Launched this week by Skills for Care, the first undergraduate placement strategy for social care, which has aims to make opportunities for social care placements for every student nurse.
Providing students with interesting placements in social care will help them enhance their knowledge and clinical skills in a supportive environment. It also supports the development of a better informed, skilled, and person-centred nursing workforce for the future, while encouraging consideration of social care as a potential area of specialist practice.
In preparation of this, the NMC guidance on registered managers as practice supervisors was updated in 2024 to include registered care home managers as suitable for being practice supervisors, as they are registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in England and follow a process to register as an individual, rather than as an organisation.
By exposing students to the realities and opportunities in social care, we can build a workforce that is agile, well-rounded, and better prepared to deliver care across the whole system, not just in hospitals, but in communities and people’s homes.
