Practice Learning

The Centre for Practice Learning (CPL) Team is based within the Education Centre. 

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We are a growing team of 11 staff form different health professional and NHS backgrounds.

One of our main responsibilities is to ensure our clinical placements are suitable for all non-medical learners coming to the trust and that those staff supporting the learners a suitably prepared.

The other is to ensure all non medical learners attending the trust on a placement are prepared, induction, offered learning opportunities to meet the requirements of their programme and also well supported throughout their placement and though to qualification.

We do this by:

 

• Ensuring we have adequate placement capacity for all learners, from all non medical courses agreed as part of the Derbyshire Placement Learning groups for all professions.

• Offer high-quality, audited, practice placement experiences for all learners ranging from pre grad diploma through to post graduate study.

• Offer Inter-professional learning opportunities across the organisation including student teaching events and forums.

• Provide a service which provides support, guidance, teaching, one on one working or support, myepad/pebblepad support at point of care, 7am - 6pm weekdays with our Practice Learning Educators in all fields of nursing, midwifery, physio, OT and SLT.

• Work closely with our Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) partners to ensure the placements meet the requirements of the programmes, developing our working relationship to offer all our learners great support.

• Ensuring that our staff are suitable prepared to support students effectively (Practice Supervisions/Practice Assessors/Educators).

• Promoting the NHS as a career option by attending local careers events.

• Providing placement opportunities/work experience for individuals across the organisation.             

                                                                                                                           

If you would like any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the team.