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University placement arrangement responsibility
Is my university responsible for arranging my placement, or can it require me to find one myself?
Read the answer →Student nurse supernumerary status on placement
Can a student nurse be counted in staffing numbers instead of being treated as supernumerary on placement?
Read the answer →Inadequate placement supervision
What can I do if I receive inadequate supervision or have no suitably qualified placement supervisor?
Read the answer →Placement failing to provide promised experience
Can I complain if my placement does not provide the promised learning opportunities, setting or professional experience?
Read the answer →Late and short-notice placement rota changes
What can I do if my placement rota is issued late or repeatedly changed at short notice?
Read the answer →Late placement allocation affecting arrangements
What can I do if my placement is allocated too late for me to arrange travel, accommodation or caring responsibilities?
Read the answer →Cost of placement uniforms and checks
Who must pay for compulsory placement uniforms, equipment, vaccinations and professional checks?
Read the answer →Undisclosed placement year tuition fee
Can my university charge a tuition fee for a placement year if the fee was not disclosed before I enrolled?
Read the answer →Placement failure without warning or support
Can I fail a placement without being warned, given timely feedback or offered an action plan?
Read the answer →Placement assessment without adequate observation
Can a placement assessor fail me without having directly observed enough of my practice?
Read the answer →Challenging unfair performance improvement plan
Can I challenge an unrealistic placement action plan or one introduced too late for me to improve?
Read the answer →Placement competencies sign-off refused
What can I do if my placement supervisor or assessor refuses to sign off my competencies?
Read the answer →Placement terminated early by provider
What can I do if a placement provider ends my placement early or refuses to let me return?
Read the answer →University duty to investigate placement allegations
Is my university required to investigate a placement provider’s allegations instead of simply accepting them?
Read the answer →Responsibility for investigating placement complaint
Who is responsible for investigating a complaint about a placement: the university or the placement provider?
Read the answer →Whistleblowing detriment on healthcare placement
Can I be failed, removed from placement or referred to fitness to practise for raising patient safety or safeguarding concerns?
Read the answer →Reporting unsafe placement to regulator
Can I report an unsafe or seriously substandard placement to the relevant professional regulator?
Read the answer →Repeating placement hours after interruption
Can the university make me repeat placement hours completed before a long interruption?
Read the answer →Repeating placement over missing hours
Can the university make me repeat an entire placement when I only need to make up missing hours or competencies?
Read the answer →Placement repeat or extension fees
Can the university charge an extra fee to repeat or extend a placement?
Read the answer →Sickness absence affecting placement outcome
Can sickness absence or failure to follow the placement’s absence-reporting procedure cause me to fail?
Read the answer →University attendance during fitness-to-practise suspension
Can I continue attending university teaching while I am removed from placement or awaiting a fitness-to-practise decision?
Read the answer →Placement failure treated as fitness to practise
Can the university treat a failed placement or lack of competence as a fitness-to-practise case?
Read the answer →Burden and standard of proof in fitness-to-practise cases
Who must prove a university fitness-to-practise allegation, and what standard of proof applies?
Read the answer →Anonymous complaints in fitness-to-practise case
Can anonymous, patient or service-user complaints be used in a university fitness-to-practise case?
Read the answer →Fitness-to-practise panel composition requirements
Must a university fitness-to-practise panel include an independent member and someone from my profession?
Read the answer →Appealing fitness-to-practise decision
Can I appeal a fitness-to-practise finding, conditions, suspension or removal from my course?
Read the answer →Bias in fitness-to-practise proceedings
Can someone involved in the original concern investigate me, sit on the fitness-to-practise panel or decide my appeal?
Read the answer →Fitness-to-practise investigation and appeal timescales
How long can a university fitness-to-practise investigation and appeal take?
Read the answer →University concurrent disciplinary proceedings
Can the university run disciplinary, academic and fitness-to-practise proceedings about the same incident?
Read the answer →Fitness-to-practise proceedings after criminal acquittal
Can fitness-to-practise proceedings continue after the police take no further action or I am acquitted?
Read the answer →Fitness-to-practise removal without considering mitigation
Must a fitness-to-practise panel consider remediation, insight, personal circumstances and less serious outcomes before removing me from my course?
Read the answer →Denial treated as lack of insight
Can a fitness-to-practise panel treat my denial of the allegation or decision to appeal as a lack of insight?
Read the answer →Use of past concerns in fitness-to-practise
Can previous warnings or resolved concerns be used in a new fitness-to-practise case?
