Undergraduate: BSc (Hons) Midwifery Midwife
Introduction
Develop your knowledge and practical experience to become a Registered Midwife. You’ll gain the skills and confidence to work as part of multi-disciplinary healthcare team and as a leader. Study for an honours degree in Midwifery while you work, with no tuition fees.
Course highlights
- Develop an understanding of the professional knowledge, skills, and behaviours required of a midwife when delivering safe and effective person-centred midwifery care
- Work-based approach allows you to deliver impact in the workplace as you learn
- Successful completion of the course will enable you to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Midwife
If you’re currently working as a Midwifery Healthcare Assistant or Support Worker on a maternity ward, and aspire to become a registered midwife, then this degree apprenticeship is an ideal route to progress your healthcare career.
You’ll learn to become a confident, compassionate and responsive practitioner who will deliver safe and evidence-based care underpinned by contemporary health and social care policies, guidelines, and legislation (international, national, and local).
Key facts
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This apprenticeship is a full-time apprenticeship, which means that your 37.5 contracted working hours will be dedicated to the apprenticeship for three years. This is equally split between theory and practice.
We deliver the course in a flexible blend of face-to-face and online theory classes, directed learning activities and practice placements. This supports the development of a strong Community of Practice and role identity, an essential element in the development and implementation of a new professional role.
To achieve the requirements of the curriculum framework, you will spend time learning in a variety of practice settings, in which you will be supernumerary. In each of these setting, a Registered Midwife will provide supervision.
Reflective activities are used to encourage you to bring issues from your workplace setting to the online forums for discussion with your peers. We offer a range of guest lecturers who contribute to your learning including registered practitioners from health care settings.
Assessment
We use formative and summative assessment strategies in both theory and practice learning to provide you with opportunities to demonstrate your acquisition of practical skills and underpinning knowledge.
Assessments vary throughout the programme, and include multiple-choice testing, written assignments, and presentations. We also test medicine calculations online.
Assessment strategies, in accordance with the Midwifery Ongoing Record of Achievement (MORA), include assessment of a wide range of practice competencies, mapped to the NMC Standards for pre-registration midwifery programmes.
Modules
Each module will provide you with the opportunities to develop and practice your clinical skills to meet the NMC Standards of Proficiency for Midwives (2019). You will develop the ability to apply knowledge and skills learned, in a real-world clinical setting, working with a variety of service users, their families and carers. Simulation in the University Skills Laboratory supports practice in a safe environment.
Facilities and accreditation
Midwifery skills labs
Our Cambridge, Chelmsford and Peterborough campuses all offer purpose-built midwifery skills labs. The labs simulate many aspects of a working hospital ward and allow you to use sophisticated healthcare equipment.
You'll benefit from working in small groups to practise skills such as bed making, hand-washing, bandaging, communicating with patients, and applying and interpreting basic monitoring.
Approved by the NMC
This course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council which demonstrates that the skills, knowledge and attributes you’ll develop are aligned to the NMC professional standards. This means that on successful completion of the apprenticeship you’ll be able to register as Registered Midwife.
What our apprentices say
Temidayo
“I chose the apprenticeship because I was able to continue working and did not lose any financial benefits. I was able to study at any pace in harmony with my life as a family man.“
TemidayoRegistered Nurse Degree Apprentice
RACHEL
“I think there's a misconception that apprenticeships are just for school leavers. I'm 51 and it works for me and my life. I bring all of my past life and career experience and in addition it also works around my family life.”
RACHELRegistered Nurse Degree Apprentice
FLEUR
“I was diagnosed with dyslexia and was not confident to go to university. However, since starting the apprenticeship, ARU and CUH have been so supportive and have really helped with my confidence. The opportunity to do an apprenticeship really came at the right time and I couldn't be prouder of myself for just stepping my foot in the door and going for it.”
FLEURRegistered Nurse Degree Apprentice
Careers
Upon completion of the BSc (Hons) Midwifery, you’ll be able to register with the NMC on the Midwifery register.
You'll acquire the knowledge and skills to support your team in providing quality care, as well as transferrable skills and professional values required within your role to ensure that the safety of the public remains paramount.
The transferable skills you’ll develop include skills such as critical thinking, decision making, communication, team working, leadership, problem solving, teaching and clinical skills for safe and effective practice.
Entry requirements
In addition to the person specifications that have been set out by your employer, these are the entry requirements for the course.
If you have any questions about these entry requirements, please speak to your employer first. Applications are made online, demonstrating digital literacy skills.
- 120 UCAS Tariff Points, or
- Access to Higher Education Diploma from a QAA recognised Access to HE course in health studies, health science, nursing and midwifery or another science-based course equivalent to 120 UCAS points, or
- Senior Healthcare Support Worker Level 3 Apprenticeship.
- GCSE pass (4 and above) English Language (or equivalent)
- GCSE pass (4 and above) Maths (or equivalent)
- Evidence of capability for digital and technological literacy through the application process
- Ability to demonstrate a good command of written and spoken English.
Successful applicants are required to:
- Pass a values-based interview
- Provide a suitable reference either from an employer or academic tutor
- Demonstrate evidence of good health and character through an enhanced Disclosure Barring Service check. A satisfactory Overseas Criminal Record Check/Local Police Certificate is also required, in addition to a DBS Check, where they have lived outside of the UK in the last five years for six months or more.
- Have occupational health clearance, including immunisations as necessary to attend placement.
We welcome applicants from under- represented groups.
Recognition of prior learning/advanced standing is not permitted for pre-registration midwifery programmes (NMC, 2019a, Standard 1.3).
Apprenticeship vacancies
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