Continuing professional education

Return to midwifery practice
20 credits - level 5 and 6

The aim of this module is to meet the professional outcomes to enable midwives to renew their midwifery registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and re-enter registered practice with up-to-date competence, knowledge and skills and confidence in order to maintain safe and effective standards of client care. It is also designed to establish the concept of lifelong learning. At the end of the module midwifery returnees will have met the NMC (2010) PREP Outcomes for Returning to Practice.

To enable the Return to Midwifery Practice Module to meet individual needs of each returnee, the programme has adopted a work based learning approach. Thus study days and sessions will not be formally timetabled, but can be negotiated as part of the returnee's individualised programme of learning. The returnee can access study days and sessions with student midwives in the university setting and/or those run by the Trusts.

Summary

The returnee will be required to undertake a minimum of 60 hours of study which will take the form of attendance at study days/sessions. Further time will be provided for the returnee to undertake self-directed learning/reflection. Clinical practice will take place concurrently and the returnee will be required to undertake a minimum of 140 hours. (This will depend on the agreed length of the Return to Midwifery Practice module).

The length of the module will be discussed and agreed at interview. It is expected, completion of this programme will be achieved in six months (full time).

All clinical experience is based in one of the following NHS Trusts: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust (RSCH Brighton and Princess Royal, Haywards Heath); East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (EDGH Eastbourne and Conquest Hastings); and Worthing and Southlands Hospitals (Worthing Hospital).

Entry requirements

The applicants must have:

Qualified in the United Kingdom as a midwife and to have previously registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council or have their qualification as a midwife accepted by the Nursing and Midwifery Council with a requirement to do a Return to Midwifery Practice programme and to be able to complete their programme in 6 months full-time.
Been accepted by a Trust for clinical placement.
Attend an interview with the module leader and Head of Midwifery or her/his deputy. The interview will include a numeracy and literacy test.

Application process

If you are interested in the return to midwifery practice module and wish to discuss it further or want to apply please contact:

Kim Hill
Senior Lecturer
Module Leader – Return to Midwifery Practice
University of Brighton
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Westlain House
Village Way
Falmer, Brighton
BN1 9PH

01273 644054
K.R.Hill@brighton.ac.uk

You need to contact the Head of Midwifery at a local Trust to discuss a clinical placement.

Trust Contact details:

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust (Brighton and Haywards Heath) – 01273 696955
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (Eastbourne and Hastings) – 01323 417400
Western Sussex NHS Trust (Worthing Hospital) – 01903 285222

Professional accreditation

Meet the NMC (PREP) requirements.

Contact

For further information please contact the University of Brighton module leader:

School of Nursing and Midwifery