UWS Midwifery

Hello,

I wonder if anyone has any insights/advice please.

I’m really keen to apply to midwifery next year (2025/26) at UWS Lanarkshire campus. I have two young children and will drive around an hour to campus, staying nearest to GGC area.

My question is, regarding placement, is there any way to request to work my placement within GGC rather than in Highlands etc? This is my dream career but I am so worried at the thought of being posted to The Highlands etc for my full placement and spending so much time away from my babies.

Thank you in advance!

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Tracey_W

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by Slm00024

Hello,
I wonder if anyone has any insights/advice please.
I’m really keen to apply to midwifery next year (2025/26) at UWS Lanarkshire campus. I have two young children and will drive around an hour to campus, staying nearest to GGC area.
My question is, regarding placement, is there any way to request to work my placement within GGC rather than in Highlands etc? This is my dream career but I am so worried at the thought of being posted to The Highlands etc for my full placement and spending so much time away from my babies.
Thank you in advance!

Hi there

I'm a NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board midwife.

If you are studying at university west of Scotland Lanarkshire campus then you'll work within the NHS Lanarkshire health board area with a slight chance you may have to go and do a placement within another health board ok.

Unfortunately you can't really ask but you can ask them if it's possible to stay within reason of where you live - there's approx 90 minutes maximum travelling time to your placement. Remember that all the students midwives have to be spreading over all the available placement that takes students in on placement.

It's possible you might have to do say one placement up in Inverness ( raigmore hospital ? ) as when I did my midwife degree ( I did it at Edinburgh Napier) I done a placement down at borders general ( Melrose) but due to travelling to and from there by bus it was impossible to travel back to my living accommodation in Edinburgh so I had to book into a local B&B for duration of the placement and then reclaim costs back from SAAS .

They will probably tell you that you are solely responsible for your childcare and you have to make sure you are attending your course.

NHS Scotland band 7 charge nurse midwives ( NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) .

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Tracey_W

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by gracelou_x

Did you apply? Im in the same boat but deciding wether to apply for nursing this year and do a top up later on or stay on at college and do midwifery next. I just cant imagine how i could work around leaving my daughter for 2 weeks for placements if i got sent away somewhere x

Hi

Just be aware about the midwifery top up course if you are doing adult nursing first - theres been rumours about scrapping the midwifery top up course for those who are already qualified nurses because of the shortages of adult nurses throughout the whole of the UK ( NMC and majority of universities and hospitals already agree about this and are slowly phrasing it out - meaning that anyone who wants to do midwifery will have to do the whole 3 years of the degree course - is that worth doing ? ) I would suggest that you perhaps speak to the university about this one and check that when you qualify as a adult nurse there are still running the midwifery shortened course of 20 months ( generally you'll have to do about 2 years experience as a New nurse before you can apply for the midwifery top up course ok.

Another thing is that placement are generally around 7 weeks blocks depending on how they allocate the students at each hospital/ community placement. Whoever says it is only 2 weeks seem to be wrong.
It's very rarely you'll do a placement away from your own health ward you are working under.

NHS Scotland band 7 midwife.

(edited 1 year ago)

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