2023/24 Placement Offers
Your placement offers are important to us. Placements are integral to Speech & Language therapy training, supporting students to put their learning into practice. Through observation and hands-on practical experience, students develop their knowledge, skills and confidence. Placements enable students to understand more fully the expectations that are required of them as a qualified Speech and Language Therapist. We need to work together to support their journey towards registration to become your future workforce.
We would like to say a big thank you in advance, for your help, cooperating and collaborating in our aim to achieve this successfully.
Live high level statistics to see at a glance where our placement offers are currently at.
Please see 2024/25 Offer Statistics (Detailed) below for a more in-depth view of each placement block.
Please be aware that although we may have what seems like enough offers we do need to take into account such things as Placement Adjustment Plans (PAP's), car availability etc which may not match up with offered placements so we would welcome all offers even if this looks like we may have more offers than students to allow us to match students efficiently.
Offer Process Map
In our attempt to make some changes to the way we organise placements and to try and be more pro-active, we are planning to start the allocation process earlier to allow for more accurate and timely information both to our providers and our students.
This does of course hinge on us receiving enough offers in order for us to allocate, prior to the placement start date as per the diagram, which ideally should be between weeks 16 and 12, with some wriggle room of week 8 at the latest.
We hope you will be on board with our new process and if you should have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.
2024/25 Offers Form
We have now moved our offers form to a google form in the hope that this form offers a clear understanding of the offers we require for the coming academic year, and can be accessed via the below link. The google form will email you a copy of your responses once you have selected 'Submit' for your records and can be completed multiple times should you not wish to make your yearly offers all in one go.
We would be grateful if you could complete all offers this way in order for us to provide you with a ' Live Offer Statistics' sheet that will show you in real time the offers we still require and where we have already received enough offers for a specific placement block/experience.
2024/25 Offer Statistics (Detailed)
We are aware that we email out to you as providers to request offers on a fairly regular basis and try where possible to let you know what exactly it is that we are short of in any particular instance. However this is static data, and is out of date the minute we receive an offer offer. We appreciate that you take time out of your busy schedules to put an offer together for us and sometimes this can then mean that by the time we receive this it is not longer required.
We are therefore trying to be a little more forward thinking and have been able to produce a 'LIVE Offer Statistics' sheet that shows in real time what offers we have received and are still short of, based on the offers that have been made via the 'new offers form'.
We hope that the real time data will be more useful to you than the static data provided in emails and will be using the link to provide this information for the future.
Please be aware that although we may have what seems like enough offers we do need to take into account such things as Placement Adjustment Plans (PAP's), car availability etc which may not match up with offered placements so we would welcome all offers even if this looks like we may have more offers than students to allow us to match students efficiently.
Placement Adjustment Plans (PAP's)
Where students at the University of Sheffield have a Learning Support Plan, an offer is then made to the student to discuss the possibility of a Placement Adjustment Plan in order to carry through any possible requirements into a placement setting.
When allocating students with a PAP in place, we send through the anonymised PAP to highlight any additional needs that a student has and support they may benefit from. The PAPs contain suggested reasonable adjustments that have been discussed and agreed with the student and a member of the clinical team; we would not anticipate that these could not on the whole be accommodated by the majority of our providers
If however you felt strongly that there was a legitimate reason that the adjustments could not be met we would very much like to discuss this with you to understand what barriers may exist, that would mean you were unable to accept the student on placement. This will then enable us to look at the PAP's holistically and make improvements where possible in our student recommendations within adjustment plans for the future.