1. Employability – a marriage of Associate Deans
Dr Lisa Taylor AD Employability FMH
Katrina Emerson AD Admissions FMH
Emma Sutton AD Learning Teaching and Quality FMH
Prof Laura Bowater AD Enterprise FMH
Dr Kenda Crozier AD Post Graduate Research FMH

2. Presentation EMPLOYABILITY WITHIN FMH ADMISSIONS AND EMPLOYABILITY
LEARNING TEACHING AND QUALITY AND EMPLOYABILITY
ENTERPRISE AND ENGAGEMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY
POST GRADUATE RESEARCH AND EMPLOYABILITY
CONCLUSIONS AND MOVING FORWARD
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

3. EMPLOYABILITY WITHIN FMH
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

4. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS FOR FMH PROGRAMES OF STUDY
Pre registration healthcare student
Education provider requirements for programme approval
Regulatory bodies standards for professional registration
Professional body requirements for membership
All FMH students are required to undertake clinical placements to fulfil the standards for their individual professional registration. For example BSc or MSc Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy students have to complete and pass 1000 clinical placement hours during the programme of study. A standard term is 40 week for MED and weeks for HSC courses.
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

5. HIGHER EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Higher Education Institutions “Need a defined and co-ordinated approach to employability that is understood and supported by all staff and made explicit to all students” – Doug Cole (2016). A more holistic approach to employability is required within Higher Education as reinforced by the Teaching Excellence Framework – a student’s knowledge skills and career readiness should be a focus throughout their studies as well and the measure of graduate prospect scores (Elkington, 2016).
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

6. EMPLOYABILITY AND FMH
Employability permeates through all aspects of the faculty and as such is part of a student’s journey from admission through to employment. The process of embedding employability within FMH has facilitated a close working relationship between the Associate Deans within FMH This presentation will explore the integrated working between the ADs in relation to employability.
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

7. Student Employability
EMPLOYABILITY AND FMH
Student Employability
External Organisations/Key stakeholders
Careers and Employability –
Students
Enterprise and Engagement Team
Placement
Employability Leads/ADs/UEA Employability Exec
School of HSC Management
Admissions
Teaching and Learning
Enterprise and engagement
Post graduate study
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

8. EMPLOYABILITY AND FMH Graduate prospects
Further study strategy for graduates
Exploring the DLHE data to establish any areas for improvement
Embedding employability within the curriculum
TEF and associated learning and teaching strategy to include employability elements
Encourage student engagement with Careers Service
Increasing engagement with employers and potential employers
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

9. EMPLOYABILITY AND FMH - CHALLENGES
Cultural change required within FMH and wider UEA re FMH and employability
Changes to FMH student fees
Changes to Health and Social care employment landscape and workforce planning – we need to work with employers and respond to the changes
Impact of changes in DLHE data collection to 15 months post graduation
Impact of new Education providers
Impact of degree apprenticeships on standard degree provision
Adapting what we have to offer our students so that they are career ready at the point of graduation
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

10. EMPLOYABILITY AND FMH
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

11. EMPLOYABILITY AND FMH
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

12. EMPLOYABILITY AND FMH
The Employability Development Portfolio The UEA Healthcare Employability Development Portfolio (EDP) - an evidence based tool to maximise a student’s employability transition within university, into employment and beyond.
BACKGROUND
Focus group research was completed with Healthcare academics, students and employers to establish the attributes and characteristics that maximise an individual’s employability - over and above the requirements for professional registration.
EMPLOYABILITY DOMAINS
The employability themes from the focus group research discussion were renamed as “employability domains”.
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

13. ADMISSIONS AND EMPLOYABILITY
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

14. ADMISSIONS
Students often cite employment opportunities as a prime reason for choice
Employability is a question commonly asked at open days
Employers are keen to be involved throughout the admissions, recruitment and marketing process including:
Person specification
Interviewing
Open days
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

15. ADMISSIONS
Case studies of alumni are used on our website to demonstrate where our graduates are employed
Employers are evident in our marketing
Guaranteed offer of employment for UEA nursing students, without interview, in some trusts
Trusts offering ‘bespoke’ rotations for the right student
Sponsorship
Bank work during programme
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

16. LEARNING TEACHING AND QUALITY AND EMPLOYABILITY
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

17. LEARNING TEACHING AND QUALITY
Externality and the employment agenda is a ‘given’ and central to informing the provision design, delivery and quality judgements made of our taught provision
So what does this mean for us…
Academic autonomy is rarely an option- we have to collaborate…
Our learning and teaching activity must be professionally accredited, authentic and driven by a ‘fitness for purpose and practice’ agenda
We must be flexible, inclusive and interdisciplinary whilst acting as gatekeepers of the professions- UG and PGT are different worlds…
We need to fulfil our commissioners contractual expectations, be competitive at tender – but are mindful of league tables…
We are quality assured regularly and extensively by multiple stakeholders- who have different views of what is required…
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

18. LEARNING TEACHING AND QUALITY EMPLOYER INVOLVEMENT:
CURRICULA DESIGN
UEA
Employer needs
PSRBs
Regulatory:
Annual monitoring
Exception reporting
Accreditation
Revalidation
Contractual:
Quarterly & annual monitoring and reporting
Student survey
Employer meetings
Service user meetings
DELIVERY
Embedded and explicit content
Practice learning
Applied and flexible methodologies
Authentic Assessment QA
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

19. LEARNING TEACHING AND QUALITY
CHALLENGES? Multiple masters = complexity Uncertainty and relentless change Competition Capacity The need for speed…
18/05/2017
UEA: Learning and Teaching Day

20. ENTERPRISE AND ENGAGEMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

21. 18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

22. ENTERPRISE AND ENGAGEMENT
Looking forward we need to be better placed to:
Recognise that the working landscape is constantly shifting and changing. Being able to deliver enterprise and engagement is becoming a necessity;
Enable students to see the value of the engagement activities and celebrate their achievements;
Provide more opportunities for students to develop their enterprise ideas thereby enhancing their employability.
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

23. POST GRADUATE RESEARCH AND EMPLOYABILITY
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

24. POST GRADUATE RESEARCH
At induction Career Central provide case studies of people who have studied for PhD and what paths their careers have taken. There are many transferable skills associated with PhD not just research and not just academia. PGR students are encouraged to consider career pathways and options as part of the initial training needs analysis which can be reviewed at each Annual Progress meeting
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

25. POST GRADUATE RESEARCH
The new training needs analysis process for students and personal development plan will have a focus on the future and how the research developer framework domains relate to a future career. This is aimed at helping students engage with their training pathway to develop their personal skills set. This encourages students to lift their heads up to look forward and not just look down at their research projects.
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

26. ACADEMIA AND EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS
Training for PGRs who want to teach HSC have created developmental roles for teaching fellows
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

27. CONCLUSIONS AND MOVING FORWARD
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

28. MOVING FORWARD
Admissions Degree apprenticeships Learning Teaching and Quality Enterprise and engagement Post Graduate research
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

29. CONCLUSIONS
Employability landscape is changing for FMH FMH needs to adapt to respond to the changing landscape to ensure our students are career ready at the point of graduation Associate Deans within the faculty need to work together so that student employability is maximised at every point of their journey – a marriage of Associate Deans is essential.
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day

30. QUESTIONS
18/05/17
UEA Learning and Teaching Day