Student Midwife

Job summary

BSc Hons Midwifery

22-month post experience (second registration for adult nurses) degree programme.

Oxford Brookes University, with practice placements at the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Applicants whose first language is not English will also be required to evidence IELTS with a minimum language pass of level 7 in all areas

Applications for September 2024 entry are now being considered, salary support and university fees will be funded by South East Region Health Education England. Nurses currently employed by GHNHSFT can be seconded to undertake this course.

The NMC Standards of Proficiency for Midwives (2019) require that, at the point of registration, students must demonstrate the ability to be an accountable, autonomous, professional midwife who can:
Provide safe and effective midwifery care

Provide universal care for all women, optimising normal physiological processes and promoting health and public health via assessment, screening and care planning

Provide additional care for women and newborns with complications by undertaking first line assessment and management of above.

Promote excellence in midwifery practice as a colleague, scholar and leader

In order to achieve this, the course will develop the students' knowledge, understanding and skills across a range of themes, including:
Evidence-based care and the importance of maintaining a current knowledge-base

The physical, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual safety of women and newborn infants

Communication and relationship building.

Working across the whole continuum of care and in all settings, and understanding the woman's and newborn infant's whole maternity journey

Providing continuity of care and carer

Ensuring that women, partners and families have all the information needed to fully inform their decisions

Anticipating, preventing, and responding to emergencies.

Public health, health promotion, and protection, including understanding and working to mitigate health and social inequalities

Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates hospitals on our two main sites in Cheltenham and Gloucester, and we're one of the largest NHS trusts in the country.

Our workforce of almost 8,000 staff provide high quality emergency, elective and specialist care across a range of clinical areas

Our maternity services provide exceptional choice to women and midwives offering a maternity service through a range of settings

It is expected that all employees uphold the values of the organisation as our values underpin everything we do and describe the way we expect our staff to behave towards our patients, families and carers and between each other. We have the following three values:
Caring

**Patients said**: "Show me that you care about me as an individual. Talk to me, not about me. Look at me when you talk to me."

Listening

**Patients said**: "Please acknowledge me, even if you can't help me right now. Show me that you know that I'm here."

Excelling

**Patients said**: "Don't just do what you have to, take the next step and go the extra mile."

The course will develop the students knowledge, understanding and skills across a range of themes via taught time in University, guided independent study, and time on practice placement. The programme will explore:
Evidence-based care and the importance of maintaining a current knowledge-base

The physical, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual safety of women and newborn infants

Communication and relationship building, working in partnership with women, including enabling and advocating for the human rights of women and children

Working across the whole continuum of care and in all settings, and understanding the womans and newborn infants whole maternity journey

Providing continuity of care and carer

Optimising the normal processes of reproduction and early life

Ensuring that women, partners and families have all the information needed to fully inform their decisions

Anticipating, preventing, and responding to emergencies, complications and additional care needs

Public health, health promotion, and health protection, including understanding and working to mitigate health and social inequalities

Interdisciplinary and multiagency working

Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding