Contractual requirements for placements
To become a student placement provider you will need to sign two contracts - the Workplace Agreement and the Learning Development Agreement
Workplace Agreement (WPA)
This is an agreement between the University and the placement provider.
It must be signed by both parties and be in place before students are placed.
The key areas covered relate to:
- Reviewing of placement numbers
- Termination of a placement
- Occupational health
- Criminal records screening
- University obligations (e.g. relating to training of supervisors, standards of supervision, monitoring student progress, etc.)
- Placement provider obligations (e.g. relating to student induction, student access to facilities, etc.)
- Liability
- Indemnities
- Insurance
- Supernumerary status
Learning Development Agreement (LDA)
This is an agreement between Health Education England and the placement provider. In the South West it is managed by Health Education South West (HESW).
The LDA is initiated by HESW, once the University has advised them that a student has been placed.
It enables HESW to pay the tariff to the placement provider at the end of the year.
The key areas covered relate to:
- Recruitment and selection
- Occupational health and Disclosure And Barring Service (DBS) checks
- Induction
- Liability and insurance
- Intellectual property
- Workforce planning and workforce development
- Patient safety
- Clinical supervision
- Bands 1-4 workforce
- Undergraduate and post-graduate non-medical placements
- Undergraduate medical placements
- Doctors in training
- The placement provider’s premises
- Learning management systems
- Library and knowledge services
- Quality assurance
- Exchange of information
- Funding
- Education placement partnership principles