Pre-Preceptorship Placement
Lancashire and South Cumbria Primary Care Training Hub are offering practices a structured Pre-Preceptorship Placement Programme for 3rd Year Pre Registration Nursing Students on their final placement in Primary Care.
Pre Preceptorship Programme Aims
- Develop skills and confidence to become a autonomous practitioner alongside building clinical skills required to fulfil the general practice nurse role
- Provide a period of preparation to ease the transition from learner to registered Health Care Professional, improving readiness for employment within primary care
- Improve understanding of the healthcare system and the business needs of the practice
- Builds on skills and experiences acquired through reflection
Recruit Practice-Ready Newly Qualified Nurses
What is Included?
Learners will be prepared with the knowledge and skills to enable them to deliver a clinic focused on chronic disease management to help achieve the Quality Outcomes Framework. Weekly structured sessions linked to the Local Enhanced Service (LES) and the Directed Enhanced Service) DES are included throughout the placement such as:
- EMIS Training
- Diabetic Foot Screening Training
- Venepuncture Training
- NHS Health Checks
- Application form Support
- Interview Skills
- Introduction to Respiratory
- FeNO Training
- Spirometry
- Making Every Contact Count (MECC)
- Talk Cancer Workshop
- Leadership Skills
- Chronic Disease Management
- Asthma
- COPD
- Diabetes
- Wound Care
- Clinical Skills Workshop
- Consultation Skills
- Access to our two week Primary Care Virtual Placement
- Health and Wellbeing
How is this delivered?
Learners will join your practice in the usual way for their clinical placement, gaining valuable hands-on experience within your team.
As part of their programme, one day each week will be dedicated to developmental learning. On this day, learners will follow a structured timetable of activities — either completing online learning from home or attending face-to-face education sessions at a designated venue.
This approach allows learners to balance practical experience with focused professional development, ensuring they gain the skills, confidence, and knowledge to become capable autonomous practitioners.
Meet the Team
We have a fantastic team to support the Preceptorship Programme. If you have any questions or queries, please feel welcome to reach out to us and we will help to support you the best way we can.
Rebecca Richardson
Preceptorship Lead
About Rebecca
Yvonne Thomson
Programme Lead
About Yvonne
A Registered General Nurse, who has completed the ILM Coaching qualification with a multi-faceted career spanning over nearly 30 years. Experience has been gained within the Armed Forces and the NHS across secondary care, community, and Primary Care. Strategic and operational leadership, management, education, service development and re design, alongside project management expertise has been achieved throughout her career. Passionate about educational and career development and really enjoys working with people to develop their own skills and knowledge within a coaching and mentoring ethos.
Samantha Jefferies
Project Manager (Placements)
About Samantha
I am the Project Manager for Lancashire & South Cumbria Primary Care Training Hub, for Placements.
Working in partnership with the Five Training Hub Localities;
Providing support to each Locality Training hub, Leads, Operation Managers, General Practice Education Facilitators (GPEFs), Trainee Nursing Associate Practice Education Facilitators (TNA PEFs), and organisation Practice Education Facilitators (PEFs) in expanding clinical placements and ensuring the provisions are of a high-quality multi-professional learning environment across the sectors.
Rhianna Whitaker
Administrator
About Rhianna
Rhianna is new and excited to provide support to the preceptorship team. She has 4 years experience in legal and aerospace administration. she gained experience in procurement, safety, and data management.
Rhianna has a Masters degree in Speech and Language Therapy and is also pursuing this as a career. She is hoping to specialise into voice therapy and clients with neurological conditions. During her studies in the pandemic Rhianna worked first hand with both clinicians and clients, her dissertation was on clinical supervision during COVID-19.
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Contact us
Please email the team at [email protected]