Professional Midwifery Advocate Preparation

If you're a current midwifery practitioner, the Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) course is for you. We'll combine academic rigour with practical applications to create a forward-thinking, dynamic midwifery practitioner with the ability to lead the services in which you work.

On successful completion of the course, you'll be able to undertake the role of the Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA). You'll also be appointable as a Professional Midwifery Advocate by your employing organisation. They will be ready to support you through a process of restorative clinical supervision, personal action for quality improvement and preparedness for professional revalidation through a process of reflection.

Our course has been developed to meet the PMA standards set by NHS England, including the mandated ten taught days.

We'll combine preparation for the PMA role with an innovative exploration of leadership and management in healthcare, examining their impact on organisations. Lectures on leadership will be shared with students on another course, to develop interprofessional networking.

Sound theoretical knowledge of leadership theory underpins the role and competencies of the PMA; our course aims to develop your skills and expertise in the four functions of the PMA: Education and Development (formative function), Restorative Clinical Supervision, Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality Control (normative function) and Personal Action for Quality Improvement.

Outline content

• Background to the development of the A-EQUIP model
• Role of the Professional Midwifery Advocate
• Adult learning style
• Restorative clinical supervision
• Compassionate resilience
• Quality Improvement - methods and measures
• Fundamentals of leadership and its defining characteristics. Differences between leadership and management and the role of the PMA
• The concepts of leadership and management in an organisational, social environmental and multicultural context
• The key roles that leaders play in creating visions and strategies, and the implementation of leadership and management strategies to meet current and future organisational demands
• Critical issues in leadership and management development, including how leaders are selected, development tools that are available and issues of evaluation
• Ethical leadership and advocacy
• Leading change, and the key challenges that organisations and individual managers encounter in the organisation
• Organisational culture and organisational dynamics. Performance management
• Leadership skills for building teams and securing involvement and participation. Core communication skills used by leaders to motivate followers
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Promoting collaborative working and engaged followership behaviour.