Welcome to the Sheffield Hallam University Social Work practice placement site

This site has been developed to provide easily accessible information about supervision, support, assessment and all the placement processes for learners and their supervisors and assessors. Contact details are available for the Social Work placement team if you require more information and /or support please refer to the 'Team & Contact Details' link within each course site.

Students are advised that they must follow their placement provider's policies and guidelines at all times while on placement.

Contacting the Social Work and Social Care Team

If you need to contact a member of the Social Work and Social Care Team, you can find email and telephone contact details here.

Covid-19 Advice

Students are advised that they must follow their placement provider's policies and guidelines at all times while on placement in relation to Covid processes and reporting.  This includes adhering to your placement provider's guidance on Covid testing, contact tracing and reporting, in addition to meticulous hand hygiene and use of PPE. Please be mindful of how your actions outside placement could put yourself, your colleagues and service users at risk - use face coverings, maintain social distance and reduce contacts outside your household in accordance with current government advice.

If you attend your placement while you have symptoms of covid-19 you will put service users/ clients/ patients and staff at risk of Covid-19 infection.  Please read the requirements for safe practice and avoiding harm to service users/ clients/ patients in the professional codes of conduct and ethics for your future profession: Social Work England (link to external website)

• You can find advice here from the UK Government on Living safely with respiratory infections, including COVID-19. (link to external website).
• If you have symptoms of covid-19 (link to external website), or a positive lateral flow test, or suspect that you may have covid-19, YOU MUST NOT ATTEND YOUR PLACEMENT.
  
  
• Please refer to the UK Health Security Agency Guidance - COVID-19: Managing healthcare staff with symptoms of a respiratory infection.
• Please refer to UK Department of Health and Social Care - Infection prevention and control in adult social care settings

• You can find guidance here from the NHS on Testing for Coronavirus (COVID-19). (link to external website)

Students are advised that they must follow their placement provider's policies and guidelines at all times while on placement in relation to Covid processes and reporting. This includes adhering to your placement provider's guidance on Covid testing, contact tracing and reporting, in addition to meticulous hand hygiene and use of PPE.   

Covid-19 Immunisations - Important advice for all students in relation to placement learning

A significant number of our placement providers expect their staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and these placements require all students who attend placement in their organisation also to be fully vaccinated. Any delays in ensuring that you are fully vaccinated could prevent you from commencing a placement.

Book your coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccination.