The Health and Social Care Integration Programme received funding from Health Education England to facilitate the growth of placements in line with the LEAP/CPEP ambitions, as part of the local ‘Growing for the Future’ workstream. This initial investment was used to create the SY ICB Social Care Placement Expansion Project, with its main aim to support the growth of the future integrated workforce across the caring eco-system.
Over the course of the first phase, it was recognised that further investment would be placed to assist in supporting further placement growth, in particularly for Allied Health Professionals.
The primary focus of the project is to improve educational opportunities by increasing the diversity and number of placements for health students in social care settings, for them to experience the ‘richness’ that social care placements offer and ensure a learning experience of a different facet of the caring eco-system.
The project aims to:
- significantly increase the number of placements for health students within social care settings.
- provide placements for student nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physios, dieticians, and paramedics.
- Provide social care managers with an understanding of the benefits of supporting students.
- Provide social care managers with practical guidance to support students.
- provide social care managers with the understanding, tools, and procedures to receive funding tariffs for hosting students.
- increase the students’ knowledge and experience of social care settings through practical placements in order to embed the importance of an integrated health and care workforce.
- support students to understand the breadth of potential career pathways within social care.
- To support universities to provide quality student placements in home care settings.
