Clinical placements
As part of our nursing, midwifery and paramedic science courses, you’ll be required to complete clinical placements. These will allow you to develop your knowledge, skills and practice within healthcare settings, under the supervision of qualified practitioners.
Previous students have completed their placements in the NHS, with healthcare organisations and charities. These have been across several settings, including clinical assessment centres, GP surgeries, hospitals, and out in the wider community. The location of your placements will vary depending on your chosen course and field of practice.
Placement locations
Previous students have completed their placements in the NHS, with healthcare organisations and charities. These have been across several settings, including clinical assessment centres, GP surgeries, hospitals, and out in the wider community. The location of your placements will vary depending on your chosen course and field of practice.
Adult Nursing
This locality covers the northern area of Hampshire, serving Andover, Basingstoke, Winchester and surrounding villages. You’ll be placed with the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves around 570,000 people across Hampshire and parts of west Berkshire. Surgical, medical, family and clinical support services are provided at Andover Memorial Hospital, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital and Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester.
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital provides some specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. It’s one of two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer).
Andover War Memorial Hospital provides community and hospital services including day surgery, diagnostic imaging, a minor-injuries unit, outpatient clinics and rehabilitation.
This locality covers Guildford and the towns and villages surrounding the University. You’ll be placed with the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust provides the local population with both elective and emergency surgery, and services for those with urgent, acute and long-term medical conditions.
The Trust is home to a specialist centre for cancer services and treatment. There is a 24-hour adult and paediatric accident and emergency department, and neonatal intensive-care facilities.
This locality is based in the eastern areas of Surrey and north West Sussex, serving Crawley, Horsham and their surrounding towns and villages. You’ll be placed with the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
The East Surrey Hospital is based around 45km from Guildford and is at the heart of the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH). It operates a 24-hour emergency department, with specialist gynaecology and obstetrics services.
The Hospital provides acute and complex care in areas, including adult and paediatric emergency medicine, general surgery, orthopaedics and urology.
Outpatient, diagnostic and less complex planned services are provided at Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey, and at both Crawley Hospital and Horsham Hospital in West Sussex.
This locality serves the Frimley area and parts of Hampshire. You’ll be placed with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides services to approximately 900,000 people and is comprised of three hospitals, including Frimley Park, which has a dedicated high-dependency unit.
Services include a modern eye unit, a new cardiac centre and expanded critical-care facilities. There’s a 24-hour adult accident and emergency department, and adult general surgery and medicine services, including cardiology, cystic fibrosis, orthopaedics and trauma units.
This Trust also has a Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit with fully integrated military medics contributing to patient services.
This locality covers West Sussex, serving Chichester and adjacent towns and villages. You’ll be placed with the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is home to three hospitals, including St Richard‘s in Chichester, where you’ll most likely be based.
St Richard’s Hospital provides a full range of general acute hospital services for adults and children, including an accident and emergency department, acute cardiac care, day surgery, intensive care and outpatients’ clinic.
Children and Young People Nursing
This locality covers east Berkshire and the surrounding areas of south Buckinghamshire and north Surrey. You’ll be placed with the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides services to approximately 900,000 people and is comprised of three hospitals, including Wexham Park Hospital.
Wexham Park offers a full range of children's services in child and family-friendly environments, which include a children’s clinic, paediatric assessment unit and a community team.
Specialist services are available for:
- BCG immunisation
- Cardiology
- Diabetes
- Epilepsy
- Gastroenterology
- Neurology
- Oncology
- Paediatric phlebotomy
- Prolonged jaundice
- Tuberculosis.
This locality covers the northern area of Hampshire, serving Andover, Basingstoke, Winchester and surrounding villages. You’ll be placed with the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves around 570,000 people across Hampshire and parts of west Berkshire, and is comprised of three hospitals, including Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital.
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital is the home of children’s services within the Trust, which are delivered across acute and community settings.
The Trust works in partnership with Hampshire Children’s Services, which include community children’s nurses, health visitor liaison, school nurses, therapy staff (physiotherapy, occupational therapy and play specialists) and safeguarding children.
They also provide nursing support and health initiatives within mainstream and additional need and disability schools, children’s centres, nurseries and home schooling.
The Trust also deliver continuity of care for the children, from birth to 18 years of age (in full-time education) and their families, avoiding fragmentation and duplication of services.
This locality covers the southern area of Hampshire, serving Gosport, Petersfield, Portsmouth and surrounding towns. You’ll be placed with the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
The Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust serves around 675,000 people across Portsmouth and south-east Hampshire, and is comprised of four hospitals, including the Queen Alexandra.
