Overview

Our Midwifery (Shortened Programme) provides an innovative opportunity for adult nurses currently registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to acquire a registration in midwifery.

The course features a student-centred blended learning approach with practice-based learning in regional NHS trusts. The contemporary flexible delivery and supported distance learning using enhanced digital technologies, enables you to arrange your studies around both your commitments and learning needs.

Supporting women across the childbearing continuum, midwives provide safe, respectful, kind, compassionate, and holistic individualised care.

Your role will include public health promotion, providing evidence-based care and making positive contributions towards the health of women, babies and families, impacting the wider society.

As a skilled and competent practitioner, you will work in partnership with women to make decisions about their care, and with other team members you will demonstrate positive role modelling and leadership. You will develop skills that enable you to optimise normal physiological processes, promote positive outcomes and manage complications.

The MSc Midwifery (Shortened Programme) prepares you for this challenging and rewarding role using a problem-based learning approach which supports complex decision-making and teamwork.

You will develop your professional autonomy throughout the course by learning to apply critical thinking to clinical practice, which will prepare you to emerge as an innovative and dynamic midwife.

On completion of the programme, you will be entitled to register with the NMC as a midwife and practice within the UK.

Career prospects

There are a range of opportunities available for newly qualified midwives. You could work in a variety of settings, including:

hospitals

birthing centres

GP clinics

community teams

continuity teams

The majority of new midwives are employed by the NHS. However, opportunities do exist in private and independent hospitals and practices.

Career progression can include specialist roles, management and leadership roles, consultant midwife, research and education.

From 1 April 2023 (with the 5% NHS pay rise offered), the annual salary for a Band 5 midwife on the first pay point will be £28,407.

A midwife preceptorship tends to be approximately 6-24 months and varies between hospital trusts. Once the preceptorship is complete, a Band 6 is awarded. The annual salary for a Band 6 midwife (from 1 April 2023 with the 5% NHS pay rise offered) on the first pay point is £35,391.

Career opportunities

The University is committed to helping students develop and enhance employability and this is an integral part of many programmes. Specialist support is available throughout the course from Career and Employability Services including help to find part-time work while studying, placements, vacation work and graduate vacancies.