In preparing for placement learning, students must read all the information on this page
Practical work experience is at the heart of all SHU courses and is delivered through placements in relevant workplaces. We work in partnership with NHS Trusts, Local Authorities and many private, independent and voluntary sector providers to provide the required experience for our students.
Your placement attendance, learning and practice will be an assessed part of your course. On placement, you work with experts, professionals and service users gaining experience, and developing your knowledge and skills for people with a wide range of health and social care needs.
You will develop your confidence in using your core skills in traditional and emerging areas of practice; enhancing your employability on completion of the course. During your time on placement, your experience will reflect the working times of the team you work with on placement.
This page provides students and placement provider partners with key information needed to prepare for and get the most out of practical work experience. Follow the link below to find shared information to help any student approach preparation for placement from a learning perspective. Within these profession specific pages, you will find more focused support and guidance for your subject area.
Professional Requirements
Preparation for Practice Learning - Mandatory Requirements
You must complete the mandatory requirements successfully before commencing placement.
Placement Planning Life Cycle (Nursing placements)
Student Guidance
Important - you must familiarise yourself with the following policies and guidance, held in the Policy Library/Student Guidance Policies section of this website (Link to Sheffield Hallam University webpage).
- Reporting Incidents, Accidents or Concerns
- Health and Safety
- Data Protection
- Inclusivity
- Staying Safe
- Working Hours
- Travel
- Dress code
Induction to your Allocated Placement
As soon as you have received confirmation of your allocated placement, you must check communications including emails from your placement provider or the university's Professional Placement Team informing you of the date, time and location of your placement induction event.
Students must attend the placement provider's induction event in order to continue on their allocated placement. If you are unable to attend for any reason you must inform your placement provider and the university's Professional Placement Team using your university email address before the scheduled event.
Assessment of Practice Documentation
As a student it is your responsibility to familiarise yourself with your assessment of practice documentation - MYEPAD - and practice learning outcomes for the placements you attend. This will help you to plan for and document your placement learning opportunities and support your practise supervisors and assessors to provide you with feedback using MYEPAD appropriately.
You must document in MYEPAD all hours you attend on your placement and have these verified by your practice supervisor or other registered professional you work with on your shifts.
PARE (Nursing placements)
You must familiarise yourself with PARE and ensure that you can align your allocated placements to your PARE profile. PARE provides useful information about your placement to help you to prepare for your placement learning experience.
Student Placement Learning Evaluations
The university will invite you to complete a placement learning evaluation which you must submit when you complete each of your placement learning experiences.
For your Nursing placements, PARE provides you with a placement learning evaluation survey (NETS); for your Social Work placements, you will be sent a link to the placement learning evaluation administered by the university. Further information is provided on the Evaluation page on this website.
Course Overview
- Nursing and Social work course overview
Students attend 30 Social Work Skills Days during the programme. These are under continual review in order to ensure that the content of the Skills Days reflects contemporary Social Work practice priorities. In each of the three academic years 10 skills days are interwoven with the students' Practice Learning Experiences.
Supernumerary Status
