We provide practice placements for pre-registration mental health nurses and learning disability nurses, allied health professionals (AHPs), social workers, and apprentices (for example, student nurse associates and registered degree nurse apprentices).

We work with universities from across Greater Manchester and offer a range of learning opportunities across our clinical services. You can see a full list of services in the menu below.

You’ll be assigned a practice supervisor and assessor or educator if you are a AHP or social worker student. We also have practice education facilitators who provide a link with your university. They help to combine theory and practice, as well as support our practice placement areas, colleagues and students, to provide safe and effective learning environments.

If you’re a mental health, learning disability or AHP student in the UK who's looking for a learning opportunity, we also consider elective requests.

 

We offer a range of learning opportunities across our clinical services, these include:

  • Inpatient adult acute wards
  • Psychiatric intensive care units                    
  • Community mental health teams
  • Mental health liaison teams (A&E)
  • Mental health access teams
  • Early intervention teams
  • Mental health rehabilitation wards
  • Community rehabilitation team
  • Home treatment teams
  • Structured clinical management teams
  • Child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) – inpatient and community teams
  • Older adult mental health services (dementia, memory assessment, community mental health, single point of access, day hospitals, acute wards)
  • Adult learning disability team
  • Childrens learning disability teams
  • Psychological therapies
  • Talking therapies

For pre-registration nursing, AHP and social workers, email pcn-tr.pcft.pefteam@nhs.net

For apprenticeships email pcn-tr.apprentices@nhs.net

You can also contact the team directly:

Pre-registration facilitator manager

Pre-registration facilitators

Apprenticeships Manager

Apprenticeships facilitator

Student nurse associate facilitators

We love to receive as many student evaluations as we can to help us develop and improve your experience.

Please ask your students to complete the online evaluation or email their evaluation to our practice education faciliators: pcn-tr.pcft.pefteam@nhs.net

The learning experience charter was developed by health and social care learners, service users, carers, and health and social care professionals in the Northwest.

It includes learning environment pledges, and rights, roles, and responsibilities of all learners.

We’re also rolling out the newly developed safe learning environment charter. This aims to achieve excellence in learning, leading to excellence in the delivery of health and social care by learners in their future careers.

Both charters are displayed in all practice placement areas.