Read the answer →Right to know breached professional standard
Must the university identify the exact professional standard I am alleged to have breached?
Read the answer →Fitness to practise versus academic appeals
Is a fitness-to-practise appeal different from an academic appeal?
Read the answer →Amending fitness-to-practise allegations mid-investigation
Can the university change or add fitness-to-practise allegations after the investigation has begun?
Read the answer →Fitness-to-practise decision reasons requirement
Must the university give clear reasons for a fitness-to-practise finding and sanction?
Read the answer →Relevant evidence in fitness-to-practise case
Can the university use unrelated academic performance or attendance records in a fitness-to-practise case?
Read the answer →Fitness-to-practise investigation after course withdrawal
Can the university continue a fitness-to-practise investigation after I withdraw from the course?
Read the answer →Fitness-to-practise removal and exit award
Am I entitled to an exit award or transfer to a non-professional course after being removed on fitness-to-practise grounds?
Read the answer →Declaring university fitness-to-practise outcome for registration
Must I declare a university fitness-to-practise warning, investigation or outcome when applying for professional registration?
Read the answer →Falsifying placement records and fitness to practise
Can falsifying placement hours, attendance records or a supervisor’s signature lead to fitness-to-practise proceedings?
Read the answer →Boundary breach and fitness to practise
Can an inappropriate relationship or boundary breach with a patient or service user lead to fitness-to-practise proceedings?
Read the answer →Confidentiality breach and fitness to practise
Can a breach of patient or service-user confidentiality on placement lead to fitness-to-practise proceedings?
Read the answer →Placement failure and fitness-to-practise risk
Can one clinical mistake, medication error or safety incident cause me to fail a placement or face fitness-to-practise proceedings?
Read the answer →Non-disclosure and fitness-to-practise proceedings
Can failing to disclose an employment investigation or previous professional concern lead to fitness-to-practise proceedings?
Read the answer →Regulator delaying professional registration
Can a professional regulator refuse or delay my registration even though my university found me fit to practise and allowed me to graduate?
Read the answer →Poor record-keeping fitness-to-practise risk
Can poor or inaccurate record-keeping on placement lead to fitness-to-practise proceedings?
Read the answer →Failure to report colleague misconduct
Can I face fitness-to-practise proceedings for failing to report another person’s unsafe or unprofessional conduct?
Read the answer →Lateness affecting fitness to practise
Can repeated lateness, absence or failure to follow placement rules lead to fitness-to-practise proceedings?
Read the answer →Placement cancelled by university
What happens when the university cancels my placement and cannot provide another?
Read the answer →University placement staff harassment
What can I do about bullying or harassment by University placement staff?
Read the answer →Refusing unsafe placement duties
Can a student refuse unsafe or inappropriate duties on a University placement?
Read the answer →University placement expenses liability
Who must pay University placement travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses?
Read the answer →Challenging distant university placement
Can I challenge a University placement that is unreasonably far from home?
Read the answer →Challenging university suspension and regulator referral
Can I challenge a University interim suspension or referral to a professional regulator?
Read the answer →Fitness to practise hearing rights
What evidence and representation rights apply at a fitness-to-practise hearing (re University)?
Read the answer →Social media and fitness to practise
Can social-media activity lead to fitness-to-practise proceedings (re University)?
Read the answer →Convictions and DBS disclosure on professional courses
How does a conviction, caution or DBS disclosure affect a professional course?
Read the answer →Occupational health medical history disclosure
Can occupational health at University require disclosure of my entire medical history?
Read the answer →Placement provider duty to implement disability adjustments
Must placement providers implement university disability adjustments?
Read the answer →Unrecorded university placement hours
What happens when completed University placement hours are not properly recorded?
Read the answer →Claim for delayed university graduation
Can I claim for delayed University graduation, registration or an unnecessary repeat year?
Read the answer →Visa rules for internships and placements
How do the visa rules apply to internships and course placements?
Read the answer →University placement minimum wage entitlement
Does a compulsory university placement qualify for minimum wage?
Read the answer →University clearance delay or refusal
What happens when University DBS, occupational-health or other clearance is delayed or refused?
Read the answer →Fare evasion consequences for record and career
Can a rail settlement or prosecution affect my criminal record, visa or professional course?
Read the answer →University course misrepresentation over placements
Can I claim when an advertised placement or practical component for my University course is not provided?
Read the answer →Reasonable adjustments during professional placements
What reasonable adjustments can be made during professional placements?
Read the answer →Appealing biased placement assessment
Can I appeal a failed (University) placement or biased assessor’s report?
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