Students and trainees

Placement applications or expressions of interest are made through your education provider’s placement office or your course convener. The CPO does not take applications directly from individual students.

You will receive an email with login instructions to your InPlace/InPlace Network account once your details have been uploaded by your education provider. You will need to complete the placement pre-requisites on SPO at least 2 weeks before your placement starts.

One week before starting your placement, you will need to contact the placement area for a nursing or midwifery roster and collect your ACT Health student ID card from the Security Office.

Student and Trainee Placement Acknowledgement Form (Acknowledgement form)

You are required to sign your Acknowledgement Form. By signing this document, you demonstrate that you have read and understand your responsibilities whilst on placement.

You will need to complete this within HRIMS each calendar year.

Placement cancellation

A clinical placement can be cancelled by the CPO Manager or your education provider. If there are outstanding placement pre-requisites 2 weeks before your start date, your placement may be cancelled.

As an employee, your application and process for a student placement is the same as for other students. You will need to login to InPlace/InPlace Network and check that you have met the placement pre-requisites. Depending on your role at ACT Health, you may have already met some of the pre-requisites and may forward evidence to CPO. 

It is important to be mindful of the following three requirements:

1. All students who are ACT Health staff must complete an Acknowledgement form. The form is currently valid for a calendar year.
2. You will have two separate accounts for HRIMS, one as a staff member and one as a student. You will need to email CPO with a copy of your learning history so we can provide recognition of prior learning for the courses you have already completed.
3. If your placement needs face to face manual handling training, you must provide proof of attendance at a training session in the last 12 months. This must be sent to the CPO.

Nursing and Midwifery students are expected to follow the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s (NMBA) Codes of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives.

The NMBA National Competency Standards for a Registered Nurse, Enrolled Nurse and Midwife are used to support work practices that offer the expected core standards of care to patients and clients who require a provision of service by ACT Health staff. All ACT Health student nurses and midwives are expected to understand and use these standards during their clinical placements.

For more information or to download these standards, please see the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia website.

Allied Health Professional students and trainees are expected to follow their individual discipline’s code of conduct and ACT Health’s Standards of Practice for ACT Allied Health Professionals.

Professions regulated under the National Law (Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act) need to abide by the standards, codes and guidelines of their respective National Board.

Self-regulated allied health professions act in accordance with accredited qualifications, codes of conduct and continuing professional development specific to their discipline as determined by their respective peak professional associations.

Medical students are expected to abide by the Medical Board of Australia’s Codes and Guidelines in addition to ACT Health’s Code of conduct.

Please see the Medical Board of Australia website.

ACT Health and ANU Medical School accept a small number of overseas elective students each year.

Placements are arranged for students through the education provider’s placement office or course convenor. If you would like to undertake an elective placement with ACT Health, please discuss your placement query with your clinical placement coordinator and then apply through ANU Medical School by emailing elective.medicalschool@anu.edu.au