UON Placement quality assurance processes are in place to ensure sustainability of placement providers and to ensure all information is captured in relation to quality assurance.
All practice educators must have received practice educator training prior to supporting a student on placement. This can occur via the options below:
- Ideally, all educators will attend the ‘New educator training’ provided by UON that occurs every September and April.
- If an educator has not attended our training, but has attended practice educator training by another HEI, the following process must occur.
(2a) At the point of a practice area offering a placement, the placement team must be advised on the practice educator details and confirmation of the date that they attended their initial practice educator training at another HEI. This information will be recorded on our internal system. This is to ensure we meet the HCPC quality assurance processes.
2b) A member of the physiotherapy placements team will communicate with the educator prior to a student arriving on placement to have an initial supervision session to clarify the following:
- Student expectations
- Marking criteria
- Use of PebblePad
The visiting tutor will also allow extra time at the halfway meeting to support the marking and feedback/action plan.
As part of our quality assurance processes to promote educational excellence in practice, it is a minimum requirement for all educators supporting students on placement to complete the New UON Educator Training and then attend update training every two years** to maintain your Practice Educator status with us.
Resources for practice educators
This page will include resources that the Physiotherapy team at UON have produced to support educators. As well as resources produced during the activities completed within the educator training sessions.
We have included a resource on possible placement activity examples: Placement-Activity-Examples
Additional thoughts from educators regarding different supervision models: supervision-models
Fitness to practice
Please see the link to the fitness to practice Padlet with practice educators’ contributions. The Physiotherapy team has also included the approach taken, support systems in place and student activities to explore this concept: https://uon1.padlet.org/marianhepburnbarnes1/sxygbp29dynbgokg
The agreed expectations of the student, educator and UON with regards to practice placements: The-agreed-expectations-for-practice-placements (1)
Case scenarios – Please see attached examples of scenarios and how practice educators and the university would approach them, and the decisions made: Student-Scenarios-with-answers