Our chat on 19th June is being hosted by Laura Smith, @lo_physio. Laura is a Workforce Transformation Fellow at NHS England; her work is looking at AHP Nursing and Midwifery placement expansion in non-NHS Settings. Laura will be working with two students @physio_muskan and @PhysioMar on placement in June who will help develop this chat and the chat questions – so watch this space for updates!
Ensuring a steady pipeline of graduates is essential to meet the demands for workforce supply within Physiotherapy Profession. Students must undertake around 1000 hours of practice-based learning to graduate but sourcing placements is a perennial challenge. With increasing numbers for Physiotherapy graduates undertaking direct entry private practice roles the lens is shifting to private physiotherapy providers to engage more in student placements. This tweet chat will explore existing barriers to these placements and source views on how these can be overcome.
Chat questions
1. How could students benefit from a placement in the private sector?
2. How could the private sector benefit from taking students?
3. What are your main reasons for not taking students?
4. What could be done to support you to take students?
5. Are there ways for you to challenge historical barriers to placements in the private sector?
6. There aren’t enough NHS placements causing students to graduate late. What solutions do you see to maintain the pipeline?
Resources
Physiotherapy student clinical placements: A guide for private practice providers. Compiled by members of the physiotherapy Clinical Education Managers of Australia and New Zealand (CEMANZ) committee, 2018
Clinical placements in private practice for physiotherapy students are perceived as safe and beneficial for students, private practices and universities: a national mixed-methods study. Peiris et al, Journal of Physiotherapy 68 (2022) 61-68
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