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Roles & Responsibilities Form 2022 Entry - Guidance Notes

Thank you for your application to study medicine at Keele University. Your application will be

assessed only on the information provided in the UCAS application and the roles & responsibilities

(R+R) form. This form needs to be completed by all home students (i.e. those classified as having

home fees status). If you are unsure of your fees status, we recommend you complete and return the

form anyway, in case it is needed.

The R+R form is our main tool for selecting home applicants for interview. It provides an opportunity

for you to tell us about experiences you have undertaken that demonstrate your direct engagement

with people in a supportive, assistive or caring role, your ability to handle responsibility and your

understanding of how somebody has benefited from some help, support or care you have provided.

The experiences you draw on to complete the form are not expected to be medical and do not need to

have been undertaken in formal caring settings. Please note that we do not give any credit for

workplace shadowing. We discourage overseas work-experience placements, especially where these

involve unnecessary air travel and/or performing work that displaces local people from paid

employment.

Submitting the form

A link to access the form via the Keele applicant portal will be sent to all relevant applicants on a

rolling basis as we receive applications from UCAS. On logging into the portal, you can then select

the R+R form link. Once a form is submitted the link will no longer be available (from the next time you

version you want us to read.

The form must be completed and submitted by 11.59 pm (GMT) on Monday 01 November 2021.

You will be sent an e-mail acknowledging receipt of your form: this is your evidence that your form

has been submitted, so please make sure you know where to find it if you need to contact us about

your form later. We will not accept forms that are submitted after the deadline. If you do not

have an e-mail saying your form has been received before the deadline, your form will not be

assessed. We recommend that you submit your form well before the deadline to allow time for

dealing with any technical problems that might arise.

Please note that the deadline date is based on a UCAS application deadline of 15 October. You will

be informed of new dates if the UCAS deadline for 2022 applications changes.

If you do not receive the e-mail acknowledgement or have any difficulties submitting the form,

please contact us immediately.

Scoring the form

Admissions tutors will assess the R+R form for evidence of the NHS Constitution values using the

following criteria:

• commitment to one or more role(s) involving direct engagement with people, ideally with an

element of care or support

• the value of the role(s) you undertook, in terms of contribution to the wellbeing of others and/or

demonstration of appropriate personal characteristics

• the level of responsibility taken in any of the above roles

• a clear example of a situation where you did something that had a significant beneficial

outcome for another person

• any exceptional achievements or circumstances

GUIDANCE NOTES

1. Roles and responsibilities may be paid or voluntary and do not have to be in the health or social

care sectors. Credit may be given for caring for family members or friends, but only if there is

both a time commitment and depth of caring that goes above and beyond that which would be

expected in normal family life. Mature applicants using your regular work for examples will need

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Roles & Responsibilities Form 2022 Entry - Guidance Notes

Thank you for your application to study medicine at Keele University. Your application will be assessed only on the information provided in the UCAS application and the roles & responsibilities (R+R) form. This form needs to be completed by all home students (i.e. those classified as having home fees status). If you are unsure of your fees status, we recommend you complete and return the form anyway, in case it is needed. The R+R form is our main tool for selecting home applicants for interview. It provides an opportunity for you to tell us about experiences you have undertaken that demonstrate your direct engagement with people in a supportive, assistive or caring role, your ability to handle responsibility and your understanding of how somebody has benefited from some help, support or care you have provided. The experiences you draw on to complete the form are not expected to be medical and do not need to have been undertaken in formal caring settings. Please note that we do not give any credit for workplace shadowing. We discourage overseas work-experience placements, especially where these involve unnecessary air travel and/or performing work that displaces local people from paid employment.

Submitting the form

A link to access the form via the Keele applicant portal will be sent to all relevant applicants on a rolling basis as we receive applications from UCAS. On logging into the portal, you can then select the R+R form link. Once a form is submitted the link will no longer be available (from the next time you log in), so please make sure that (a) you keep a copy for reference and (b) the form you submit is the version you want us to read. The form must be completed and submitted by 11.59 pm (GMT) on Monday 0 1 November 2021. You will be sent an e-mail acknowledging receipt of your form: this is your evidence that your form has been submitted, so please make sure you know where to find it if you need to contact us about your form later. We will not accept forms that are submitted after the deadline. If you do not have an e-mail saying your form has been received before the deadline, your form will not be assessed. We recommend that you submit your form well before the deadline to allow time for dealing with any technical problems that might arise. Please note that the deadline date is based on a UCAS application deadline of 15 October. You will be informed of new dates if the UCAS deadline for 2022 applications changes. If you do not receive the e-mail acknowledgement or have any difficulties submitting the form, please contact us immediately.

