Welcome to the Sheffield Hallam University Nursing and Social Work (Learning Disability) practice placement site for students and educators.
Welcome to the Sheffield Hallam University Nursing and Social Work (Learning Disability) practice placement site for students and educators.
This site is a guide to help you make the most of practice placements. The guidelines on the site are resources for students, practice educators, supervisors/assessors, lecturers and link lecturers. Practice placements are an important part of nurse/social work education and make up 50% of learning. This course leads to a honours award and two professional qualifications one in Learning Disability Nursing and one in Social Work. It fulfils the requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Social Work England.
The successful completion of the course will yield the necessary adaptability, flexibility, and self-reliance that will make the graduate practitioner fit for employment and able to deliver effective nursing and social work into future decades.
Service user and carer input and teaching are fundamental to the course, allowing students to gain first-hand experience of working with service users in a setting within which the service users are not merely recipients of care.
Over the three years of the programme 50% of the cumulative time will be spent in the practice setting.
The assessment of practice aims to ensure that the student has met the requirements set by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Social Work England.
Students are advised that they must follow their placement provider's policies and guidelines at all times while on placement.
Contacting the Learning Disability (Nursing) and Social Work Team
If you need to contact a member of the Learning Disability (Nursing) and Social Work Team, you can find email and telephone contact details here.
