We need you!
Nursing students are placed in a variety of areas to ensure that, at the point of registration, they have been exposed to as broad a range of health and social care settings as possible. We are always looking for new practice learning environments for our students to gain the broadest possible experience.
Would my organisation be suitable?
Suitable learning environments don’t just include hospitals: if your private, voluntary, or independent (PVI) organisation provides any form of care or support for a group of service users, you may be suitable to host students. This document details the proficiencies that all nurses must qualify with – if you provide care aligned to any of these proficiencies, then you may be a suitable placement environment. Placements do not need to have registered nurses as staff members – the university arranges oversight of our students when they are in these areas. Our students are aligned to one of four fields of practice: Adult Nursing, Children’s Nursing, Learning Disability Nursing, or Mental Health Nursing. Placements are allocated to students in fields of practice relevant to the type of service users, patients, or clients that you provide care for.
Examples of PVI placements can include:
- GP Practices
- Private Hospitals and Clinics
- Community Centres
- Mutual Aid Organisations
- Day/Respite Care
- Support organisations caring for adults or children with or without learning disability or mental health diagnoses.
- Refuges
- Prisons
- Residential/Nursing Homes
- Nurseries
- Many more!
Our placements are primarily located across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland. However, if your organisation is located outside of this area we may still be able to work with you: we accept placements up to 90 minutes away from Leicester City either by car or public transport.
What’s in it for me?
By hosting student nurses in you area, you are directly shaping the future of the nursing profession by exposing future nurses to your client or service user base. To support this, NHS England pays a tariff to placement providers for each week that they host students. The payment varies year-on-year, please see this site for the latest tariff information.
How can I get in touch?
If you would like to arrange a meeting to discuss becoming a placement area, please contact our placement capacity Practice Lead, Natalie Tyers.
If you are in an NHS trust and would like to take student nurses, please contact your Practice Learning Team.
How will it actually work?
Once you have agreed to have a student nurse in your area of practice and the placement profile and health and safety agreement have been received, the placement team are informed that the placement is ready to be used. They will allocate you a number of students in one or more fields of practice and years of study agreed between you and the University. These arrangements will be reviewed with you periodically when the placement profile is updated or before if appropriate. Unless the placement team are informed otherwise, your area will be allocated according to this information each time students are placed.
Individual placements vary in length from 4-12 weeks. Students from all years and all fields of practice are allocated to placements on a regular basis by the placements team. It is our intention to give you as much notification as possible that you have been allocated a student and aim to inform you six weeks before each placement commences. Students are informed four weeks before placements commence.