Midwifery BSc (Hons)

The Midwifery BSc (Hons) will provide you with an excellent foundation for work in a range of contexts providing midwifery care and for further professional development in clinical practice, education and research. Midwives provide essential care, advice and support for women and their families during pregnancy, labour and early post-natal stages. As a midwife, you will share people’s personal experiences as well as helping to shape them. To thrive in this role you need to be adaptable, compassionate and dependable, with a sound knowledge of both everyday procedure and potential complications. To ensure you can confidently apply theory to practice, you will spend 50% of the year on placements in varied health settings, and simulate care and delivery in our Flexible Learning Environment and new midwifery care and delivery suite, which includes a replica hospital room and home birthing room. The values of the NHS constitution - respect, dignity, compassion and working together for patients and the recognition that patients come first in everything the NHS does are embedded in our curriculum. Midwives are needed all over the world. To give you the opportunity to experience midwifery abroad, we offer overseas observational placements. This course is offered in conjunction with local NHS trusts. Many of our graduates find that they leave university with a firm offer of employment from the NHS trust which provided their practice placements. The course also prepares you for further academic study at masters and doctoral level.