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Application pack
Orthoptic Clinical Education Placements
Primary Placement Site Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Telephone Number: 01932 722146 (St Peters) 01784 884133/ 4152 (Ashford)
Email sonal.rathod@asph.nhs.uk
Email Judith.ackers@asph.nhs.uk
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List of all Orthoptic staff, their year of qualification and any practice education training
Practice Education Facilitator / AHP Education Lead in the organisation (if known):
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Lead Clinical Tutor Information
July 2013.
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Post graduate teaching experiences (include any past or present experience of teaching Orthoptic
students or other health professionals)
- Some experience with teaching nursing students the methods of testing visual acuities in younger patients
- Organised and taught a pre-reg Optometry student specific fields of Orthoptics in a couple sessions to
allow her to achieve certain objectives for assessment in ASPH orthoptic department
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Placement Profile
Please provide information about your service which provides clinical support to academic learning. Here you should illustrate
all the learning opportunities it offers, highlighting major components and specific strengths and expertise available within the area. You may highlight, for
example, opportunities for inter-professional learning, types of clients/patients likely to be seen etc. Please use the table on page 6 to highlight extended
scope of practice the students may be exposed to in your department.
- Orthoptic led primary vision screening for children under the age of 5.
- Joint Orthoptic and Ophthalmologist Paediatric clinics running regularly with an average of 4/5 sessions per month.
- Joint Orthoptic and Ophthalmologist adult ocular motility clinics twice a month.
- Orthoptic led adult and paediatric clinics for follow-up patients.
- Stroke clinics led by orthoptic stroke lead PS. Assessments are carried out on the stroke ward on a regular basis.
- BTXA injection in adult ocular motility clinics once a month.
- Health care Assistants perform visual field assessments.
- Ophthalmic Photographers perform OCT, FFA, Slit-lamp photography, Corneal cell count and Topographies.
- Orthoptic monthly staff meetings are organised which include CPD sessions where each member presents a topic
of their choice.
- LVA clinics run by local Optometrists
- Contact lens clinics
- Corneal Clinics
- AMD and AMD injection clinics
- Squint surgery for paediatric patients (once a week) and adult patients (once/twice a month)
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EXPERIENCE /X /X
Ophthalmoscopy X Stroke Unit (multi-professional)
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Collection of Evidence
a) Essential Criteria
The list in the table below is the baseline of evidence required in every practice learning area to demonstrate a quality learning environment is
in place.
Statement Please Indicate Location of Evidence please embed documentation where
possible
Yes No
E1 Staff have access to University handbooks Summarised copies for each year and for each university are
placed in blue folders at each orthoptic site. Copies are also
available for staff members.
..\..\Handbooks\Summary\Liverpool year 1.doc
..\..\Handbooks\Summary\Liverpool year 2.doc
..\..\Handbooks\Summary\Liverpool year 3.doc
..\..\Handbooks\Summary\Sheffield Yr 1.doc
..\..\Handbooks\Summary\Sheffield Yr 2.doc
..\..\Handbooks\Summary\Sheffield Yr 3.doc
E2 Students have access to orthoptic Printed copies found in blue folders in all orthoptic rooms.
department evidence based clinical protocols
and guidelines ..\..\Orthoptic Protocols
NAME OF CONTACT DETAILS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE SPECIFIC TO WHICH MAXIMUM TIME
SATELITE or YEAR OF FOR LEARNERS TO
SPOKE PROGRAMME SPEND IN THIS
(please state) SPOKE
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Commitment to clinical teaching and education
Please provide an indication of how many weeks per academic year you can support clinical education in your department. This
must be a minimum of at least 2 clinical placements per year.
2 clinical placements per year for 2 weeks each time (4 weeks in an academic year)
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Section E: Accommodation
Please provide information about accommodation that is available for this placement which includes
facilities, location and approximate cost.
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Placement Visit To be completed by the University and BIOS representatives.
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Essential Criteria
Evidence seen / embedded into document Yes / No
Action Plans outstanding Yes / No
Comments:
Additional Comments:
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Placement approved
Yes
No
Recommendations:
University of Sheffield
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