Midwifery Work Experience & Career Day

Midwifery Applications - The Morning

Midwifery degrees have experienced a boom in applications over the last few years and when first looking into the profession, students can be taken aback by just how competitive it can be.

In our morning session we concentrate on how to apply for midwifery to give you the best possible chance of successfully gaining a place at university to study it.

We’ll start by giving you the lowdown on all of the universities in the UK that offer the course. We’ll delve into the pro’s and con’s of each one and the learning structure each university uses so you can find the university that fits your learning style the best.

Next up, we’ll discuss the personal statement for midwifery. Your personal statement for midwifery only has 47 lines to impress, that’s about 1 side of A4 paper, so not a lot of room to convince the admissions team that you deserve a place.

Our Midwife will guide you through the personal statement, showing you exactly what you should concentrate on and what to avoid.

Your final hurdle to achieving that place at university to study midwifery is the dreaded interview. We’ll go through and practice some of the common questions and challenges you will face during the interview. Midwifery interviews often have a group working element to them where the panel will be looking for students that work well within a team. The challenge is to be seen but not dominate proceedings and not remain silent either! We’ll show you how to strike the right balance so the whole process isn’t a shock on the day.

Finally in our morning session, we’ll discuss midwifery work experience. Midwifery work experience is possibly the hardest of all work experience to obtain. The very nature of being a midwife means you are privy to perhaps the most sensitive and intimate part of another person’s life, so gaining some work experience in this field is so, so difficult. We’ll discuss this together in the morning session and dispense some practical advice to students on how to go about gaining more experience to help with their applications.

After a break for lunch, the afternoon session of our day is spent gaining some midwifery work experience.

Midwifery Work Experience - The Afternoon

In the afternoon we delve into some midwifery work experience. Practical clinical skills will be the focus, where midwives will guide you through their day-to-day job, letting you glimpse behind the curtain of midwifery.

You will experience common and not so common fetal anomalies, review scan reports and see first hand exactly what your future midwifery career will have in store for you.

After today your understanding of a midwifery career will be far greater. Team working, decision making and confidence will increase and it’s a fantastic way to learn about the profession.

Students will be awarded a certificate of attendance for the days training for use in your applications for midwifery.