PGCert Enhanced Professional Midwifery Practice at Swansea University

Programme overview

This work-based, modular postgraduate certificate is for qualified, registered and employed midwives. It develops midwifery knowledge, clinical reasoning and decision-making, and reflective practice with the support of a personal tutor.

Faculty: School of Health and Social Care | Duration: 1 year part time | Intake: September | Location: Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

Study is through 30-credit Level 7 modules, including Starting Your Professional Development and Advancing Midwifery Leadership.

Career pathways

Successful completion often leads to enhanced professional practice and opens opportunities for career progression within the graduate's chosen area of midwifery practice. Graduates emerge as autonomous, reflective practitioners capable of critical thinking.

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Entry requirements

The course is aimed at graduate midwives who are NMC registered (non-graduate midwives can study the BSc (Hons) Enhanced Professional Practice instead). Clinical experience requirements are individual, though most midwives consolidate their practice as a newly qualified midwife first. Admission for most applicants is based on employer agreement on funding or study leave, and self-funding applicants studying in their own time are also considered. Attendance at a mandatory one-week induction at the start of year one is required. Typical offer 2:2.

Domestic applicants: GBP 3,250 for the whole programme (2026/27 (September 2). PGCert, one year part-time Source

Intake: September

Duration: 1 year part time

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