Occupational Therapy Practice Education Collaborative - Queensland

Setting up for a student placement

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  4. Setting up and sustaining a positive student clinical placement
  1. Access clinical education training and resources
  2. Brainstorm the learning opportunities your facility can offer students
  3. Ensure management and staff are aware, informed and in support of providing a student placement
  1. Preparation of the clinical education environment
  2. Structure a graded student learning program and establish placement learning expectations
  3. Make Friends with the SPEF-R

3. Ensure management and staff are aware, informed and in support of providing a student placement

You may like to:

  • Discuss with your colleagues and line manager the benefi ts for the organisation/centre in having a student.
  • Discuss your responsibility to your profession and the Occupational Therapy Practice Education Collaborative QLD (OTPEC-Q) recommendations regarding student supervision (outlined in Part One).
  • Discuss your development needs at  staff appraisal and include student clinical education as a goal you wish to pursue.
  • Present the learning opportunities offered by your service and ask colleagues for other ideas or contributions.
  • Notify all relevant staff, including administrative staff, about the arrival of the student, the expected dates and duration of the placement, student’s level of education, any specifi c projects that the student will be working on, student timetable, and also ask relevant staff to nominate scheduling of meetings with the student for demonstration of procedures/systems, presenting tutorials and other interdisciplinary tasks.
  • Ensure that the timing of the student placement will be suitable with other centre and staffi ng commitments and scheduled activities. For instance; check clinicians’ scheduled holiday, maternity or conference leave, centre holidays, staff workload demands, project deadlines or other such events or activities.