Placement Overview
| Placement Title | HMR (Heywood, Middleton, Rochdale) Older People’s Community Mental Health Team |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Stevie Hayes, Amanda Driver – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Stevie (Team Leader), Amanda (PEL) |
| Placement Address | Watergrove, Birch Hill Hospital, Birch Road, Rochdale, OL12 9QB |
| Placement City/Town: | Rochdale |
| Placement Phone | 01706 676400 |
| Your University Contact: | Shelly Allen – Send Email |
About this placement
Student Booklet – STUDENT BOOKLET Oct 2025.doc
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
- Introduction to assessor, supervisor, and the wider team.
- Orientation to the placement area.
- Provision of Student Information Booklet.
- Completion of initial interview and induction on PARE, within first two days.
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
We have seven nurses who can act as supervisor/ assessor.
Students also work with the team occupational therapist who also takes OT students.
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Students will work 9am until 5pm, Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays.
They have 30 minutes for lunch.
NOTES:-
Full uniform is encouraged. Pennine Care clothing policy is available via the intranet. Identity badges are essential.
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
Visit service users in their homes, on in-patient wards and in full time care environments.
Involvement in assessment, care planning, risk assessment, relapse prevention and full interprofessional team working.
What nursing model is used for planning care?
A comprehensive mental health assessment incorporating a person-centred approach to care and utilising the recovery model.
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
- Communication skills/ listening skills
- Assessment skills and care planning
- Risk assessment formulation
- Administration of depot preparations
- Monitoring of therapeutic effects of medication prescribed for a variety of mental health conditions
- Person centred approaches in dementia
- Establishing therapeutic relationships including disengagement
- Record keeping and governance
- Safeguarding awareness
- Interprofessional working and liaison
- Carer support
- Mental Health Law framework application
- Lone working protocols
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
- Anxiety management
- Supporting older people with substance misuse
What resources are available to help students learning?
- Access to internet including NICE clinical evidence updates
- Books which students can borrow
- Close working with assessor, supervisor and other members of the team
- Opportunity to use role play in developing assessment and communication skills
- Spoke placements – please see student booklet. We are happy to support spoke placements which directly relate to specific learning objectives for the placement.
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
Spoke Placements
- Older peoples inpatient wards at Birch Hill Hospital
- Memory clinic
- Intermediate Care Team
- Carers resource
- Consultant Out-Patients Clinic
- Community Matrons
- Treatment Support (depot clinic)
- Older Peoples Day Centres
This is not an exhaustive list and mentors are happy to support spoke placements which directly relate to a students specific learning objectives for that placement
Additional Information
Full uniform is encouraged. Pennine Care clothing policy is available via the intranet. Identity badges are essential.
We have a kitchen with a fridge/freezer, kettle and microwave. You are welcome to bring your lunch which can be stored in the fridge. There is also a canteen and coffee shop on site, in addition to local shops. Staff bring their own tea/coffee/milk.
Car parking is currently free of charge. Parking is limited, please ensure you are parked in a parking bay and do not park on any kerbs, red/yellow lines as this can obstruct emergency access around the hospital site.
We will arrange for IT access at the beginning of your placement. In order to adhere to IT and Information Governance protocols, this can sometimes be a lengthy process, but we will endeavour to arrange this as quickly as possible.
We consider ourselves to be approachable and flexible and you are encouraged to think about what you want to achieve from the placement before you arrive so that we can then tailor the learning experience to your learning objectives.
You are encouraged to contact the PEL prior to placement so that you can ask any questions and be given clear instructions for attending on your first day. You will be informed of the name of your assessor/supervisor at this point.
Please contact the PEL with any queries ahead of your placement – Amanda Driver amanda.driver@nhs.net