The Midwifery Degree Apprenticeship programme is a full time three-year undergraduate program designed in line with the NMC Standards of Proficiency for Midwives (NMC, 2019). 

The modules provide the foundation for Apprentices to develop compassionate professionalism whereby they can be trusted in the care they provide. Apprentices will develop the skills, knowledge, values and competency that registered midwives need to support, and care for pregnant people, infants, families and the community.

Apprentices complete a range of core modules to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours that are needed to support and care for pregnant and birthing people, infants and families in all fields of Midwifery practice.

How you will learn

Apprentices will have a combination of theory and practice experiences throughout their programme. To support the application of theory to practice, consolidation of practice learning in the clinical skills environment will also be used to support learning and prepare apprentices for practice. This is achieved by providing a safe environment where alternative courses of action can be explored, tried and tested.

Learning will be facilitated through a range of classroom-based activities, skills laboratories and by electronic means such as online learning and web-based training.  Apprentices will be expected to evaluate and act in the same way as they would in a ‘real life’ situation, thereby learning is supported in a safe environment and can be used to augment and enhance practice learning experiences.