Overview of the Course Management Team

The members of the Course Management Team (CMT) are involved in induction to each stage of the programme and help to support students through the programme, alongside other staff. The CMT operate a traffic light system which helps us identify students requiring most support and guidance. Regular meetings with other key support staff also take place to monitor the students on the traffic light system.

The CMT also meet regularly with student course representatives to discuss course related issues and students’ experiences on the programme including the monthly Student Voice Meetings. We work positively with our student representatives, and we pride ourselves on the emphasis of co-production with the student population. Together we work on several exciting projects to improve the student experience.

The Lead Midwife for Education has primary responsibility for the overall development, delivery, and management of the midwifery course with special reference to compliance with the standards established by the NMC.  They are responsible for informing the NMC that you are fit to practise upon qualification, including signing the supporting declaration for good health and good character for all midwifery students.

The course leader has primary responsibility for the operation, management, and review of the learning process. To effectively undertake that role, they will liaise on a regular basis with the pre-registration course manager, administrative and student support team, practice partners, and module leaders.

These are the academic members of staff with primary responsibility for the design and delivery of a module. Responsibilities include teaching, assessment, feedback and evaluation, alongside module specific advice and support.

The module leader will:

• Provide the module course information at the start of the module.

• Provide reading advice and details of other resources.

• Provide assignment guidelines.

• Undertake an evaluation of the module.

• Provide feedback on individual and group performance.  Mechanisms for this will be made known at the beginning of the module.

Each student will be assigned an Academic adviser who will support their personal and professional development until completion of the course. They will ensure that the students are engaging with the academic and professional requirements of the course and support the student in applying theory to the practice setting and encourage reflection. Academic Advisers provide a personal point of contact and ongoing support as students' progress through their course, transitioning from induction, into and between levels of study, to and from placements and into employment or further study. Academic Advisers also provide pastoral support at the point of contact in relation to academic progress and, where appropriate, refer the student to specialist support services. Students will be required to meet with their Academic Adviser following practice placements to review completion of the Midwifery Ongoing Record of Achievement Document [MORA] and monitor completion of practice hours, proficiencies, skills, medicines management and practice learning experiences.

Students are allocated in groups to an Academic Adviser at the commencement of the programme and the norm would be for this advisor to stay with the same group throughout the programme. More information can be located here.

Responsibilities:

·       Campus learning

o   Actively encourage, motivate and support student engagement with the programme.

o   Facilitate a session in the first week (induction for level 7 as timetabled) of the programme.

o   Follow the Promoting professional behaviours process in monitoring attendance, complete documentation and referral to course management team as required.

o   Review student learning logs and evidence for missed hours of learning (this must be completed for all missed sessions to ensure NMC hours are met).

o   Facilitate a timetable session (one of the tutorials) on the assessments for the year (the purpose of the session is to identify the workload and discuss the management of the workload not the nature of the assessments)

o   Facilitate tutorials as timetabled, document any concerns raised about the student experience and refer these in email to the course management team.

o   Monitor and encourage the students' professional development

o   Monitor and encourage the students' academic development

o   Refer requests for references for agency work to the course administrators for the standard letter to be sent out.

o   Monitor and confirm the completion of the practice learning experiences to satisfy the NMC Standard R3.5

o   Write an end of course summary

o   Act as a referral agent for pastoral issues

o   Act as a point of contact for areas of concern in the student experience advising the student to refer issues on as appropriate to the Link lecturer, SSA, Module Leader, Course Management Team

o   Refer students where necessary to the referral processes for Fitness to practice or disciplinary

·       Practice learning

o   Facilitate timetabled sessions on placement preparation

o   Email students within 3 weeks of the start of their placement to ensure they have settled including reminder of details of the need to escalate concerns to link lecturers or the SSA including a link to the escalating concerns on the placement learning web pages (standard email acceptable sent individually - monitor response)

o   Facilitate reflection on placement learning and achievement of competencies

o   Monitor clinical assessment and achievement

o   Process assessment of practice documents (eMORA) on time in line with published dates - arrange for an alternate if unavailable (extensions not permitted due to exam board deadlines).

Undertake an annual performance review of the student's self-assessment of their academic and practice development (Web-folio can be used to support this). This is reviewed at the assessment of practice one to one sign off meetings.

Where necessary responsibilities following guidance from the Course Management Team (to be confirmed with admin)

• Where necessary conduct an exit interview with the Student Support Adviser

• Where necessary advise and support the student wishing to take a temporary withdrawal

• Where necessary advise and support the student who is referring in assessments

• Where necessary advise and support the student who is exiting as a failed student

What students should not expect

• The AA to manage practice concerns which should be referred and dealt with by the link lecturer for that practice area.

• Pastoral support - this is the role of the SSA/ Student union advice centre, Health and Wellbeing services including counselling services.