News

PARE Team Manager Training 08/03/2018

The next PARE Team Manager training is on:-

Monday 26th March 

 2.00pm - 4.30pm 

and will be held in 

University of Cumbria’s 

Lancaster campus, The Keep, room K2

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

PARE Team Manager training 01/02/2018

The next PARE training session is scheduled for 

Wednesday 28th February   

 2.00pm - 4.30pm 

and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

Assignment of student assessment document to all Hub and Elective/Spoke placements - Merseyside /Cheshire 19/01/2018

Up to now, a student assessment record could only be assigned to a Hub placement regardless of whether the student was scheduled to make one or more shorter visits as Electives or Spokes in that time period. As a result the Elective/ Spoke placement mentors could then only access the document and timesheet whilst the student was logged into their account.

Following some changes by the web developers, it will be possible for all aspects of a student record to be directly linked to each part of the placement, for all future uploads of student placement data. The benefits of this will be:-

• The student document will be viewable by every placement that the student is scheduled to visit during that placement period. Only the appropriate pages will be available to each of the placements i.e.  If a student is attending a Elective/Spoke the mentor will only be able to add content in the Spoke pages and any other relevant pages to that Elective/Spoke placement whilst the Hub mentor will have access to all the Hub pages.
• Students attending an Elective /Spoke placement can now have mentors assigned to them, thus removing the need for all content to be added through the student's PARE login.

To ensure this works seamlessly each university Placement /Practice Offices will need to ensure that when loading their .CSV files it:

• lists all the Hubs and Electives for each student in that cohort;
• records the exact start and end date of the Hub (no need for umbrella dates);
• records the exact start and end dates for each of the Elective/Spokes;
• and that the PARE team are then advised of the correct document to be switched on for that cohort. (HEIs using InPlace will not need to use the CSV import function)

The should help to improve the experience for the Spoke/Elective mentor and will help PARE team managers to identify where mentors still need PARE accounts to be created to them.

PARE Team Manager training 14/12/2017

The next PARE training session is scheduled for Tuesday 23rd January   from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

Access to Demonstration documents 21/11/2017

To protect the intellectual property of all the separate university documents it has been decided to password protect the access to them.

December - Team Manager training 14/11/2017

The next PARE training session is scheduled for Thursday 7th December  from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

PARE - Team Manager training 04/10/2017

The next PARE training session is scheduled for Wednesday 25th October  from 2.00 -4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

If you would like to book one of the 20 places then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - Inter Professional Learning Event for students 05/09/2017

PARE Traning 04/09/2017

The Pare team are organising a series of monthly training sessions. 

The first session is scheduled for Tuesday 26th September  from 2.00 -4.00pm and will be held in the University of Chester’s Clatterbridge site, computer suite.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local  NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhance Training Practices (ETPs).

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

If you would like to book one of the 20 places then please click on the link below and leave your details.  

Book your place here

Supporting Learners in Clinical Practice Study Day 23/08/2017

Edge Hill University, 6th September.

Teaching, learning and assessing in practice is a vital element & process in the experience of many students. Mentorship is integral to that experience throughout graduate, postgraduate, professional & non-professional programmes. A new set of standards relating to mentors will be reviewed.

Programme

·         9.00 – Registration

·         9.30 – Keynote speaker (TBC)

·         10.00 – Overview of the Standards

·         10.30 – Refreshments

·         10.45 – Workshop (4 groups) – Overview of the new Standards

·         12.00 – Lunch

·         1.00 – Awards** (see Website for nomination link)

·         1.30 – Workshop

·         2.15 – Refreshments

·         2.30 – Workshop

·         3.15 – Overview of the Standards Feedback

**       Innovation for Practice Learning, Placement Experience of the Year, Outstanding Contribution to Practice

Edge Hill University 20/06/2017

Nursing students documents have now gone live

Bolton University 20/06/2017

The University of Bolton are planning a Mentor conference for up to 200 delegates on 7th July. There will be workshop sessions repeated 3 times during the day this will include a workshop on the on line PARE. 

All Learners Celebration Event 30/05/2017

Calling ALL Health & Social Care Learners!

Are you a current learner on a Health and Social care Programme?
Would you like to contribute to future multi professional working and inter professional learning?
Would you like to participate in a Question & Answer Learner panel?
Do you want to share your experience with other learners?

Come and Join us!

Be a part of YOUR event!

Lunch & refreshments provided

Contact Andy Morris Workbased Education Facilitator

Email; andy.morris2@nhs.net

Date: 16th June 2017

09.00 – 16.00

Venue: Liverpool John Moore’s University,
School of Health, Main Lecture Theatre,
Tithebarn Building,
81 Tithebarn Street,
L2 2ER

Review of PARE 02/02/2017

The University of Chester are hosting two meetings to review the initial phased introduction of the PARE system, from both the NHS and the Academic perspective.
All PEFs and Team managers in the North West are cordially invited to attend.

The dates are :-

• Wednesday 15th February, Riverside Campus, CRV 150, 10.00am.
• Monday 24th April, Warrington Campus, room TBC, 2.00pm

The PARE team will be in attendance to address any PARE queries or issues.

To register your interest, and request a parking space, please contact Denise Dixon at d.dixon@chester.ac.uk.
We look forward to meeting up with you at one of these meetings.

