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.
We are currently setting up test cycles to establish placement models within care settings that can be rolled out more widely. We have some great social care providers who are keen to trailblaze by working with the project board and the universities to see what works. We are looking at a number of different placement models including:
- 1–2-week placements for students to gain insight into social care and learn essential care skills
- longer placements where students will gain leadership skills through project work to share knowledge, skills and connections between the health and care professions.
The requirements vary for each of the different Allied Health Professions and for the Nursing students. We are working to develop models that work for everyone and understand how we can maximise opportunities for integration of knowledge and skills.
The South Yorkshire map shows where we are hoping to run the first test cycles.
This page is currently under construction - please check back soon
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What is a tariff payment?
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has established a payment tariff for clinical placements in England to ensure that providers are reimbursed consistently for the training placements they provide. Tariffs also help to ensure that placements are of a high quality so that learners develop the skills and knowledge to meet their respective professional requirements. The tariffs are updated every year by the DHSC and published on their government website: Education and training tariffs 2024 to 2025 - GOV.UK. The financial contribution can vary depending on the course the student is studying.
How much is the tariff for hosting health students?
The tariff payment for 2024/2025 is:
- £3.61 per hour.
- or £135.27 for a 37.5-hour week.
You will receive the full amount for each student if you have a health registrant[1] available to be the practice educator within your service. The profession of the health registrant must meet the specific requirements of the student’s specialism.
If there isn’t a registrant in your service, it may be that some of the tariff for hosting health students will be used to fund the long-arm educator role. This will depend on the university and the course.
[1] NMC registration for Nursing and Midwifery students. HCPC registration for all Allied Health Professionals.
If you are a social care provider in South Yorkshire, we'd like to know your experience, thoughts and preferences about hosting students. Please click on the link to share a little bit of information about your service, your experience of hosting students, and the type of placements you might be able to offer.