Best Practice Award
Nominate a practitioner who has provided excellent support for health and social care students while on placement.
The Best Practice Award nomination can be made for an individual practitioner or a team or part of a service.
Winners will receive £100 of gift tokens and a certificate.
Award criteria
The person/people you nominate need to fulfil the below criteria:
- Uses knowledge of the student’s stage of learning to select appropriate learning opportunities to meet individual needs
- Able to meet individual learning needs by employing a range of facilitation approaches
- Able to foster an effective learning environment
- Demonstrates the qualities of an effective role model
- Communicates honestly with students in order to provide constructive feedback on role performance
- Supports students in enhancing their performance and capabilities for safe and effective practice and is clear and constructive in action planning
- Identifies and applies research and evidence-based information nursing practice
- Demonstrates an understanding of practice assessment strategies
- Able to make fair and just decisions in regard to a student’s practice knowledge and competence
Further details
The full award description (PDF) or award presentation poster (PDF) has further information.
Make a nomination
Nominations can be made by students, a member of staff in the college or colleagues in practice. They can be made across fields. For example, a physiotherapy student could nominate an occupational therapy practitioner or a paramedic could nominate an emergency department sister.
Nominations are currently open until Monday 28 June 2021. Please return the completed nomination form (DOC) and return to Lisa.Stenner@uwe.ac.uk.
Each nomination will be judged on its own merits by a panel consisting of at least a member of the programme team, a student and a practitioner. The panel will use the criteria as a measure.
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