The Queen Alexandra Hospital is home to a paediatric department that provides planned and emergency care to 100,000 children. Facilities include a children’s assessment unit, two inpatient wards, day surgery, outpatient clinic and a dedicated paediatric X-ray suite. The Hospital also has specialist children’s chronic disease groups, led by a team of clinical nurse professionals.
The Trust work in close partnership with the Ministry of Defence and have a dedicated hospital unit to treating current and former members of the armed forces and their families.
This locality covers Guildford and the towns and villages surrounding the University. You’ll be placed with the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust provides the local population with both elective and emergency surgery, and services for those with urgent, acute and long-term medical conditions.
The Trust is home to a child development centre, paediatric accident and emergency department, specialist care baby unit and a teenage cancer unit. The Trust also has expertise in diabetes, epilepsy and paediatric mental health.
This locality is based in the eastern areas of Surrey and north West Sussex, serving Crawley, Horsham and their surrounding towns and villages. You’ll be placed with the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
The East Surrey Hospital is based around 45km from Guildford and is at the heart of the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH). It operates a 24-hour emergency department, with specialist paediatric services.
The Hospital provides acute and complex care to children through its child assessment and neonatal intensive-care units. The Trust also has expertise in anaesthesia and oncology.
This locality is based in the northern area of Surrey, serving Ashford, Chertsey and other towns and villages in the vicinity. You’ll be placed in the Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust is home to Ashford Hospital (located near Heathrow Airport) and St Peter’s Hospital (in Chertsey).
Children, young people and their families are cared for within the Trust in a variety of settings including a neonatal intensive care unit, paediatric accident and emergency department, paediatric day ward, young person’s unit and ward areas where paediatric surgery and medical care are provided.
A Rapid Access Centre provides a rapid referral for children who’ve been seen by their GP and require an urgent opinion from a paediatrician but not necessarily hospital admission.
Additional services include paediatric and young people’s diabetes, gastroenterology, haematology, neurodevelopmental, respiratory and oncology care.
This locality serves the Frimley area and parts of Hampshire. You’ll be placed with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides services to approximately 900,000 people and is comprised of three hospitals, including Frimley Park Hospital.
Frimley Park has a dedicated teenage unit and children’s ward, which has separate areas designated for children with medical conditions, children having surgery and those suffering from infectious diseases.
Specialist services are available for:
- BCG immunisation
- Cardiology
- Diabetes
- Epilepsy
- Gastroenterology
- Neurology
- Oncology
- Paediatric phlebotomy
- Prolonged jaundice
- Tuberculosis.
This locality covers Chichester, Brighton and Hove and parts of East and West Sussex. You’ll be placed within the University Sussex Hospitals (UHSussex) NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest NHS hospital trusts in the south of England.
University Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
University Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is home to six hospitals, including Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton, Worthing Hospital in Worthing and St Richard‘s Hospital in Chichester, where you’ll most likely be based.
St Richard’s Hospital is in Chichester, West Sussex and provides a full range of general acute hospital services for children including:
- An accident and emergency department
- Day surgery
- Outpatients’ clinics (covering a variety of specialities)
- A paediatric ward
- A specialist care baby unit.
The Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital (the Alex) is a dedicated children's hospital located within the grounds of the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, East Sussex.
Worthing Hospital is a medium-sized district general hospital located in Worthing, West Sussex and provides services for children in emergency care, development clinics, pain service, surgery and more. It is also the Trust headquarters.
Mental Health Nursing
This locality covers East Sussex and West Sussex, including Chichester, Brighton and Hove and Haywards Heath. You’ll be placed with the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
The Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides care to people of all ages across Sussex who have mental health problems, learning disabilities or an addiction to drugs or alcohol.
The Trust is home to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Chalkhill Hospital, a facility that treats children and young people (aged 12–18) are experiencing emotional difficulties, mental health problems and eating disorders. The Hospital operates a day clinic and has a small inpatient ward.
The Trust also provides community services through their crisis resolution and community mental health teams. This care is delivered in people’s homes or at local assessment and treatment centres, community clinics, GP surgeries and community hospitals.
Areas of expertise in the Trust include:
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Alcohol misuse
- Anorexia
- Anxiety
- Autism and Asperger syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Dementia
- Depression
- Eating disorder
- Enduring or long-term mental health conditions
- Hoarding
- Learning disabilities
- Neuropsychiatric conditions
- Neurological conditions
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Offending behaviour
- Personality disorder
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Postnatal depression
- Psychosis
- Schizophrenia
- Self-harm
- Stress.
