8.4 PSW Clinical Agency Preceptor Professional Practice Expectations
PSW Agency Preceptor Role
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 will also facilitate a student’s learning goals.
Role 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 learning 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 Liaison
- Participate in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative partnership with the PSW student and Fanshawe College clinical liaison
- Demonstrate knowledge and expertise as a Personal Support Worker, including role in the setting and skills
- Connect with the PSW student frequently and communicate expectations for the Clinical Professional Practice Placement
- Seek out professional development opportunities to enhance knowledge of the role of the PSW and to strengthen understanding of teaching and learning
- Review the Professional Practice Course Resources Hub to gain an understanding of student Professional Practice Placement expectations and domains of practice required for graduation
- Guide the student in becoming confident in completing the domains of practice competencies in the PSW Professional Practice Placement Curriculum
- Communicate expectations for the PSW Professional Practice Placement
- Available to answer questions and teach/guide the PSW student in practice and skills
- Review, evaluate, and grade all Clinical Professional Practice requirements in partnership with the PSW student’s Liaison
- Bring forth clinical and instructional knowledge of providing client care
- Approachable and receptive demeanour to students’ learning needs, and provides 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 the student is ill
For further reading on the role of the Agency Preceptor, consult the resources on Mentorship in Health Care from the Canadian Medical Association.
