THE LINK LECTURER ROLE
Lecturers to the professional health care courses at UCS have a link role to areas that support students in practice which is commensurate with their primary role in education. This role is endorsed under the National Standard Contract for Professional Health Training.
Link lecturers are assigned to one of two categories of honorary attachment under this contract.
Category one relates to link lecturers whose duties involve direct patient contact or the supervision of students immediately engaged in direct patient contact. The permitted duties of the link lecturer under this category are:-
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To conduct direct patient/client care as part of a recognised care delivery team for the purposes of demonstration to students and clinicians, or as part of the requirements to update personal clinical skills and competencies.
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To direct students in the delivery of direct patient/client care.
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To advise on protocols regarding health care delivery at both team and director level.
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To be available to students and clinicians for consultation and discussion in the workplace.
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Review and analyse practice methods.
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Ensure clinical placements are appropriate to the students' level of study.
Category two relates to link lecturers whose duties do not involve direct patient contact or the supervision of students immediately engaged in direct patient contact but whose duties do involve regular access to the premises of our placement providers. The permitted duties of the link lecturer under this category are:-
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To advise on protocols regarding health care delivery at both team and director level.
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To be available to students and clinicians for consultation and discussion in the workplace.
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Review and analyse practice methods.
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Ensure clinical placements are appropriate to the students' level of study.
In the discharge of these duties link lecturers will engage in the following objectives and activities.
1) The maintenance of effective professional relationships with a defined range of clinical environments -
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to advise practice on educational matters
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to provide advice and peer support to mentors and practice facilitators -
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ensuring that teaching methods employed reflect contemporary practice.
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ensuring that assessment methods used support the development of individual potential in students.
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to maintain active involvement in clinical practice by e.g. -
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contributing to the development of practice through the identification and facilitation of necessary change.
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undertaking practice based research activities.
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maintaining contact with experts in practice.
2) The support of students and registered practitioners, encouraging an enquiring and reflective approach to professional activity -
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to assist the creation and development of opportunities for students and mentors to identify and undertake activities to meet learning needs.
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to support students in the receipt and evaluation of feedback and the construction of personal action plans.
3) Where required by regulatory bodies, to carry out, in association with placement providers and in the manner agreed, the educational audit of placement areas within, or at need outside, the defined rage of link areas -
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to contribute to the ongoing development of effective audit activity by identifying at first hand the criteria against which placements should be evaluated.
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to provide advice and support on action plans devised to enhance the learning environment.
4) The acquisition and use of insights from practice to lead course and curriculum development and review -
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to contribute to the implementation of new policy initiatives in education and practice.
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