Supporting your placement

The work placement office is here to help

The work placements office is here to provide support for students who are on placement and those who are looking for a placement opportunity.

While you are on placement you will receive the following:

  • A dedicated placements team able to respond to any problems you may be having
  • An individual tutor who visits you twice while you are on placement
  • Access to all the University facilities including e-resources
  • A preparation for final year workshop
  • A research methods refresher workshop

How is the year monitored?

When you secure a work placement the placements office will make contact with your employer to complete a health and safety assessment and to provide the employer with a placements handbook which details their responsibilities.

When you start your placement you will be allocated a visiting tutor who will come to your place of work to meet with you and your employer in the first couple of months, and again towards the end of your placement.

Throughout the year the placements office will keep in contact with you to check on your progress and you will return to the University for a workshop to prepare you for your second year.

At the end of the placement you are required to submit a placement portfolio containing your learning contract, a satisfactory employer appraisal of you and an end of placement presentation. This should be signed off by your visiting tutor.