Midwifery

View midwifery guidance:

• Placement dates 2024/25 (PDF)
• Standards for student supervision and assessment (SSSA) transition and preparation handbook (DOC)
• Midwives update 2023/24 (PowerPoint)
• Trust staff presentation (with sound) - Collaborative learning in practice (CLIP) (PowerPoint)
• SSSA practice assessor training package for midwives

'How to' video links (all cohorts)

Please access the video links below to support with all stages of the Practice Assessor role.

• Initial Meeting
• First Review
• Second Review
• Holistic Summative Tripartite Assessment

View practice documentation:

• Midwifery placement handbook for academic year 2024/2025 (PDF)
• Medicines management guidance for midwifery practice (PDF)
• Continuity and Caseloading document 2024/25 (PDF)
• Assessment of practice overview (Adobe Spark video): A guide about grading and assessing midwifery students in practice for mentors

Assessment of practice documentation

The Ongoing Record of Achievement (ORA) is now available via PebblePad online. Students will share access with named mentors during placements.

External Assessor guidance to Electronic Ongoing Record of Achievement (E-ORA)

• Log in to PebblePad
• Choose the guest account option on the login page
• Use the test account login details:
• Username – cmpexternaluwe@gmail.com
• Password – pebblepad123

View helpful guidance:

• External assessor guide (PDF)
• PebblePad resources

View programme information:

• BSc(Hons) Midwifery course details

If you have any queries or questions about the Midwifery programme or require support, please contact a member of the programme team, one of the Practice Associate Lecturers or get in touch via our support line.

Practice support line

• Confidential helpline for mentors and students Tel: +44 (0)117 32 81152
• Email: hscpsl@uwe.ac.uk

Programme team leads

Rona Lockyer-Sheppard

• Lead Midwife for Education (LME)
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 88694
• Email: rona.lockyer-sheppard@uwe.ac.uk

Rona Lockyer-Sheppard

• Programme Leader (On campus programme)
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 88694
• Email: rona.lockyer-sheppard@uwe.ac.uk

Rachel Tonks

• Co-Programme Leader
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 85831
• Email: Rachel2.Tonks@uwe.ac.uk

Gillian Ottley 

• Programme Leader (Blended learning programme)
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 88963
• Email: gillian.ottley@uwe.ac.uk

Academic in Practice (AiP)

Jane Pilston

• Bath (including Paulton, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Devizes and Malmesbury)

• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 88333

• Email: jane2.pilston@uwe.ac.uk 

Sonia Richardson

• North Bristol NHS Trust (including Cossham)
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 5831
• Email: sonia.richardson@uwe.ac.uk

Anne O’Loghlen-Pinion 

• University Hospitals Bristol and Weston
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 81951
• Email: anne.ologhlen@uwe.ac.uk

Tanya Miles

• Swindon (including Chippenham and Trowbridge)
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 81317
• Email: tanya3.miles@uwe.ac.uk

Sophie Ferguson

• Gloucester
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 82774
• Email: Sophie.Ferguson@uwe.ac.uk

Placement team 

• Email: ppoallocations@uwe.ac.uk

Find out more about supporting, supervising and assessing students in practice.