2.5 PSW Agency Preceptor/Mentor
PSW Agency Preceptor/Mentor
An individual who shares, provides resources, guides, and uses their knowledge, skills, and experience to facilitate a PSW student to improve their practice, knowledge, and confidence in caring for clients. The preceptor/mentor will also facilitate a student’s leaning goals.
Preceptor/Mentor Expectations
- Build inclusive, empowering, and student-centered relationships.
- Engage in conversations to provide support, guidance, and feedback for students.
- Provide safety and trust by demonstrating a nonjudgmental and supportive approach.
- Be available, attentive, patient, committed, and present.
- Bring forth a sense of safety and trust.
- Create a welcoming leaning environment.
- Collaborate with the student.
- Provide a responsible and ethical professional practice.
- Engage and interact in the PSW students’ learning and evaluations.
- Review PSW professional practice placement requirement forms.
- Communicate expectations with students, including coaching and providing constructive feedback.
- Provide thoughtful, reflective, and constructive feedback.
- Collaborate with both the student and the Fanshawe College Clinical Advisor.
- Participate in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative partnership with PSW students and Clinical Advisors.
- Demonstrate knowledge and expertise as a PSW, including the details of the role, setting, and skills.
- Connect with the PSW student frequently and communicate expectations for the Clinical Professional Practice Placements.
- Seek out professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge of the role of the PSW and to strengthen understanding of teaching and learning.
- Review, evaluate, and grade all Clinical Professional Practice requirements in partnership with the PSW student’s Clinical Advisor.
- Bring forth clinical and instructional knowledge of providing client care.
- Exhibit an approachable and receptive demeanor towards students’ learning needs, and provide continuous support.
- Be a positive role model displaying enthusiasm, positivity, and caring attributes, and portraying an enthusiastic, positive, and passionate display of the profession of Personal Support Workers.
- Know the procedures to follow if they are ill or a student is ill.
- Collaborate successfully with agency administrators and the Fanshawe College Clinical Advisor.
Image Description
The image depicts a circular relationship between four entities: a “PSW Student,” a “PSW Program Coordinator,” a “PSW Agency Preceptor,” and a “Fanshawe PSW Clinical Instructor” At the centre of the triangle is a large circle containing various action words that describe the nature of interactions and roles shared among the three entities. The words in the central circle are Collaborate, Guide, Mentor, Encourage, Lead, Connect, Communicate, Observe, Respect, Share, and Support.
