Welcome potential students
About undertaking student placement with BCHS
Bendigo Community Health Services provides a supportive environment through a comprehensive Student Placement Program offered to post-secondary, undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Student placement aims to provide students with a meaningful experience that will enhance discipline-specific skills, graduate attributes and employability skills.
BCHS recognises the value of appropriately skilled health practitioners in regional primary health services.
We are committed to capacity building and workforce development for rural and regional students.
Opportunities afforded students on placement include integration into workplace health promoting teams, managing discrete projects, or a combination of both. BCHS offers a range of placement opportunities to the following disciplines:
- Community Services
- Counselling
- Exercise Physiology
- Medicine
- Nursing (Community, Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs)
- Occupational Therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Podiatry
- Psychology
- Public Health and Health Promotion
- Social Work
- Speech Pathology
(Please note: all volunteers are required to have a valid Police check).
Student placement testimonial
Bendigo TAFE community services student Cameron Jones completed a placement with our Humanitarian Settlement Services team in 2016.
Cameron shares his thoughts on the experience …
“I was welcomed into the team from day one and encouraged to make contributions and felt supported to participate as much as possible, not only by the settlement team, but by all the staff at BCHS.
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