HS594-7-FY-CO:
Practice Placement 3
2026/27
Health and Social Care (School of)
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Postgraduate: Level 7
Future
Thursday 08 October 2026
Friday 02 July 2027
30
15 July 2025
Requisites for this module
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MSC B62024 Speech and Language Therapy (Pre-Registration)
This module provides the culmination of your practice-based learning that will enable you to further develop your readiness for becoming an SLT in the multi-professional workplace, transferring theory to practice, and preparing for work as a newly qualified practitioner.
The aims of this module are:
- To develop professional identity and skills essential to becoming an SLT.
- To provide opportunity to integrate academic learning from across the programme.
- To help you to prepare for being an autonomous practitioner.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Evaluate, plan, and implement strategies for the identification, augmentation and management of speech, language and literacy needs and/or eating, drinking and swallowing needs with supervision and support.
- Identify ability and difficulty in the context of communication and/or eating, drinking and swallowing.
- Demonstrate flexible communication, negotiation, and therapeutic skills in interactions with service users, carers and other professionals.
- Formulate intervention plans integrating theory with practice through appraisal and application of the evidence base to support clinical decision-making.
- Articulate clinical reasoning and demonstrate the ability to plan, negotiate, implement and evaluate intervention in response to differing needs and circumstances of clients.
- Articulate and exhibit responsibility, initiative, and autonomy in carrying out the professional roles, responsibilities and behaviours of a Speech and Language Therapist in order to ensure safe evidence- based practice towards clients and themselves.
- Identify and prioritise their own personal and professional learning needs and experiences through critical reflection, supervision, and use of CPD activities and tools, recognising and reflecting on factors which affect the transition from pre-registration SLT to qualified professional.
Professional body requirements
In order to meet accreditation requirements students will be required to complete placements in varied settings, across the lifespan with supporting university workshops to develop key skills.
Syllabus information
- Fitness to place, including mandatory training
- Mandatory placement preparation sessions covering key clinical and professional skills necessary for transitioning into an autonomous practitioner.
This module will be delivered via practice placements with support class and seminars.
The seminar sessions include discussions, group work and practical activities.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Module is either passed or marked as not completed.
Reassessment
Module is either passed or marked as not completed.
Module supervisor and teaching staff
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No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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