During their degree, pre-registration healthcare students are required to gain experience in community and/or acute placement settings. This page provides information and resources to support those involved in placement facilitation.
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Practice Education Management System (PEMS)
Practice Education Management System (PEMS)
PEMS provides secure online access to course specific placement learning resources and information about placements.
Access PEMS here and enter the details:
- Students: your Brookes student ID and password
- Staff: your email address (name version) and password
- Placement providers: your PEMS ID and password
If you require help, or have any problems with the PEMS website, please contact peu@brookes.ac.uk
Students placement allocation
Placement allocation
- Principles of placement allocation
- Pre-qualifying placement allocation: key principles
- Requesting a change in placement after allocation
- Paramedic fair and equitable placement allocation
Direct allocation management: for Nursing Oxford NHS partners only
Direct allocation management: for Nursing Oxford NHS partners only
- GW2 Principles for using the Direct Allocation Model (DAM) for Placements (Nursing Oxford only)
- Principles relating to allocation of practice assessor and practice supervisor in adherence to NMC (2018) standards
- NMC Standards (2018) for nursing and midwifery student supervision and assessment
- NMC Standards (2018) key programme information
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust direct allocation model papers (Adult Nursing only)
- OUH process if you receive a student allocation you feel unable to support
- University process if OUH staff advise they are unable to support a student allocation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust direct allocation model papers (Nursing Oxford only)
Location maps
Transport guides and travel time
Transport guides and travel time
Placement hours and supernumerary status
Student practice and study hours
- Maximum student practice and study hours
- Statement of definition of practice learning hours for Nursing and Midwifery
- Supernumerary status of students
Recording student hours in practice
- Recording of Midwifery, Nursing, ODP, Paramedic, student hours in practice
- Recording Occupational Therapy student hours in practice
- Recording Physiotherapy student hours in practice
- Recording Social Work student hours in practice
- Implementation of e-rostering for student nurses, midwives and ODPs (OUH NHS Foundation Trust only)
Useful references

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Standards of conduct: fitness to practise
Attendance policy and placement agreements
Dress code
Dress code
Students on placement/ in the practice setting are considered to be ‘employees' of the placement provider and must adhere to all local policies e.g. Dress code for employees or Uniform and Dress Policy for clinical staff.
Religious practices
Religious practices
Meeting the religious and cultural practices of health and social work students
A student’s identity can have a significant and profound impact on their placement learning experience and assessment in practice, these guiding principles help to explain how the faith/non-faith traditions, cultural practices, and linguistic diversity of students can be met in practice placements.

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Occupational health and reasonable adjustment
Occupational health and reasonable adjustment
Sickness / absence
Risk assessment
Risk assessment
COVID-19
COVID-19
Process due to COVID-19
- Checklist for establishing Covid-19 risk level with placement partner
- Covid-19 risk assessment process for continuing students
- Covid-19 placement area induction checklist
- Covid-19 risk assessment process for students at OBU
- Covid-19 supernumerary placement - capacity, allocation, change in Covid level during placement
- Covid-19 student vulnerability levels and considerations
- Decisions related to students Covid-19 vulnerability rating
Pre and postnatal students on placement

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Expenses from the NHS Learning Support Fund
Expenses from the NHS Learning Support Fund
Pre-registration healthcare students who qualify for student finance from Student Finance England, Student Finance Wales, the Student Awards Agency Scotland or Student Finance Northern Ireland are entitled to claim reimbursement of expenses incurred whilst attending placement from the NHS Learning Support Fund.
Expenses from Oxford Brookes University
Expenses from Oxford Brookes University (OBU)
Pre-registration healthcare students who do not qualify for student finance from the four main British Student Finance organisations can claim reimbursement of expenses incurred whilst attending placement directly from the university.
Financial support
Financial support

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Practice Assessment Docs (PADs) and Practice Education Handbooks (PEHs)
Practice Assessment Docs (PADs) and Practice Education Handbooks (PEHs)
- Midwifery PEH
- Nursing (Pre-Registration) PEH 2018
- Nursing (Pre-Registration) PEH 2019
- Nursing (Pre-Registration) PEH 2020
- Nursing (Pre-Registration) PEH 2021
- Nursing (Pre-Registration) PEH 2022
- ODP PAD and PEH
- Occupational Therapy PEH
- Paramedic Science PEH 2019
- Paramedic Science PEH 2020
- Physiotherapy PEH
BePAD login and guides
BePAD login and guides
Nursing BePAD guides
- BePAD 2016 (students guides)
- BePAD 2016 (practice assessor/practice supervisor/overseer guides)
- BePAD 2020 (students & practice assessor/practice supervisor/overseer guides)
Paramedic BePAD guides
Procedural skills (Nursing and Nursing Associate only)
Procedural skills (Nursing and Nursing Associate only)
Guides for Nursing students: community placement experiences
Guides for Nursing students: community placement experiences
- The district nursing team's guide to facilitating the learning of student nurses
- The health visitor’s guide to facilitating the learning of student nurses
- The nursing home guide to facilitating the learning of student nurses
- The general practitioner's guide to facilitating the learning of student nurses
- The school health nurse' guide to facilitating the learning of student nurses
Facilitating the learning of Paramedic students
Facilitating the learning of Paramedic students

