​PEER ENHANCED E-PLACEMENTS 
UNBLOCKING THE LOG JAM WITH SUSTAINABLE APPROACHES 

Covid 19 brought significant disruption, delays, backlogs and challenges for Higher Education 'placements', especially in
health and social care courses.  The rivers of learning are jammed by pre-pandemic capacity challenges,  pressures to  educate ever more students to address workforce needs, forced suspensions of face-to-face education.

Peer Enhanced E-Placement (PEEP) can help: it provides a sustainable model of placement delivery with rich and meaningful learning for students and rapid viable adoption for staff, deploying existing placement standards and outcomes.   For now - and for agile, flexible provision for uncertain futures. 

Take a quick tour through the PEEP philosophy, approaches, agility and adaptability.  Do not miss the chance to unblock your log jam.

Listen and watch: Professor Gilly Salmon  and Dr Lisa Taylor reflect on what they have together created and can offer to you. 

The PEEP Acquisition Package

The Acquisition package comes in three parts:
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Part 1 - Pre workshop activities –1 hour individual work - exploring professional placement standards & learning outcomes & understanding key components of a PEEP.
Part 2 - ½ day online workshop with Professor Gilly Salmon and Dr Lisa Taylor – exploring the online learning environment and pedagogy, sharing exemplar student timetables, customizing to local and professional student placement learning needs.
Part 3 - Post workshop activities – 10 minute online quiz, receipt of an e-certificate of completion and a student e-handbook exemplar for local customization.
​Part 4: over to you: agile rapid implementation.
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PEEP CONTEXUALISATION

Part 1 - 'Deep Dive' exploration with key stakeholders from profession/service/course
Part 2 - Visualisation of the process and outcomes of deep dive with artist in residence
Part 3 - Online forum to present results of deep dive and visualisation to wider stakeholder audience
Part 4 – PEEP Acquisition Package roll out to all individuals identified from Part 1. Can include other workshops if you wish. 
In the video opposite Rod Angood (our Artist in Residence) explains his composition of the visualisation for the Operating Department Practitioners PEEP journey.
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PEEP ADAPTABILITY AND AGILITY
​(design once: deliver many times)

The heart of any PEEP is the individual professional standards and specific placement learning outcomes for your students at their stage of learning. The core PEEP pedagogical journey for students is consistent – but the  experience can (and has been) fully adapted and adopted to reflect your  needs and challenges. PEEP is agile and can be moulded to fit and satisfy your local placement structure requirements. Although the PEEP has been implemented for health and social care students – the principles are applicable for any student placements across the higher education sector.

FEEDBACK

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PEEP Students
  • “chances for us to gather information, prioritise problems, settting goals and consider different assessments and interventions”
  • “the structure helped me meet the placement learning outcomes and guided me through the occupational therapy process”
  • "developed my confidence in professional reasoning”.
  • I have grown in terms of my knowledge …I have learnt a great deal from this placement
  • “ a little overwhelmed …it was a lot of work however …rewarding experience. I have gained a lot of invaluable knowledge
  • “I have grown…developed a wider understanding of the Occupational Therapy process… stressful and mentally draining period but…a rewarding one. I gained confidence and worked with fantastic people” 
  • “Privileged to be part of the new way of the world”
  • “I have gained more confidence with the technology aspect…”   

​PEEP Case Study Lead
  • ​“ This placement gave the students a good environment to explore and pratice their assessment and professional reasoning and to really get to grips with goal settting and prioritisation". 

PEEP Long Arm Supervisor
  • “This online placement really helped them (students) to adapt to working online, managing their time and develop to a new level of collaborative team working that they have not completed before. Their understanding of the complexities within each of the case studies presented really focused them on person centred care, within the constraints of  health service provision, and it enhanced their knowledge around each of the conditions presented in the case studies.”
PEEP Acquisition Package Participants
Over 100 participants so far from the following areas – Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Dietetics, Orthoptics, Operating Department Practitioners, Social Work, Therapeutic Radiology, Diagnostic Radiography,  Nursing, Paramedics, Podiatry, Medicine, Pharmacy,  and Optometrists.
  • “Highly recommended workshop – time to discuss and reflect on how we can enable great practice learning for students online. Plenty of evidence says it’s not 2nd best but reflects today’s practice”
  • “Excellent session thank you” “Really informative workshop”
  • “Develops mind set that encourages PEEP as an integral part of student learning”
  • “Very engaging and thought provoking” 
  • “It is great that we don’t have to reinvent what is a great placement”
  • “It offers a lot of scope to provide experiences across all of the fields of nursing”
  • “This will address some the quality issues that we currently have with some of our current face to face placements”

List of organisations that we have worked with to date:
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H.E.Is                                                                                                                          Health Trusts/Others

University of Bedfordshire                                                                                      Health Education England
Birmingham City University                                                                                    NHS Education for Scotland
University of Bolton                                                                                                  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Brighton University                                                                                                  Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Buckinghamshire New University                                                                           
University of East Anglia
University of Huddersfield
Kingston & St. Georges University
London Southbank University
University of Nottingham
Sheffield Halam University
Plymouth University
​Teesside University
​Robert Gordon University
Queen Margaret University
University of West of Scotland
Glasgow Caledonian University
University of Stirling
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