Information for placement partners

Placement experiences  are a vital factor in promoting understanding and development of professional craft knowledge. They help students become fit for practice, fit for purpose and fit for award by the time they complete their programme.

Placements constitute 50% of each Nursing student's programme and 60% of each Midwifery student's programme.

Each placement provides students with educational opportunities to develop their professional craft knowledge through:

• observing good practice
• engaging in good practice alongside a mentor and other practitioners
• practising under the more distant supervision of a mentor or other practitioner.

Students also have time to investigate their practice, to study their patients/clients and their carers, to discuss their learning with experienced colleagues and to formulate and reformulate their understanding through writing, discussion and reading.

• Student Placement Approval (NMC Educational audit form)

Practice Assessment Documents

Practice Assessment Documents (PAD/ePAD) for Nursing are available from the Pan London Practice Learning Group (PLPLG)

We recommend that if you are part of a service outside of Greater London (i.e. Sussex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Kent etc.) you liaise with us directly as to which cohort has students in your area.

• City SLT Placements at a Glance 2024-25

How to make a placement offer

Please submit your offer via the UCL and City University Placement Partnership: SLT Clinical Placement Offers 2024/25 webform.

Please kindly submit your placement offer(s) as soon as possible.

On completion, a copy of the offer is emailed to you so you will have a record. Once your offer is submitted it will be automatically used for allocating students to at the relevant time.

In the event of any service changes, placement providers should contact clinicalplacements@city.ac.uk as soon as possible. This includes change in named Practice Educator, placement location, and placement day/dates.

There is an understanding that providers will honour placement offers once made, even if changes to the detail of the offer become necessary (for example, due to changes in staffing).

Please see below 2024-25 placement blocks which still require offers:

• Autumn-Spring (two-terms): B2A, B3A, M2A
• Spring-Summer (two-terms): M1A, MSLTB
• Summer (one-term): B1A, B2B, B3B, M2B

Placement dates for these blocks and further details can be found in the City SLT Placements at a Glance 2024-25 document.

We request all offers to be receive by the date set, as this will enable us to have the offers in on time to allocate the placements and notify providers as soon as we can.

If there is a delay in sending your offers to us, please do let us know and we make a note of this/ discuss any relevant information via email.

Welcome to the resource section for clinical departments providing practice placements for:

• Undergraduate diagnostic students
• Undergraduate radiotherapy students

If you require any further information please contact the lecturer responsible for supporting students at your site.

• National Partnership Agreement between Education Providers and NHS Trusts and other organisations involved in the provision of practice learning experiences
• Learning contract
• Extenuating circumstances form
• Cause for concern form
• Recurring site signing in sheet
• Non-recurring site signing in sheet
• Occupational health checks

Assessment Guidelines and Forms

• Diagnostic & Therapeutic Clinical Placement Agreement 2010
• 3rd Year Clinical Supervisor Sheet
• 3rd Year Assessment Film Radiograph Marking Sheet

We aim to enhance the student experience, by equipping our students with the tools required to bridge the gap between education and employment.

• Source internships and placements
• Educate about employability
• Professional Development planning
• Enrich programme content with industry input
• Organise specialist events
• Connect academia with industry.

There are many advantages of recruiting a placement student or intern from City. We provide comprehensive guidelines and additional support throughout the placement process from conception to completion.

Placements are fixed term and there is no requirement for you to offer work extending past this period. Placement students and interns offer a valuable resource for a fraction of the cost of a graduate.

Our students will bring high level technical skills, knowledge, enthusiasm, objectivity and new ideas to your organisation. Hiring a student will allow you to build stronger, mutually beneficial links with academia and the world class research at City, University of London.

• Support from the CREU
• No long term obligation
• Cost effective
• Complete specific project work
• Build links with academia
• Objectivity, creativity and new ideas.

I wholeheartedly recommend City, University of London to companies seeking talented students to hire.

As the Director of Culture Hint, the leading optimization platform for venues, districts, and cities, I have had the pleasure of hiring students from City, University of London.

The skills they acquired during their studies were instrumental in their success at our company. In fact, their contributions were so remarkable that a student who started as an intern is now our Software Architect.

We offer a number of pathways in which a student can undertake some form of work-based learning.

• One-year sandwich placements – All undergraduates are encouraged to complete a one-year placement or summer internship as part of their course
• Professional Pathway Scheme - Unique to City, this initiative allows an undergraduate to work for up to four days a week whilst completing their degree
• Postgraduate internship scheme - Postgraduate students are encouraged to complete an internship as part of their dissertation.

The CREU is always keen to hear from employers that are interested in discussing alternative pathways for students to undertake professional experience, including opportunities for project work.

The CREU supports students and employers throughout the placement to make sure that both parties are benefiting effectively from the experience. We provide comprehensive guidelines and additional support throughout the placement process from conception to completion.

Each placement student is assigned a work-based learning advisor (WLA) who will provide assistance throughout the duration of the placement by visiting the workplace and ensuring that both the student and placement provider are meeting the pre-agreed deliverables.