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Why no midwife associates?
I’ve been looking into how to get into midwifery. I’m a registered mental health nurse. From what I’ve seen you can do a nursing associate course but not midwifery. I would love nothing more than to train as a midwife but I can’t even do the shortened course as I’m not adult trained! I can’t do a full time 3 year undergrad again what with the placements potentially being located far away and the hours not to mention the additional debt!
I wonder why midwife associate is not an option especially as many midwives go into the career later in life once they’ve experienced child birth and pregnancy themselves. Doesn’t make sense to me
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Maternity support workers would be the closest thing to nursing associates but they're not very close in terms of responsibility or pay
@Charley ahh thankyou I will keep on the lookout then. I did look into maternity support worker but there’s no jobs near me and it’ll be a huge drop in pay unfortunately
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Midwifery apprenticeships exist, they're not very common as it takes a lot to set up a new course. Staffing levels mean you need to make sure students have adequate supervision, so you can't just keep adding students into departments without the staff to cover them if that makes sense. That's the issue we had in my profession (radiography) but we're 3 years in now and our first cohort of radiographer apprentices are now qualified and working within the department and registered.