We know that educators are used to delivering the traditional 1:1 / student: educator model and may be worried about trying something new but we want to reassure you that, as long as students can meet their learning outcomes and continue to meet professional and regulatory body standards, you can offer practice learning models in any way that meet you and your service’s needs. Please do talk to us if you are unsure about whether your idea is viable  but we are open to your creative ideas.

• Practice based learning is explored and explained by Heath Education England on the following site: AHP practice based learning
  
  
• This PDF document explores Supporting the Development of Placements for Allied Health Professional Students in Public Health Settings: A Toolkit for organisations working within the public health arena, by HEE: HEE Toolkit
  
  
• The video below is of a Health Education England (HEE) webinar that took place to promote the different types of placement model:
  
  
  
  Whilst it is useful to watch the whole recording, we have highlighted here the main topics covered and where these can be found within the video:
  
  What Makes a high quality learning environment: 4:00 to 5:34
  1:1 Traditional Model 5:40 to 6:33
  2:1/3:1/Team Model: 7:35 to 9:25
  Split Placements: 9:30 to 10:12
  Learning Environments/Collaborative Learning Approach (Clip): 10:13 to 13:33
  Extended Days: 13:40 to 14:55
  Technology Enabled Care (Tecs) Placement 15:20 to 16:41
  Summary: 17:20 to 18:29
  
  Questions and answers:
  
  How do you best match students? 18:30 to 19:43
  Barriers to overcome additional placement paperwork? 19:43 to 21:13
  TECS placement barrier: 22:30 to 24:03
  Overcoming Barriers on Community Visits on placement: 24:50 to 26:10

Alternative Placement Models

• Here is another useful document with links to a webinar of alternative placement models:
  
  

Addressing placement barriers

• AHP Leader Rachel Moses has created this webinar with 5 min presentations on different ways that Trusts have responded to Covid placement barriers and placement expansion:
  
  
  
  

  It incudes the following presentations:
   

  • 2:1 models (1.05)
  • Research placements (10.58 and 1.00)
  • Transformation of place based learning (15.15)
  • Running groups on zoom (25.39)
  • Remote days, split days (35.44)
  • 8 students rotating in pairs around clinical session, taught sessions and self directed learning (30.39 and 45.55)
  • Simulated assessment (51.15)
  • Peer assisted learning (1.07:15)

Papers

• A mapping review of models of practice education in allied health and social care professions

These are opportunities that have not been established yet and are ideas to support students in new areas or approaches. These can be cross discipline and away from the historical approach.

• Setting up a role emerging placement within OT
  
  
• Challenges experienced by OT student in Role emerging placements
  
  
• Video exploring role emerging placements:
  
  
  
  
• Diverse Work Placements in Occupational Therapy

Papers

• From trepidation to transformation: Strategies used by occupational therapy students on role-emerging placements 
  
  
• Uncharted Waters’: Challenges experienced by Occupational Therapy Students undertaking Role-emerging Placements
  
  
• Developing an authentic professional identity on role-emerging placements
  
  
• Role emerging placements: a useful model for occupational therapy? A literature review
  
  
• Role emerging placements demonstrate improvements in students’ knowledge and confidence on the impact of health inequalities
  
  
• The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy provide an example of a REP’s

• The following video discusses the expansion of AHP placement opportunities:
  
  
  
  
• The following link discusses the Digital framework for AHP's from NHS England: A digital framework for AHPs

• HEE have produced a useful guide to AHP use of Telemedicine in regards to placements: AHP Technology Enabled Care
  Services (TECS) Practice Based Learning Guide
  
  
• Royal College of Occupational Therapists’ guidance and examples of remote placements
  
  
• Example from Leeds Beckett University of delivering remote placements: Delivering occupational therapy placements online
  
  
• Connect Health have provided a wealth of remote Telehealth placement opportunities for physiotherapy students: Virtual student placements
  
  
• The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists provide useful examples of Telehealth placements: Practice-based learning

Papers

• Implementation & improvement of a virtual student placement model
  
  
• Evaluation of Pragmatic Telehealth
  
  
• Virtual Reality
  
  
• Applying Digital Technology

A 2021 paper show the work they have been doing on placement capacity: Ensuring an Essential Supply of Allied Health
Professions (AHP) Placements

Peer learning is the learning from other learners, who support each other and can be applied cross discipline, forming Multi-Disciplinary Teams.