Merge of CWP and NHS Western Cheshire Placements 31/01/2017

The placements that were traditionally associated with the old NHS Western Cheshire Trust  have now finally been merged with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership.  All managers who previously had dual access to the two Trusts should now be able to access all placements from their PARE account without having to toggle between the two areas.

New Implementation Lead 22/11/2016

Paul Barber has now been appointed to the role of OnlinePARE Implementation Lead. Paul has over 40 years experience working as a nurse in the North West and as a senior lecturer at the University of Chester. Paul will be working two days per week for the OnlinePARE project. Paul's role will involve linking closely with Trusts/PVIs and universities to ensure a smooth roll-out of the online assessment process throughout the North West.
From early 2017, Paul will be holding regional training sessions for Trust staff and academics.

You can contact Paul by email: paul@onlinepare.net

Android App Launch 07/11/2016

We are pleased to announce the launch of the OnlinePARE App. The App is developed specifically for students who attend placement areas with limited access to WIFI and 3G/4G signal. The App will work without an active internet connection, while still offering the same functionality as the web version. Any document updates made by a student whilst offline will sync automatically once the student's device is connected the internet. The Android App can be found on the Google Play store. We have plans to develop an iOS version for iPhone & iPad in 2017.

We are in the process of a phased launch of the App. Currently, first year nursing students at Manchester Metropolitan University are using the app, with other universities and courses to follow in early 2017.

Save time importing student placement data 04/10/2016

We have released a new feature aimed at saving time for university placement offices. Importing CSV files can be time consuming and requires placements name to match ours. Now there is another option, by using our placement ID in place of the trust and placement it will automatically populate those fields.
You can view our placement IDs in the placement manager. For more information about this new feature please email us: info@onlinepare.net

Manage Placements (PEFs) 19/07/2016

We have added a new section under the User tab to enable PEFs to manage their placement areas more efficiently.

Help Guides 06/06/2016

We have extended the number of help guides and videos available to students, trust/PVI staff and universities. We have also made these resources easier to find.

Some of these improvements include:

• Relevant help guides will appear in the left navigation pane of any page with an associated help guide.
• Dashboard widget for general help files.
• Created a YouTube channel to host all video guides. View YouTube channel here
• Alternatively, videos can be downloaded, this is aimed at users who cannot access YouTube or need offline access to these resources.

Quarterly Report 28/01/2016

HEI staff and PEFs now have the ability to print a quarterly report for all placements in their trust/organisation based upon all students that attended a placement their during the 3 months of that quarter.

Download Any Page In Your PAR 19/10/2015

You can now download any page in your online practice document. 

Download Reports 09/10/2015

HEI and Trust staff can now download a statistical report to PDF. 

Download Your Full PAR 10/08/2015

On your dashboard, you can now download your full practice document as a whole. 

Certificate Of Placement 05/08/2015

Students are now able to download a certificate of placement as a PDF file which highlights that they have completed an evaluation of their practice learning experience whilst on their hub placement.

PAR Pilot 15/07/2015

The Online Practice Assessment Record for Cheshire and Merseyside Student Nurses has now reached the Alpha stage of development, and will be functionality tested by a small group of students and mentors from Chester University and Edge Hill University before being formally piloted in some areas from September 2015.

The PARE team are also developing multi-professional versions of online practice assessment documentation for professions such as Physiotherapy, Midwifery and Social Work, used in a number of Universities such as UCLan, Salford, and Manchester. The aim is to have the first of these documents online by November 2015, with a rolling programme of development for other groups and universities thereafter.

If you require any further information on the above developments, please contact m.brownsell@chester.ac.uk or the PARE team.

Raising Concerns In Practice 04/06/2015

It is sometimes hard to know what to do when students feel something isn't quite right on placement so we have now put together a detailed guide for learners to help students follow a procedure set out by Heath Education North West.

Evaluation 18/02/2015

The Evaluation element of the PARE Tool has reached an exciting stage with three North West HEIs implementing the tool. Currently, University of Chester, Edge Hill and Salford University are introducing the tool to their nursing students.

From March 2015 two more North West organisations, namely University of Cumbria and Manchester Metropolitan will each be bringing up to two further cohorts of their nursing students online.

Liverpool John Moores University will be bringing their Nursing students online in May 2015.

Allied Health Professions 18/02/2015

We are delighted that two North West HEIs have introduced the Evaluation tool to the following AHP departments:
University of Salford: Introduced a cohort of Physiotherapy students to the tool in January 2015. Edge Hill University: A cohort of Operating Department Practitioner students are intending to utilise the online evaluation tool during their May 2015 placement.

Training Guides 18/02/2015

The PARE team are pleased to offer the following link which provides all academic and Trust staff with access to online training tutorials which cover all functionality within the Evaluation aspect of the tool. We ask that all PEFs and academic leads cascade this link to the staff involved in monitoring student placements to further their awareness and understanding of how to use the online tool.

Link to PARE training resources: Training Resources

Further News 18/02/2015

The PARE team will be facilitating working groups involving North West AHPs from late February - July 2015 in order to bring their students online. Continuous updates from the PARE site will be directed towards Placement areas and the HEI Academic Links for each profession.