This locality covers the entirety of Surrey and north-east Hampshire, including Aldershot, Farnborough and Guildford. You’ll be placed with the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
The Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental health difficulties and learning disabilities in Surrey and north-east Hampshire. The Trust also provides drug and alcohol services in Surrey and Brighton.
Care is provided for people of all ages in community settings, hospitals and residential homes, with an emphasis on providing local treatment and support close to people's homes.
The Trust operates:
- Addiction services
- Eating disorder services
- Forensic services
- Prison mental health in-reach
- Psychological services.
Midwifery
This locality covers east Berkshire and the surrounding areas of south Buckinghamshire and north Surrey. You’ll be placed with the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides services to approximately 900,000 people and is comprised of three hospitals, including Frimley Park Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital.
Maternity facilities at Wexham Park include the Juniper Birth Centre, a new midwife-led unit, which offers a home-from-home environment for lower-risk births. The Centre has en-suite labour rooms and birth pools, with a transitional care unit for babies that require more support.
Specialist services are available for:
- Antenatal screening
- Bereavement
- Diabetes
- Infant feeding
- Perinatal mental health
- Vulnerable women.
This locality covers the northern area of Hampshire, serving Andover, Basingstoke, Winchester and surrounding villages. You’ll be placed with the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves around 570,000 people across Hampshire and parts of west Berkshire. Maternity services are provided at Andover Memorial Hospital, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital and Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester.
The Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital site is home to an early pregnancy assessment unit, ultrasound department, antenatal and postnatal clinics, antenatal and postnatal wards, maternity day assessment unit and delivery suite.
This locality covers Guildford and the towns and villages surrounding the University. You’ll be placed with the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust provides the local population with both elective and emergency surgery, and services for those with urgent, acute and long-term medical conditions.
The Trust provides care for mothers in a maternity ward, a birth centre, a children’s centre and in the community.
The Trust has ‘Baby Friendly’ status for its support of breastfeeding, as recognised by the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative.
This locality is based in the eastern areas of Surrey and north West Sussex, serving Crawley, Horsham and their surrounding towns and villages. You’ll be placed with the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
The East Surrey Hospital is based around 45km from Guildford and is at the heart of the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH). It operates a 24-hour emergency department, with specialist paediatric, gynaecology and obstetrics services.
The Trust has a main delivery suite, separate birthing unit with pool room, two inpatient wards (one for antenatal services) and a 28-bed postnatal ward. Out of hospital, there’s a team of community midwives who see women in their homes.
This locality is based in the northern area of Surrey, serving Ashford, Chertsey and other towns and villages in the vicinity. You’ll be placed in the Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is home to Ashford Hospital (located near Heathrow Airport) and St Peter’s Hospital (in Chertsey). St Peter’s Hospital recently opened the Abbey Birth Centre, a midwifery-led facility, with en-suite birthing rooms and a pool. They're also home to a neonatal intensive care unit and provide consultant care for those with additional needs.
The Trust has ‘Baby Friendly’ status for its support of breastfeeding, as recognised by the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative.
This locality is based in the northern area of Surrey, serving Ashford, Chertsey and other towns and villages in the vicinity. You’ll be placed in the Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is home to Ashford Hospital (located near Heathrow Airport) and St Peter’s Hospital (in Chertsey). St Peter’s Hospital recently opened the Abbey Birth Centre, a midwifery-led facility, with en-suite birthing rooms and a pool. They're also home to a neonatal intensive care unit and provide consultant care for those with additional needs.
The Trust has ‘Baby Friendly’ status for its support of breastfeeding, as recognised by the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative.
This locality covers the southern area of East Sussex, including Haywards Heath and Brighton and Hove, and south of West Sussex, serving Chichester and adjacent towns and villages. You’ll be placed with the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
The University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching trusts in the country, providing general and specialist services for more than a million people.
The Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath has a central delivery suite complete with low-risk birthing pools, an antenatal and postnatal ward, an early pregnancy unit and a day assessment unit. Community midwives linked to the Hospital provide antenatal and postnatal care in children’s centres and GP surgeries, in addition to running an award-winning home birth service.
St Richard‘s in Chichester, where you’ll most likely be based for south of West Sussex, has a maternity unit that has recently undergone a £2 million refurbishment, focused on providing mothers-to-be with a range of choices about their labour and delivery, with services tailored to meet the needs of women and their babies. There are three birthing pools, a high-tech operating theatre with a high-dependency recovery area and a special care baby unit. The addition of the Chichester Birth Centre gives mothers-to-be the option of a midwife-led service in a homely, relaxed environment.