• The Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education
  
  
• The Sussex AHP Faculty have created this really useful toolkit for educators and students considering a 2:1 placement: Facilitating a 2:1 Placement
  
  
• The University of Brighton have produced a PowerPoint explaining Models of placement provision: Multi student placement models

Collaborative Learning In Practice (CLIP) / Coaching and Peer Assisted Learning (C-PEL)

This is a system whereby multiple learners are placed together in a stable environment to work as a team and offer peer support.

• Exploring the CLiP Model
  
  
• HEE presentation and info about CLIP in conjunction with James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: The Journey of Collaborative Learning In Practice (CLiP) at JPUH
  
  
• Details and information form the RCN: A Collaborative Learning in Practice style approach to increasing student nurse capacity
  
  
• Collaborative learning in practice (CLiP) model in a Mental Health Nursing Placement video:
  
  
  
  
• Salisbury Hospital Education team have created these two videos to show CLIP in practice:
  
  
  
  

Papers

• 2:1 Peer supervision
  
  
• The time is now to upscale all placements to a minimum of two student
  
  
• Peer Learning and collaborative placement models in health care: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis of the literature
  
  
• Physiotherapy students and clinical educators perceive several ways in which incorporating peer-assisted learning could improve clinical placements: a qualitative study
  
  
• Student Perspectives On Peer Learning: From ‘Genius Friends’ To ‘Learning Twice
  
  
• Peer Interactions and Their Benefits during Occupational Therapy Practice Placement Education 
  
  
• Evaluating Practice Education Models in Occupational Therapy
  
  
• Collaborative Learning in Practice (CLIP): Evaluation of a new approach to clinical learning
  
  
• Thinking like a nurse’. Changing the culture of nursing students’ clinical learning: Implementing collaborative learning in practice 
  
  
• Satisfaction with clinical placement–The perspective of nursing students from multiple universities
  
  
• Collaborative learning: Application of the mentorship model for adult nursing students in the acute placement setting
  
  
• A Peer-Led Interprofessional Simulation Experience Improves Perception Of Teamwork
  
  
• Gaining interprofessional knowledge and interprofessional competence on a training ward 
   
• Learning to work collaboratively: Nurses’ views of their pre-registration interprofessional education and its impact on practice

These are being offered more, with the fact that it’s a pillar of advanced practice. Alongside opportunities in research environments as well. These can help inspire future leaders and researchers from our student workforce.

• HS England and The Council Of Deans have produced this document: The clinical leadership story
  
  
• The Sussex ICS have created this really useful workbook to help structure and induct students for leadership placements: The clinical leadership story
  
  
• Health Education England ran a workshop and created useful resources:
  
  Leadership Guide
  HEE Leadership Practice Learning Workshop
  HEE Leadership Practice Learning Workshop
  HEE Leadership Placement
  HEE Leadership Placement Workshop
  
  
• The AHP practice COP’s webinar provides really useful information about leadership placements:
  
  
  
  
• The Royal College of Occupational Therapists’ Podcast on Leadership 
  
  
• The Council of Deans have produced this really useful document that promotes the importance of research placements: Becoming research confident
  
  
• HEE have created this national guidance document: Guide to Practice-Based Learning for Allied Health Professional Students in Research
  
  
• Wonkhe blog: Research placements can help health professionals ground their practice in evidence
  
  
• HEE carried out a workshop exploring creative ideas for what research placements could involve and ways of assessing: Research placements workshop
  
  
• The AHP Practice COP Group also did this recent webinar on research placements: