Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Phoenix HV Team |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Justine Kershaw, Janine Chapman – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | PELs |
| Placement Address | Phoenix Centre, Church Street, Heywood, OL10 1LR |
| Placement City/Town: | Heywood |
| Placement Phone | 01706 676708 |
| Your University Contact: | Nicky Fishburn – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Identified mentor
Placement information
Possible pre-arranged spokes and study sessions – depends when in area
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
Identified students
Diary worked around students needs
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early:
Late:
Night:
Shift Notes:
Mon-Friday 9-5pm or 8.30-4.30pm
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
1:1 contact
Family contact
Health plans
Teaching 1:1 and group
What nursing model is used for planning care?
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Drug prescribing
Safeguarding
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
What resources are available to help students learning?
1:1 daily contact with team
Attendance at meetings, teaching sessions and training
Computer
Health Resource Library
Practitioners skills and knowledge
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
Texting service
Integrated team working
Health profile tool
Asylum seekers clinics
Early Help Pilot
Kirkholt Pilot
Spoke Placements
Generic community staff
Social Services
Sexual Health
Emotional Health
Outreach workers
Drug and alcohol workers
Nocturnal Enuresis Service
School drop in
College drop in
Immunisation sessions
Sunrise – Sexual Exploitation Team
MASS – Multiagency Safeguarding Service
The list is quite exhaustive and will depend on where the student is in their training
Additional Information
Please note:- if you have a child in the catchment area of this Health Visiting or School Nursing team you may not be able to attend due to a conflict of interests, please email Angela Mehr in the Clinical Placements Unit asap to clarify.We are also a teaching practice for medical students.
Community Nursing is a diverse job
It is an ever changing role on a daily or hourly basis