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Personal safety and incident guidance
Personal safety and incident guidance
Advice for Students about Personal Safety:
- Oxford Brookes Student Union Advice Centre
- Suzy Lamplugh Trust
- Student travel pages
- Improving safety for lone workers : a guide for lone workers
- Government stay safe video (rare event of a firearms or weapons attack)
Incident guidance
Raising concerns about practice
Raising concerns about practice
- Brookes: Guidance for implementing speak up safely / raising concerns
- Brookes: Effective management of persistent or serious issues of practice assessor/practice supervisor performance
- NHS England: Freedom to speak up
- Thames Valley students only: HEE supporting and escalating concerns: pathway for learners
- Oxford Health (Only) - Raising Concerns about practice
- Oxford Health (only) freedom to speak up
Giving feedback

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New placement providers
Link Lecturer standards and Induction
Link Lecturer standards and induction
Supporting the failing student
Supporting the failing student
- Guidance for Nursing, Midwifery, ODP, Paramedic and their practice assessors/supervisors in the event of the student failing competencies/proficiencies in practice
- failing competency statement
- Reflecting on challenging placement experiences
Communication with external organisations
Quality assurance and placement charter
Feedback loops
- Adult Nursing Oxford evaluation feedback loop
- Adult Nursing Swindon evaluation feedback loop
- Children's Nursing evaluation feedback loop
- Mental Health Nursing evaluation feedback loop
- Midwifery placement evaluation feedback loop
- Occupational Therapy evaluation feedback loop
- ODP Placement evaluation feedback loop
- Paramedic evaluation feedback loop
- Physiotherapy evaluation feedback loop
Placement charter
Good practice: models of student support
Good practice: models of student support
- Good practice principles: Peer Dyads
- Good practice principles: Hub and Spoke
- Good practice principles: Team Supervision
- Good practice principles: Collaborative Peer Assisted Learning (CPAL)
Also see section 'Assessment, BePAD, Handbooks and guides' will also provide you helpful information and includes:
- Practice assessment information for all programmes
- Procedural skills and simulated practice information for Pre-registrations Nursing and Nursing Associate students
- Community Pre-reg. Nursing placement guides eg DN, HV, SchN, GPN, Care home

Preparation requirements (PA, PS, AA)
PA and PS updates and Nursing BePAD information sessions
Preparation requirements
- Academic Assessor preparation
- Practice supervisor and practice assessor preparation
- Practice Assessor preparation
- Practice Supervisor preparation
- Routes of preparation for becoming a practice assessor and/or a practice supervisor
Transitioning from being a mentor
Allocating nursing practice assessors and practice supervisors to students
Allocating nursing practice assessors and practice supervisors to students
- Principles document related to allocation of PA PS
- Statement of “overseers” and “nominated practice support person”
- Statement of practice supervisors and practice assessors for any single student
- Statement of definition of practice learning hours
- Sharing of ongoing record of achievement
- NMC standards 2018 key programme information
Current practice supervisor / practice assessor guidance and update sessions
PA and PS updates and Nursing BePAD information sessions
- Nursing BePAD 2020 Updates for practice assessors and supervisors Oxford and Swindon
- Practice Assessor and Supervisor Annual Update 2022/23
- Practice Assessor and Supervisor BePAD Support Session
Current practice supervisor / practice assessor guidance
- Statement of how/when practice assessors are required to observe/work with students
- Student practice supervision and assessment journey
- Supporting students during service reconfiguration or departmental moves
- GW2 standards for student supervision and assessment key information
Development and updates
- Developing and maintaining your role as a practice supervisor and/or practice assessor
- Partner evidence of ongoing development of practice assessors / practice supervisors
- Evidence of completing a practice assessor / supervisor clinical update
- Partner evidence of ongoing development of practice assessors practice supervisors
- Practice assessor and supervisor workshops (Adult Nursing Swindon)
- Reflection for mentors
- Facilitator guidance notes
- Mentor update facilitating evidence based practice
Communication pathways
- Practice supervision and assessment support and communication pathways
- GW2 Practice Supervision and Assessment Support and Communication Pathways
Time
- Time for practice assessment and mentorship activities for pre-qualifying Health and Social Care programmes
- Supported time for practice assessors and supervisors
