TRAINING REQUIREMENTS
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.
New Educator training is aimed at clinicians that do not have any experience supporting students or those educators that have supported students alongside a lead educator and would now like to transition to the lead educator to support UON students.
Established educator training is aimed at educators in practice who already have experience supporting physiotherapy students and will discuss some key concepts, challenges and areas for development/support. The agenda for conversations will change dependent on practice and student feedback. The aim is to support the development of practice educators and their confidence in supporting students, working together to share best practice.
Ideally, all educators will attend the ‘New educator training’ provided by UON that occurs every September and April. Then, if an educator has not attended our training, but has attended practice educator training by another HEI, the following process must occur.
- 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.
- 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.
TRAINING DATES – to follow
Resources for practice educators
This section includes 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.
PEBBLEPAD GUIDANCE
PebblePad Instructional Video for Educators
PebblePad is used by the students to log their progress. Each course has its own document, but this page provides general information for Practice Educators.
https://mypad.northampton.ac.uk/placements/pebblepad-support/
How to get a mentor account | Placements (northampton.ac.uk)
A student can share with multiple people on placement, all of whom can contribute towards the workbook, however final sign off has to come from the practice assessor.
How to share the workbook: https://askus.northampton.ac.uk/Learntech/faq/188670
If it still does not work, student will need to contact LearnTech via the below form: https://askus.northampton.ac.uk/form?queue_id=2295
CPAF MARKING CRITERIA
We use the Level 6 Common Placement Assessment Form (CPAF) for all placements.
Placements 1 and 2 (PHY3002P and PHY3003P) are both 5-week placements and are assessed as Pass/Fail. The pass mark is 40%
Placements 3-5 (PHY3004P, PHYM007P and PHYM008P) are 6 weeks, 7 weeks and 6 weeks respectively and are assessed as Pass/Fail. The pass mark is 50%
CSP Website with videos relating to CPAF
Recent resources and new forms available to view from today:
Included on the page are:
- The three new forms
- A summary of what has changed
- A presentation you can use to update practice educators
- Links to a webinar which explains LD 6 more fully.
ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENTS – STUDENT FEEDBACK
Our students have been involved in ‘alternative placement models’. There are many positives to be gained for practice and for the students with the emerging ideas of different placement types and a different structure to placements. If you would like to discuss the possibilities of facilitating student placements in your organisation, please contact fiona.barrett@northampton.ac.uk
Please see the links below to view their feedback/reflections.
Student-Placement-Experience-Form1
Student-Placement-Experience-Form2
Student-Placement-Experience-Form3
We have included a resource on possible placement activity examples: Placement-Activity-Examples
Additional thoughts from educators regarding different supervision models: supervision-models
Kettering General Hospital – 10 things to know
Examples of information provided to students.
10 things physio elective ortho
10 things surgery – physio
10 things trauma physio
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