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CertHE Maternity Care Assistant

University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

The Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE) Maternity Care Assistant has been designed to develop the knowledge and skills of existing Maternity Care Assistants (MCAs) who are already working in a hospital or community midwifery setting. The course integrates knowledge, understanding, skills, and attitudes and develops your professional and personal maturity along with attributes necessary to work in a multi-disciplinary, woman-centered healthcare environment. The course is designed to ensure equity to Senior Health Care Support Workers (Scottish Government, 2010) and to meet the requirements related to professional proficiency and fitness for practice in relation to the achievement of MCA Competencies (NES, 2006). MCAs work with childbearing women and their families and with the professionals who provide care and applicants to this course must already be employed in maternity services setting and be nominated for entry to this course by their Line Manager. This course is fully funded by the NHS.

General Eligibility

Our Minimum Entry Requirements are applicable to those applicants who have not had an equal opportunity to demonstrate their academic ability at school or college and are known as ‘widening access’ applicants. We also sometimes refer to this type of applicant as receiving a ‘contextual’ offer. We may be able to provide you with a contextual offer if you fall into one of the categories below:

  • You have been in care (care-experienced/care-leaver)

  • You are a young carer

  • government-recognizedecognised asylum or refugee status

  • You are estranged from your family or guardians

  • You live in a SIMD decile 1-4 (SIMD20/40)* Scottish postcode area

Part Time Work Details

20 hours per week.

What You'll Study

1 Module

The CertHE Maternity Care Assistant lasts one year. Each trimester comprises a short theory block followed by defined practice placements to integrate and consolidate evidence-based knowledege and understanding with skills acquisition, attitudes and behaviours.

Topic areas include:

  • the professional, ethical and legal role of MCAs

  • working with vulnerable women

  • supporting infant nutrition early years parenting support

You will undertake practice placements within your NHS Board, and the Board will administer the placement, ensuring you experience a variety of ante and post-natal care settings.

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS 6.0 with no skill below 5.5.

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