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Placement Set-Up, Schedule and Charts

Trainees are on clinical placements in NHS settings throughout training. This section contains resources and information related to placements for trainees, supervisors and course staff.

Trainees

Basic Placement Requirements

There are some requirements that are common to all placements and that all trainees/supervisors/staff should be aware of.

Days on placement/placement study

There are certain basic requirements about number of days and pattern of study leave across placement 

 
Workload

All trainees are expected to have a workload equivalent to 8 cases in an adult mental health setting.

Leave Arrangements

Below are details of leave arrangements for home fee and international self funded trainees:

Annual Leave Forms are downloadable from the Annual Leave Monitoring tab under Useful Forms

Travel
 
Cultural competence

All trainees are required to be culturally competent:

Service user involvement

All trainees have to have had some meaningful contact with services user groups/representatives who have a consultative role. This needs to happen on at least two placements.

Leadership Skills

Information on developing leadership skills on placement; suggestions for trainees and supervisors:

Placement guidelines and contracts

All placements need to have a contract set up and the contract needs to be handed into the course within 4 weeks of the start date of the placement.

See detailed placement guidelines including: an overview of the competences trainees need to acquire through training; information about placement content and learning outcomes; expectations common to all placements and placement content in specific service settings 

See basic contract template with guidance on what components make up a contract 

See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for a child placement should contain

See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for an LD should contain

See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for an OA should contain

Placement chart - current allocation for all years

Placement charts detailing current allocations for trainees in all years has been moved to the Trainee/Staff Intranet.

Placement Schedule & Dates

Staff

Basic Placement Requirements

There are some requirements that are common to all placements and that all trainees/supervisors/staff should be aware of.

Days on placement/placement study

There are certain basic requirements about number of days and pattern of study leave across placement 

Workload

All trainees are expected to have a workload equivalent to 8 cases in an adult mental health setting.

See information on how this might translate in other services
Leave Arrangements

Below are details of leave arrangements for home fee and international self funded trainees:

Annual Leave Forms are downloadable from the Annual Leave Monitoring tab under Useful Forms

Travel

Cultural competence

All trainees are required to be culturally competent:

Service user involvement

All trainees have to have had some meaningful contact with services user groups/representatives who have a consultative role. This needs to happen on at least two placements.

Leadership Skills

Information on developing leadership skills on placement; suggestions for trainees and supervisors:

Placement guidelines and contracts

All placements need to have a contract set up and the contract needs to be handed into the course within 4 weeks of the start date of the placement.

See detailed placement guidelines including: an overview of the competences trainees need to acquire through training; information about placement content and learning outcomes; expectations common to all placements and placement content in specific service settings 

See basic contract template with guidance on what components make up a contract 

See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for a child placement should contain

See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for an LD should contain

See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for an OA should contain

Placement chart - current allocation for all years
Placement charts detailing current allocations for trainees in all years has been moved to the Trainee/Staff Intranet.

 

Placement Schedule & Dates

Supervisors

Basic Placement Requirements

There are some requirements that are common to all placements and that all trainees/supervisors/staff should be aware of.

Days on placement/placement study

There are certain basic requirements about number of days and pattern of study leave across placement 

Workload

All trainees are expected to have a workload equivalent to 8 cases in an adult mental health setting.

Leave Arrangements

Below are details of leave arrangements for home fee and international self funded trainees:

Annual Leave Forms are downloadable from the Annual Leave Monitoring tab under Useful Forms

Travel
Cultural competence

All trainees are required to be culturally competent:

Service user involvement

All trainees have to have had some meaningful contact with services user groups/representatives who have a consultative role. This needs to happen on at least two placements.

Leadership Skills

Information on developing leadership skills on placement; suggestions for trainees and supervisors:

Placement guidelines and contracts

All placements need to have a contract set up and the contract needs to be handed into the course within 4 weeks of the start date of the placement.

See detailed placement guidelines including: an overview of the competences trainees need to acquire through training; information about placement content and learning outcomes; expectations common to all placements and placement content in specific service settings 

See basic contract template with guidance on what components make up a contract 

See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for a child placement should contain

See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for an LD should contain

See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for an OA should contain

Placement chart - current allocation for all years
Placement charts detailing current allocations for trainees in all years has been moved to the Trainee/Staff Intranet.

 

Placement Schedule & Dates
Resources for supervisors

New Supervisor Workshop Slides

UCL run supervision workshops jointly with Royal Holloway University of London and University of East London. The new supervisor workshop gives information on how to set up and run a placement and provides the first part of accredited supervisor training. For slides from this workshop click here. For dates of this and other workshops click here.

Supervisor competence framework

Guidelines for academic work conducted on placement

As part of their course requirements, trainees conduct two different types of academic work while they are on placement; case reports and service related research projects.

It is often useful for supervisors to be able to see the guidelines for these:

Click here for case report guidelines

Click here for service related research guidelines.