This growing collection highlights innovative placement models, ideas, and resources from across West Yorkshire’s health and care system. Its purpose is to share good practice, inspire new approaches, and help expand opportunities for our future workforce.
Here you’ll find examples of a variety of placement approaches, including new or non-traditional settings, interprofessional learning models, Student Supported Clinics, role-emerging placements, and non-clinical opportunities. You’ll also see initiatives aimed at supporting educators, assessors, and supervisors.
Each case study includes a brief description and links to supporting materials such as posters, short videos, or downloadable toolkits - making it easy to explore and adapt ideas for your own teams.
This Preventative, holistic model allows students to experience the shift from treatment to prevention in community settings. It has had a measurable impact on:
Service delivery during winter pressures
Enhancing learner skills and confidence
Supporting the existing workforce
Fostering collaboration between community nursing and social care
Increasing patient trust and engagement
This placement model supported podiatry clinics in completing new patient assessments for individuals with low-line musculoskeletal conditions and those at increased risk due to diabetes. Students focused on reassessment, patient education, and supporting the self-management of long-term conditions.
This placement model involved Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy students who supported a new inpatient service aimed at preventing hospital acquired deconditioning. Students provided patient education and delivered person-centred interventions to maintain mobility, functional abilities, and quality of life during hospital stays, preparing patients for a safe and effective discharge.
This placement model involved Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy students in an intermediate care setting, who led and delivered assessments and interventions based on patient-centred goals. They worked to improve functional outcomes, promote independence, and support patients in preparing for discharge home.
This placement model involved a student-supported service within care homes. Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy students created, delivered, and evaluated an education-based training toolkit for care staff, aimed at improving falls prevention within the social care sector. This multiprofessional approach enhanced patient care by building staff knowledge and confidence.
The video for this project will be added here once available.
Please click and download the file below to find out more about a community dietetic model run within Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust. For the best experience, we recommend watching the video in slideshow mode so you can hear the accompanying audio.
Get Set Goal is a student-supported community wellbeing service delivered as part of the Health and Wellbeing Academy at the University of Huddersfield, and was launched in April 2022,
Run by healthcare students, the service provides year-round wellbeing activities (excluding the Christmas period), including:
Since its launch, more than 170 healthcare students from nursing and allied health programmes have contributed to the service. This includes learners at every stage of training – from first-year BSc students to final-year MSc students.
More information about Get Set Goal
These undergraduate placements are designed to develop critical leadership competencies, including:
Decision-making
Adaptability
Interprofessional collaboration
Communication
Professionalism
Students have also created over 20 “Improving Health” webinars, showcasing their contributions to public health and system improvement. More information, including how to watch the webinars on Improving Health webinars – Student Supported Services.
In collaboration with Spring Hall Group Practice in Halifax and the University of Bradford, this digital placement model uses RealWear technology to offer students a flexible, real-time clinical experience. Key outcomes include:
288 students engaged to date
Access to live consultations and reflective discussions
Development of digital literacy, clinical reasoning, communication, and teamwork skills.
Supported by Leeds Health and Care Academy, in partnership with Leeds Learning Alliance, partners co-designed a placement expansion pilot within four primary schools, supporting 20 multidisciplinary students in Occupational Therapy and Nursing (including children’s, learning disability and mental health nursing). This provided an additional 1957.5 placement hours from May 2025 – July 2025.
More information about the Mainstream Schools Placement
Kirklees and Calderdale Care Association have supported placement expansion in Social care within the Kirklees and Calderdale Area. To support this they have developed resources to support placement growth within this area.
More information about The Value of Adult Social Care Placements for AHP and Nursing Students
More information about Benefits to Hosting Student Placements for Adult Social Care Providers
More information about Hosting Placements for Nursing and Allied Health Professional (AHP) Students
The Indirect Student Nurse Assessor Placement Pilot (iSNAPP) is a 12-month pilot programme designed to increase the number of student nurse placements within General Practice (GP) and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) across the West Yorkshire region.
More information about the Indirect Student Nurse Assessor Placement Pilot
