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Study Details: 2 year FT
On successful completion of this Master’s degree, you will be eligible to register as a midwife on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Professional Register.
Midwives offer care and support to pregnant women/birthing people, their partners, and their families. They provide care throughout the pregnancy continuum which includes antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care.
Equality and diversity is important for providing high- quality care for women/birthing persons and their families. Within our midwifery programmes we aim to provide a truly inclusive curriculum recognising and valuing difference in broadest sense. We also strive to ensure all our midwifery students feel valued and included.
The MSc Midwifery Post RN (pre-registration) programme is aimed at Adult Nursing graduates (NMC registered) wishing to pursue a career in midwifery. This is an opportunity to study midwifery at master’s level, providing a strong basis for a future career in clinical work, alongside research, education, management, leadership or consultancy.
Our Midwifery curriculum is UNICEF Baby Friendly accredited and in February 2021 we achieved the Gold Award status demonstrating our highest commitment to infant feeding education for student midwives.
You will:
Learn to practice autonomously, preparing for a career as a registered midwife
Develop the skills to provide care throughout the pregnancy continuum
Develop and maintain a portfolio of personal and professional development (PDP)
Applicants will be NMC registered Adult Nurses, with evidence of study within the last 3-5 years. You should have some nursing experience of caring for birthing persons, children and families in settings such as gynecological and sexual health services would be of value. Newly qualified adult nurses would be considered
Applicants should be of good health and character, have excellent communication skills, and have a good understanding of the varied and complex role of the midwife
Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Clearance is a condition of entry on to the programme.
As part of the selection process you may be invited to interview, in line with NMC requirements.
International students would need to be registered as Adult Nurses with the UK NMC.
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Our students have 100% employment rates on qualification both in local maternity services and across the UK including Channel Islands & Isle of Man.
Our students are welcomed across the world and have gone on to work in Australia, Spain, Dubai, Africa and many other countries.
Most of our students on qualification work as midwives in hospital and or the community setting or working in continuity of care teams providing care to a small caseload of women.
With experience many of our students have gained specialist midwife posts such as: Specialists Perinatal Mental Health Midwife, Outreach Midwife, Bereavement Midwife, Consultant Midwife, Research Midwife, Midwifery Lecturer & more.
Some midwives may go on to other related roles in services such as Sexual Health and Health Visiting, Neonatal Care and more.
This course will enable you to meet the requirements for registration on the midwifery part of the NMC Professional Register.
It is underpinned by the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council pre-registration midwifery standards and will provide a broad, balanced, coherent, and diverse experience of midwifery practice. Each year consists of a combination of theory and practice-based modules. You will be expected to maintain a portfolio of personal and professional development (PDP). This course also includes assessment of clinical skills and medicines management.
Midwifery practice proficiencies will be assessed within the clinical setting recorded in an on-line document the MORA (Midwifery Ongoing Record of Achievement). Academic modules follow the 6 Domains of the NMC Pre-registration standards and will prepare you to achieve the clinical competencies throughout each year in order to progress towards fulfilling the role of accountable, autonomous practitioner at the point of registration. You will progress from year one as a novice to an accountable practitioner at the end of year two.
In second year (trimesters two and three), you will complete a 60 credit ‘Complex Midwifery Care Project’.
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