifery Council

 

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Practice Learning Unit

The Practice Learning Unit (PLU) has been in effect since April 2004 as part of the SLIP (Student Learning In Practice) project. The Unit is the key interface between the School of Health and Social Care and the South West Strategic Health Authority and the National Health Service and Primary Care Trusts and other organisations that provide practice placements for students pursuing careers in the health care service.

Partnership working in this way allows for identifying and developing new opportunities for practice experience in order to achieve fit for purpose and fit for practice requirements of the modern health care services.

The Practice Learning Unit is at the heart of University of the West of England,  Health and Social Care’s commitment to high quality practice education.

The Unit is developing to centralise placement activity ensuring that all students are exposed to high quality practice placements through efficient and effective operational systems, strategic leadership and quality assurances processes.

The Practice Learning Unit aims;

  • To provide a co-ordinated service that accesses a range of placements within the University catchment area, that supports the practice requirements of pre-qualifying programmes in order to produce, at the point of registration, practitioners fit for purpose and practice.
  • To meet the needs of the key stakeholders (including professional bodies), students, placement providers and curricula.
  • To provide quality assured placements, through a service and education partnership to audit and evaluation.

The Practice Learning Unit administratively managed by Bob Phillips, the Practice Learning Unit is currently responsible for the organisation of practice placements for all nursing, midwifery, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging students in the Health and Social Care in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. This involves liaison with the practice placements, allocation of students to those placement areas and tracking and monitoring of student’s progress.

The Unit is also responsible for the administration and management of the Educational Audit process for practice placements accessed by Nursing, Midwifery, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Radiotherapy and Diagnostic Imaging students. This involves the maintenance of the audit visit timetables, the logging of results via the quality audit system and the production of reports for dissemination to the appropriate members of academic staff, and our partners in the National Health Service (NHS), Primary Care (PCT) Trusts and other Independent and Voluntary Sector (IVS) organisations.