Work health and safety
External educators must conduct a WHS induction within the first few days of the placement
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Become an external placement educator
Work with us to build our future workforce
In most health science degrees, students are required to undertake placements with external organisations. By becoming a placement educator, you'll make an invaluable contribution to the development of these future professionals.
About our placements
Our allied health professional degrees require students to complete placements in the authentic workplace environment. The placements are designed to enable students to reach the expected professional competencies through experiencing the real world of work across varied settings.
Students are supervised by staff from sites in the public and private health sector, education, disability and other private and non-government organisations.
Students undertake placements in the following disciplines:
How to become a placement educator
For professionals interested in offering placements, please contact the relevant work integrated learning discipline contact.
Why become a placement educator?
As an educator, you will experience the personal reward of contributing to the growth and development of your future colleagues and thus growing your profession. In return, students bring to placement their enthusiasm, zest for learning and the latest research findings to inform their and your clinical reasoning.
You'll have access to education and workshops, and the University of Sydney library. We also invite some individual placement educators to apply for an honorary clinical title in recongition of their significant contributions.
2021 placement calendars
The 2021 placement calenders are now available for reference. Note that these dates may be subject to change and may not apply to students following a non-standard placement progression:
- diagnostic radiography (pdf, 430kb)
- exercise sport science and exercise physiology (pdf, 106kb)
- occupational therapy (pdf, 146kb)
- physiotherapy (pdf, 347kb)
- rehabilitation counselling (pdf, 96kb)
- speech pathology (pdf, 97kb)
Development and workshops
We provide external educators with interactive opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills in organising, structuring and carrying out high quality student placement experiences. We offer two types of workshops - introductory and intermediate.
Due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the educator workshops are currently on hold until further notice. We are working on the development of online options for training.
For questions regarding 2021 workshop information, please contact shs.wilworkshops@sydney.edu.au
Library access
All current external educators can apply for borrowing privileges from the University Library (including access to the Library's electronic resources). To apply, please complete the Library application form (pdf, 63.1KB) and send to shs.wil@sydney.edu.au with a copy of your identification and a passport size photo.
Membership can be renewed annually (contingent on your continued education of students on placement), by completion of the form. ID and a photo are not required for renewals.
