Your learning will predominantly be based at our Lansdowne Campus (though Talbot campus is also utilised), or our Yeovil Campus for some of our Adult Nursing students, or Portsmouth campus for some of our Midwifery students.
However, clinical placements will be organised by locality in a variety of places within Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire in order to provide the necessary breadth of experience.
Please note - placement localities are allocated at the time of your offer for your course. You will not be able to change your main placement locality once you start. You will need to consider the realities of placements within the geographical area you have been given and be realistic as to whether this will be manageable and suitable for you 鈥 whilst being flexible may in some circumstances increase your chances of success, being unrealistic will lead to challenges.
Although you will be allocated a placement locality, to ensure that you get to experience a range of placement experiences needed for successful course completion, you may be expected to change location for a portion of your placement time.
Our trust locations
Our geographical footprint for placement is vast 鈥 covering four counties in the South; Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. This ensures we are able to provide you with a wealth of clinical experience across a variety of areas of the healthcare service, including opportunities to experience placements in both urban and rural communities.
As a result, this will involve travel, in some cases this can be more than 40miles away from Bournemouth, and some travel will be outside normal working hours due to the nature of shift work. You must ensure that you have means to travel to your placement location at unsociable hours and this may require you to use short-term accommodation options in order to participate in your placement. To help you with this, the can support you with placement travel expenses and dual accommodation costs if required.