Placement Information
Multi-professional placements in PCNs
(Growing multi-professional learning environments in Devon’s Primary Care Networks)Student Paramedic Placement Project
(South West Regional Paramedic Deep Dive)
Devon requires more people working in healthcare roles to meet the care demands in the coming years. However, we face significant workforce challenges in primary care with an ageing workforce and recruitment difficulties. We therefore need to support the workforce pipeline. This means more students and more placement opportunities for nursing, allied health profession, pharmacy students and others. Devon Training Hub is working collaboratively across professions, universities, professional bodies, and stakeholders to address the historical lack of student exposure to primary care and placement capacity.
So, how might your practice benefit from facilitating student placements?
- Exposure to Primary Care as students will improve workforce pipeline
- Opportunity to influence future clinical workforce and their practice
- CPD opportunity for staff, encourages reflection on practice
- Financial reimbursement – approx. £120 pw per student
- Increases learners’ understanding of Primary Care
- Mutual learning – from and with students
- Provides closer working links to other areas of practice, promoting inter-professional learning
- Can be energising and fun!
If you would like to know more about facilitating student placements, please contact Stacey Owen , Programme Manager, s.owen10@nhs.net.
The aim of this project is to create and test multi-professional learning environments for Allied Health Profession (AHP) and nursing students in Devon’s PCNs. The project will continue the work commenced within the scope of the CPEP’s Collaborative Supervision Model pilot and link closely to the developmental work of the Learning and Development Centre’s work relating to the creation of new Approved Learning Organisations.
The plan is to undertake pilots within Primary Care through two models. The first model is the traditional placement model, where learners from different professions will work together within a PCN on a project, such as a case study. The second model is a Health and Wellbeing clinic, where multiple learners from different professions will work together to provide patients within a PCN the opportunity to attend a health and wellbeing clinic. Students will be supervised by an onsite supervisor or a Long Arm Supervisor. The rationale for these models are that health professionals benefit from learning from and with each other in order to understand their differing roles within an integrated care system.
Any PCNs who are interested in being part of these exciting pilots, please contact Stacey Owen on s.owen10@nhs.net or 07493730888
The aim of this project is to have paramedic students across all years, undertake placements in a diverse range of the South West’s community care services, including social care and primary care. Paramedic students will participate in multi-professional learning teams using a coaching model of learning, e.g., Collaborative Learning in Practice (CLIP).
The objectives of this project will be to scope, develop, and evaluate new and enhancing placements that have been piloted by University of Plymouth and UWE Bristol Students in collaboration with regional partners to include HEE SW Paramedic System Relationship managers, HEE Clinical Placement Lead and National Training and Education Lead for Paramedicine, South West HEIs, HEE AHP Faculties, SWASFT, Representatives from Devon’s community services.
Stacey Owen and Niamh McCabe started the project in Feb 2023 and so far worked in collaboration with 2 HEI’s and had 17students undertake placements in 8 new services, with 3 more services lined up to take 6 more paramedic students before the end of the project. Feedback from students has been really positive. One student undertook her placement at a CAMHS Inpatient Unit and she said “ On reflection and now I am back out on frontline placement, I definitely feel more confident when dealing with mental health patients and conditions and feel that I have gained a better understanding of pathways and treatments available. Since being back out on the road I have encountered various different mental health conditions and feel that my communication skills have improved, such as, what not to say and what to say to patients”.
For any questions or queries regarding this project or to hear what and how we have been doing this, please contact Stacey Owen on s.owen10@nhs.net or 07493730888