Scoring the form

Admissions tutors will assess the R+R form for evidence of the NHS Constitution values using the following criteria:

commitment to one or more role(s) involving direct engagement with people, ideally with an element of care or support
the value of the role(s) you undertook, in terms of contribution to the wellbeing of others and/or demonstration of appropriate personal characteristics
the level of responsibility taken in any of the above roles
a clear example of a situation where you did something that had a significant beneficial outcome for another person
any exceptional achievements or circumstances GUIDANCE NOTES

Roles and responsibilities may be paid or voluntary and do not have to be in the health or social care sectors. Credit may be given for caring for family members or friends, but only if there is both a time commitment and depth of caring that goes above and beyond that which would be expected in normal family life. Mature applicants using your regular work for examples will need

to demonstrate a level of commitment or initiative over and above your normal job role, particularly when writing about caring experiences in section 2.

There is space on the form for up to four roles and responsibilities. If you have more than four to choose from then please use recent experiences (ideally within three years of application) and choose the most important. You do not need to write about every experience listed, but you should list every experience that you write about in later sections so this can be validated from the references provided. Maximum credit for duration of work experience is given for more than 160 hours. Admissions tutors may choose not to count hours undertaken in roles that do not constitute significant engagement in caring for or supporting people with specific needs. If you have more than 160 hours’ experience it is better to concentrate on providing details of the experiences that required most commitment. Mature applicants will be likely to benefit from including some voluntary experience in addition to regular paid employment (see note 5). Bonus points may be awarded in this section for exceptional dedication and commitment.
“Work experience tourism” is discouraged: we expect you to have undertaken significant experiences within your own communities. If experiences are undertaken overseas for good reason – e.g. if you spend all long holidays with family in another country – this should be stated explicitly. No credit will be given for activities undertaken overseas that would not be permissible in the UK.
Although shadowing and observation may be useful in understanding the roles of a doctor, we will not give credit for it in assessing the R+R form. In the space provided make sure you tell us some of the things you actually did and reflect on how you demonstrated the attributes required of a doctor, keeping in mind the values described in the NHS Constitution. You will not be credited for anything you watched somebody else do: only for things you did yourself. Please do not exaggerate your role, e.g. by stating that you performed or assisted with medical procedures while unqualified. Any suggestion that you acted beyond legally permissible limits may be investigated for potential safeguarding issues. This will be deleterious to your application and may result in significant problems for the organisation that hosted you for this experience.
Mature applicants will not be given credit for describing activities that are part of their job role in section 2 or 4: credit will only be given for things you have done on your own initiative that go beyond the requirements of the role in which you are employed. Mature applicants with a high level of responsibility in their job as defined in note 6 will be given credit for this in section 3. Activities undertaken in any voluntary role(s) – whether related to healthcare or not – will be given credit but these must involve direct engagement with people and should ideally involve a contribution to care, support or some other form of help to people with specific needs.
We need to know about one or more responsibilities you have undertaken. By responsibility we mean a leadership role, position of trust or some activity demonstrating organisational ability. Clearly the level of responsibility expected will be different for school leavers, graduates and more mature applicants. We do not give credit simply for titles (e.g. head boy/girl, ranger/young leader, etc.): we need to know what you actually had responsibility for, whom you had responsibility to and how you exercised this responsibility in practice. Specific responsibilities are likely to gain more credit than general ones, and telling us something particular you have achieved as a result of taking on a responsibility is likely to help your application. It is better to write in detail about one responsibility than give us a list with little detail. Many students use mentoring as an example of responsibility, this does not usually attract much credit as it is often not clear how much responsibility is involved and how this has been discharged. When someone has benefitted from your mentorship it is better to use this as an example of someone you have helped in section 4.
You should provide an example of something you have done that has made a positive difference to someone else. Candidates who give us an example with an important benefit for someone from a sustained effort will attract more marks than those giving examples from a one-off incident. We do expect you to write (with appropriate regard for confidentiality) about an individual you have helped. In most cases it is appropriate to use examples that demonstrate your effectiveness when undertaking voluntary or other caring/supportive experiences, e.g. how an individual benefitted from your engagement with them. Mature applicants who give an example from your normal work will need to demonstrate commitment over and above that expected in your job role (see note 5). If the example provided relates to family or friends, the

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