Midwifery

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Course Summary

• Qualify as a professional midwife with the skills and knowledge for a successful career.

• Learn to care for women, newborn infants and their families.

• Gain hands-on experience through clinical placements in various healthcare settings.

• Respond to increasing complexity in antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.

• Work alongside experienced healthcare professionals to enhance your learning.

• Stay ahead with training in the latest midwifery technologies and techniques.

Our BSc (Hons) Midwifery course is a dynamic and forward-thinking programme that encompasses all facets of modern midwifery. You’ll be prepared to lead in the care of women, birthing individuals, newborns and families while collaborating within integrated care teams. You’ll graduate with a robust portfolio showcasing your competencies and confidence to embark on a fulfilling career as a qualified midwife.

How you learn

The course is designed to promote independent, lifelong learning. You’ll benefit from a balanced approach that combines 50% theoretical knowledge with 50% practical experience in clinical and community settings. You’ll learn with, from and about students from other health and social care courses. These experiences give you both a sound basis in midwifery and an understanding of how other professionals contribute to health and social care services.

We take a dynamic and interactive approach to learning, combining in-person teaching with the latest in digital education. Expert lecturers and industry professionals – including clinical midwives – lead seminars, workshops and practical sessions on campus.

Key themes

You’ll explore fundamental midwifery care and practices, maternal and neonatal health – alongside professional and ethical aspects of midwifery. We emphasise interprofessional education, promoting collaborative practice among health disciplines to enhance comprehensive care.

You’ll benefit from an integrated care curriculum that’s designed to provide a holistic approach to midwifery. You’ll be able to stay ahead by training in the latest midwifery technologies and techniques.

Additionally, the curriculum addresses maternal mental health, ensuring you can provide comprehensive support for women's emotional and psychological wellbeing. The course also includes advanced midwifery procedures, equipping you with skills for complex clinical situations.

Applied learning

Work placements

You’ll have opportunities across a range of clinical settings. After your first year, you’ll rotate to a different Trust for your second and third years. You’ll work both in hospitals and out in the community, with our placement partners there to support you at every step.

As part of your clinical practice, you’ll be allocated a small group of expectant mothers as part of your caseload. This means you get to experience the long-term challenge of providing quality care to a mother and her newborn, including being on call for the birth.

Throughout your placements, practice supervisors, link lecturers and practice assessors will guide and support you, ensuring you safely achieve the proficiency and autonomy required to build a professional portfolio that meets the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) proficiencies.

In your second year, you’ll also have the option of elective placement that allows you to work nationally or internationally.

Important notice: The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.

Year 1
Compulsory modules

Collaboration For Individual And Community Wellbeing | Practical (100%)
Foundations In Midwifery Care | Coursework (100%)
 One Credit Module Level 4 (Bsc Midwifery)
Personal And Professional Development | Coursework (100%)
Universal Midwifery Care In Labour And Birth | Exam (25%) , Practical (75%)

Year 2
Compulsory modules

Assessing And Addressing Complexity In Practice | Practical (100%)
Evidence And Enquiry For Practice | Coursework (100%)
One Credit Module Level 5 (Bsc Midwifery)
Personalised Midwifery Care | Coursework (100%)
The Midwife As A Skilled Practitioner | Practical (100%)

Final year
Compulsory modules

Complexity & Leadership In Professional Practice | Coursework (100%)
Management And Leadership Of Midwifery Care | Coursework (100%)
One Credit Module – Psrb Requirements
One Credit Module Level 6 (Bsc Midwifery)
Promoting Excellence In Midwifery Care | Practical (100%)
The Advancing Professional | Coursework (100%)

Coursework | Practical | Exam

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Nursing and Midwifery Council