Work-based learning is a way of facilitating university level education and training in the workplace.
Work-linked features permit learning to take place at work, through work and be centred upon the working environment.
The utilisation of a specific work role, together with the organisation’s objectives as the focus of enquiry, work-based learning provides students with the unique opportunity to design a bespoke learning experience through the construction of a learning contract. The module also provides the students with the confidence to take on, and lead on, and develop new projects within their clinical practice.
The precise nature of the work-based learning may encompass elements of inter-professional working.
This is a work-based learning module with 3 x 1/2-day seminar sessions in the university with the majority of the learning taking place under the guidance of a convenor in the workplace.
The module is assessed by way of a 5000-word written assessment, including construction of a learning contract and a written reflection of the learning journey.