Paramedic Science
This locality serves Guildford and areas surrounding the University. You’ll likely be placed with the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust or the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust provides the local population with both elective and emergency surgery, and services for those with urgent, acute and long-term medical conditions.
The Trust is home to a 24-hour adult and paediatric accident and emergency department, and neonatal intensive-care facilities.
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
The Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust specialises in adult and child community health, mental health and learning disability services. It delivers care through community hospitals, health centres, inpatient units and social care services. It is one of the largest trusts in the country, serving nearly 1.75 million people.
This locality is based in the eastern areas of Surrey and serves the surrounding towns and villages. You’ll likely be placed in the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
The East Surrey Hospital is based around 45km from Guildford and is at the heart of the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH). It operates 24-hour emergency department, with specialist medical, surgical, paediatric, and gynaecology and obstetrics services.
This locality is based in the northern area of Surrey, serving Ashford, Chertsey and other towns and villages in the vicinity. You’ll likely be placed in the Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust or with Central Surrey Health
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust is home to Ashford Hospital (located near Heathrow Airport) and St Peter’s Hospital (in Chertsey). Ashford Hospital has a dedicated accident and emergency department, treating nearly 100,000 patients each year.
Central Surrey Health
Central Surrey Health provides community-based nursing and therapy services for adults, including community services in clinics, GP surgeries, health centres and schools.
This locality serves the Frimley area and parts of Hampshire. You’ll likely be placed with Central Surrey Health, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, or the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Central Surrey Health
Central Surrey Health provides community-based nursing and therapy services for adults, including community services in clinics, GP surgeries, health centres and schools.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides services to approximately 900,000 people and is comprised of three hospitals, including Frimley Park, which is home to a paediatric unit and the largest resuscitation unit in Europe.
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
The Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust specialises in adult and child community health, mental health and learning disability services, delivering care in community hospitals, health centres, inpatient units and social care services. It is one of the largest trusts in the country, serving nearly 1.75 million people.
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
The South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) responds to 999 calls, provides 111 services and liaises with healthcare professionals, to provide emergency care to residents in the south-east region. The majority of our students are placed with SECAmb.
Ambulance stations in this area include:
- Godalming Ambulance Station
- Guildford Ambulance Station
- Haslemere Ambulance Station (based in Haslemere Community Hospital)
- Chertsey Make Ready Centre
- Walton on Thames Ambulance Station
- Farnborough Ambulance Station
- Tongham Ambulance Station
- Banstead Make Ready Centre.
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
The London Ambulance Service (LAS) responds to 999 calls, provides 111 services and liaises with healthcare professionals, to provide emergency care to residents in the Greater London region, providing care to approximately 9 million people.
A small number of students in each cohort have the opportunity to undertake their three years of ambulance placements within LAS.
How we allocate placements
We prioritise students on a number of factors, considering the following:
- Students with dependants
- Students living in their own homes (or that of a parent or legal guardian) at the start of the course
- Students who choose to live in university accommodation.
All the above are subject to availability and as such, may change.
There may be opportunities to change your locality, but these are limited and are again dependent on capacity and availability.
We’ll provide you with further information about localities at the start of your course and during your local induction to your practice environments.
Travel and accommodation
You’ll be required to travel to your clinical placement locations and cover the upfront costs associated with this. However, you may be eligible to apply for reimbursement of these costs through the NHS Learning Support Fund. Depending on your course, you may find it easier to find privately rented accommodation near your placement locality. Understandably, accommodation availability varies between the different localities.
We’ll provide you with further information about accommodation options at the start of your course and during your local induction to your practice environments.
Working hours
Throughout your placements, you’ll work a variety of shifts, including nights, to ensure you get an accurate representation of working in a healthcare setting. Your shifts can start as early as 7am and end after 9pm but will likely be within this timeframe.
Support
While you’re out on placement, you’ll be supported by practitioners, who’ll have knowledge of your course and will guide your learning and development. During this time, you’ll continue to have contact with your personal tutor, either remotely or face-to-face, to see how you’re getting on, offering you additional support if needed. We’ll let you know who your tutor is before you start at your locality.
You’ll also work with a strong community of healthcare workers who’ll help you during your placement and share their experiences with you.
Salary
You won’t get paid for the work you do on your clinical placement as this forms part of your teaching and learning experience.