Clinical placement requirements

Clinical Practice Unit (CPU)

Building 10, Level 6, Room 120

02 9514 5122

Health.Clinical.Practice@uts.edu.au

  1. Check your vaccinations now.
    • Hepatitis B: An age appropriate course of vaccinations and copy of immune serology test. If a second course is required, it takes 4 months to complete, and serology test after 1 month.
    • DTPA: Valid adult dose, every 10 years.
    • MMR: 2 doses at 1 month apart, or copy of positive serology results, or birthdate before 1966.
    • Varicella: 1 dose given under 14 years, or 2 doses at 1 month apart or copy of positive serology results, or AIR recorded natural immunity.
    • Influenza: From March each year.

2. Apply for a National Police Check. Results in 24 hours.

3. Complete various NSW Health forms.

4. Apply for a HLTAID011 First Aid Course Now (Nursing only)

5. Apply for a NSW Working With Children’s Check (Nursing AND 18 years and over only). Select Volunteer 'Children's Health Services'

6. Complete forms in My Placement (Check the due dates)

  • Student inherent requirements form
  • First aid certificate details form (Nursing only)
  • Working with children’s check form (Nursing only)

7. Book a compliance workshop with UTS. 

8. Book a compliance day session with NSW Health.

9. Update your address in My Student Admin

10. Collect your:

  • Student iD Card from Student Services - Building 10, Level 2. 
  • Name badge from CPU - Building 10, Level 6.
  • UTS Placement uniform

The Clinical Practice Unit (CPU) assists students to ensure they supply the correct compliance documentation as per the NSW Health Policy Directives and UTS Requirements. Ultimately, it is the student’s responsibility to meet all compliance requirements for their Nursing or Midwifery Degree. Failure in adhering to the timelines indicated will mean you cannot attend placement and be at risk of failing your subject. 

Upon receiving letter of acceptance, make sure to:

By due dates indicated in MyPlacement complete:

  • UTS Inherent Student Declaration Form (All students required at the beginning of every session)
  • UTS Working With Children’s Check Details Form (Nursing students only)
  • UTS First Aid Certificate Details Form (Nursing students only)

Gather your NSW Health Requirements:

Newly enrolled UTS students are required to bring hard copies of compliance documentation to:

  1. Compliance workshop with CPU, and then
  2. Compliance Day Session with NSW Health.

Further detail will be provided upon enrolment into the course.

This includes: 

  1. Current Vaccination Evidence  
    In the form of a NSW Health Vaccination Record Card or Immunisation History Statement. International students can also provide vaccination evidence from their home country in English and ask a local GP to transcribe this onto a NSW Health Vaccination Record Card. 
  2. National Police Check  
    We recommend Veritas. 
    International students who have resided overseas for 6 months or more since turning 18 years of age must also provide an international police check OR an Overseas Statutory Declaration Form.
  3. Completed NSW Health Forms

After your compliance day session with NSW Health, you will be either:

Status

 What to do next

CompliantWell done! - Nothing to action at this stage, keep an eye out for further email updates
Temporary Compliant

You can gain temporary compliance only in relation to Hepatitis B if you have evidence of vaccination or completed serology test within the last 12 months. This will give you time to complete the full course and redo a serology test. You must follow the NSW Health schedule for Hepatitis B vaccination (opens an external link) which is specifically for students and may differ from what your GP advises.

I.e., If a student doesn’t have immunity after the 1st full vaccination course, they will be required to have a booster dose and complete the serology test 4 weeks after.

Not Compliant Refer to your ‘ClinConnect Student Verification Assessment Outcomes Receipt’ OR ‘checks’ tab in MyPlacement to see what is outstanding and follow instructions provided

Students who wish to update their compliance checks throughout their degree will need to:

Complete the relevant UTS forms in MyPlacement:

  • UTS Inherent Student Declaration Form (All students)
  • UTS Working with Children Check Details Form (Nursing students only)
  • UTS First Aid Certificate Details Form (Nursing students only)

AND

Refer to the ‘checks’ tab in MyPlacement for any outstanding NSW Check and instructions on how to update these.