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 2025 entry are now being considered, salary support and university fees will be funded by South East Region Health Education England. This could be a potential secondment opportunity for Nurses currently employed by GHNHSFT.
For further information about Oxford Brookes University and the short course programme, please contact the ‘Admissions Lead’ Giada Giusmin ggiusmin@brookes.ac.uk
The proposed interview date is 24th June

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 / 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

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 9,000 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:
1. 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.”
2. Listening
Patients said: “Please acknowledge me, even if you can’t help me right now. Show me that you know that I’m here.”
3. 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

Contact Details
Emily Taylor (Student Practice Education Facilitator)
emily.taylor59@nhs.net
0300 422 5168
For further information about Oxford Brookes University and the short course programme, please contact Victoria Brown (vbrown@brookes.ac.uk)

• 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 / 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 inequalitie