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Bank Holidays

Bank holidays do not count as placement hours. If your placement is closed for a bank holiday when you would normally have expected to be in work, you can either take the time to study if, permitted by your course, or you need to record the day as a day off, as shown below.

Study Days

Social Work students are generally permitted to take half a day (3.5 hours) per week as study time. If you are allowed to undertake study time as part of your practice module, you should record this time on your timesheets as worked placement time.

You need to include a note at the bottom of the timesheet, clearly stating how many hours and which days were taken as study time.

Recall Days

Recall Days are added automatically to ARC and will look like this on your record:

All recall days you have attended will be added to your total worked placement days at the end of the placement by the practice module staff – they will not appear on your clinical hours summary as ARC counts these hours as theory rather than practice time.