Field placement: information for host sites

Career Services · Sherman Quibb, Field Placement Coordinator · Room A-152 · ext. 2192

Several programs of the College require supervised practice at a cooperating site. Career Services arranges placements, maintains site agreements, and is the site’s contact for administrative matters. Instruction, assignment of the grade, and evaluation remain with the program faculty.

Requirements particular to each course are stated in its catalog description. Students are responsible for transportation to placement sites.

Requirements for host sites

1. Site agreement. A written agreement between the site and the College is executed before any student begins. Career Services prepares the agreement from the College’s template; a site may propose its own form, which is reviewed by the College before signature. The agreement states the term, supervision, insurance, the handling of records, and the conditions for ending a placement.

2. Supervision. The site designates a supervisor who is qualified in the occupation and who holds any license the supervised work requires. The supervisor directs the student’s work at the site and completes the program’s evaluation form at the midpoint and at the end of the placement. A student is not a substitute for the site’s staff and is not counted toward any staffing requirement of the site.

3. Liability and insurance. The College maintains liability coverage for students performing assigned placement duties within the scope of the site agreement, and provides a certificate of insurance on request. The site maintains its own general liability coverage. A student in an unpaid placement is not an employee of the College. Where a site pays a student, the site is the student’s employer for all purposes, including workers’ compensation. The College does not provide health or accident insurance for students in placement.

4. Site requirements. Immunization, credentialing, criminal records, drug screening, badging, and confidentiality requirements are established by the site and are not waived by the College. Costs of meeting them are the student’s unless the site pays them. Students follow the site’s confidentiality rules and the College’s photography and generative-tool policies; a patient, client, donor, or family member is not photographed.

5. Incidents and removal. An injury, exposure, or other incident involving a student is handled under the site’s procedure and reported to the Field Placement Coordinator the same day. A site may ask a student to leave; it notifies the Coordinator the same day. The College may withdraw a student from a site at any time. The Student Code of Conduct applies at placement sites.

Sites serving minors

These provisions apply at every site where a student may have contact with a person under 18, in addition to the site’s own requirements. Where the site’s requirement is stricter, the site’s requirement governs.

• Before the placement begins, the student completes any BCI and FBI criminal records check the site or Ohio law requires. Results are provided to the site under its procedure.
• A student is not left alone with a minor and is not assigned sole responsibility for a minor. Contact takes place in observable settings with site staff present.
• A minor is not photographed or recorded by a student for any purpose.
• Reporting. College employees, including faculty supervising a placement, report suspected child abuse or neglect directly and immediately to the county children services agency and to law enforcement, as Policy 6.55 requires. A student who suspects abuse or neglect follows the site’s procedure and may also report directly to the county children services agency or to law enforcement. No site agreement or College procedure requires a report to be made to the College first.

Hosting

Organizations interested in hosting a placement should contact the Field Placement Coordinator, ext. 2192. The site agreement template, the student placement handbook, and the supervisor evaluation forms are available from the Coordinator on request.