Clinical placements: education providers
ACT Health works with education providers to offer quality clinical placements.
The partnership is formalised by a deed of agreement that clearly states the arrangement between ACT Health, tertiary and vocational institutions, students and trainees.
Before you offer a placement
Before you offer a clinical placement, you must sign both a deed and a course specific schedule.
You should plan for this in advance as preparing these documents can be time consuming.
You must:
- review documents and the agreement - you may need to consult a lawyer
- get signatures from senior organisation representatives
- deliver the original documents.
Nursing, midwifery and allied health placements
Contact the Clinical Placement Office for initial placement information.
Medical placements
Contact the Australian National University Medical School at scmreception@anu.edu.au.
For elective placements:
How to submit a placement request
You must submit a formal request through InPlace Network no later than 8 weeks before a placement is due to start.
No later than 4 weeks before a placement, you must upload student or trainee information to InPlace Network.
This must include:
- names and contact details
- confirmation of national police checks
- confirmation of working with vulnerable people cards
- confirmation of required level of immunity
- confirmation of current manual handling training.
If a student or trainee has a positive police or working with vulnerable people check, or has issues with their immunity, contact the Clinical Placement Office.
Documents
You must check documents before uploading. When you confirm completion, you are legally responsible.
The deed of agreement states that the education provider is legally responsible to ensure that all preplacement mandatory requirements are true and correct as per ACT Health requirements.
You don't need to send documents to the Clinical Placement Office, but they must be available if needed.
Placement cancellations
You may be charged a fee on cancellation or amendment once the student details have been uploaded up to the first day of placement.
Clinical facilitators
Clinical facilitators are welcome at ACT Health facilities and need to comply with the same requirements as students.
Education providers will need to:
- request facilitator access to ACT Health facilities through the Clinical Placement Office
- notify ACT Health if the facilitator needs extended access
Facilitators with access to Canberra Health Services need an ACT Health identification card.
All staff supervising or managing students should be familiar with the following policies: