Partnership Lead
Hannah Beal, Deputy Director – Allied Health Professionals, Integration and Clinical Education, Leeds Community Healthcare
Purpose
Take a Team Leeds approach to re-imagining, diversifying, and expanding clinical placements. This includes:
- Using workforce data to inform planning and delivery.
- Exploring alternative methods of placement delivery.
- Supporting expansion of placements across private, independent, and voluntary organisations (PIVOs).
- Strengthening system leadership (e.g. audits, induction, student supervision).
Focus
To accelerate and diversify health and social care placements by embedding multi-professional students in mainstream schools.
Academy Role
- Accelerate Progress – Driving faster, better collective action through investment, innovation, and system-wide collaboration.
- Connector – Building and strengthening partnerships across health and care in Leeds.
- Catalyst – Supporting pilot projects (e.g. mainstream schools project) through planning, delivery, and evaluation.
- Partnering – Coordinating collaboration across the city, including the Clinical Placements Steering Group.
- Innovating – Exploring new approaches, challenging traditional models, and widening placements into community settings.
Planned Impact (Healthy Leeds Plan Alignment)
Enabling the future workforce to gain experience across the health and care system, supporting prevention and improving health outcomes.
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