Becoming a Learner in the Workplace: A Student's Guide to Practice and Work-Based Learning in Health and Social Care - Softcover

This book places practice and work-based learning in the context of preparing to become a work-based learner. The text provides learners with the skills to progress to being qualified senior support workers.

Dr Mark Wareing has taught students in many areas of health and social care. This has enabled him to develop an interest in work-based and practice-based learning and to publish research on mentoring and the lived experience of work-based learners. Mark completed his nurse training at the Birmingham College of Nurse Education and held a number of posts before establishing the specialist urological nursing service in North Oxfordshire as a clinical nurse specialist employed by the Department of Urology in Oxford. From 2004 until March 2015 Mark was an educational facilitator and then senior lecturer in health and social care at Birmingham City University. He is now Director of Practice Learning within the Department of Healthcare Practice at the University of Bedfordshire. Mark is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds academic associate membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development.