Midwifery 2nd Registration
BSc (Hons)
UCAS code: B721
Start dates: September 2025 / September 2026
Full time: 24 months
Location: Headington (Marston Road site)
Department(s): Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery
Overview
Ready to make the switch from nursing to midwifery? Combine your knowledge of healthcare and your passion for women’s health as you explore this new career path at Oxford Brookes.
As a NMC registered adult nurse, you’ll build on your existing skills to make a real difference in the lives of mothers and their children, providing care and support throughout pregnancy and beyond.
After applying through NHS Jobs, your course fees will be fully funded by NHS England. You’ll also keep earning your band 5 salary while you learn on this fast-paced 2-year learning journey.
Throughout the course you’ll explore a series of modules with additional bespoke seminars factoring in your current nursing knowledge. Outside the classroom, you’ll grow quickly through putting theory into practice. You’ll experience community midwifery, midwife-led units and multidisciplinary teams caring for complex cases.
With the recent influx of funding for the midwifery profession and your fresh enthusiasm and desire to make a positive impact, you’ll play a part in the future of the midwifery profession.
Why Oxford Brookes University?
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Small year group sizes
Benefit from personalised support from teaching staff and experience a sense of community and collaboration among students, including short course-specific tutorials.
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Unbeatable partnerships
Participate in the full range of midwifery care. From community midwifery and midwife-led units, to multidisciplinary teams caring for complex cases.
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Exciting practical experiences
Experience community midwifery, midwife-led intrapartum care including home births, midwife-led unit births and care for women with additional complexity.
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Influential teaching team
All our lecturers are engaged in research, international project work or work in clinical practice, taking your education to the next level.
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Earn while you learn
With course fees fully funded by NHS England, you’ll also earn a band 5 salary while you learn on this fast-paced 2-year learning journey.
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Free language courses
Free language courses are available to full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students on many of our courses, and can be taken as a credit on some courses.
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Accreditation(s)
Approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Course details
Study modules
Teaching for this course takes place Face to Face and you can expect around 13 hours of contact time per week.
In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.
Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.
Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.
Careers
Studying midwifery with us will prepare you for rewarding opportunities beyond university. You’ll become an expert in analytical thinking, effective communication, and problem solving. All skills that are essential for a rewarding role in midwifery care.
Once you’ve graduated, you will be entered onto the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a registered midwife. This means you’ll be ready to apply for band 5 midwifery positions and begin your preceptorship year.
On successful completion of the course, you will be offered optional employment with our local practice partner after a short professional discussion with them.
Further specialisms include:
- consultant midwifery
- international midwifery
- specialisms such as infant feeding, bereavement, public health
- clinical educator
- delivery suite coordinator.
Or perhaps you fancy deepening your knowledge and career further? At Oxford Brookes, we offer the option to complete a professional doctorate in midwifery as a progression route, allowing you to enjoy a career in clinical academic research or extend your area of specialism further.
Entry requirements
Specific entry requirements
- 120 CATS credits at level 4
- registration as a level 1 adult nurse (RN1 or RNA) on the NMC register
- the equivalent of 6 months' full-time relevant and current adult nursing practice in the past 18 months.
Securing a place is subject to both a satisfactory DBS and an Occupational Health clearance. If neither clearance has been completed prior to enrolment or a DBS issue has been declared on application, then enrolment may not be possible.
If enrolment has been agreed, then continuation on the programme will be contingent on satisfactory clearances.
Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
Screening
All applicants will be screened for fitness to practise and a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be made.
Selection process
Please note due to the competitive nature of this course, meeting the requirements alone does not guarantee shortlisting to interview as applications are assessed holistically
All Oxford Brookes University Health and Social Care Programmes conduct Value Based Recruitment (VBR). We recognise that values and attitudes have the greatest impact on the quality of people's care and their experiences.
VBR is a way of helping our Programme recruitment teams to assess the values, motives and attitudes of those who wish to work with people in health and social care settings. When we refer to values we mean, for example, the values included in the NHS constitution.
VBR focuses on 'how' and 'why' an applicant makes choices in how they act and seeks to explore reasons for their behaviour. Further details about the VBR framework can be found here.
Selection will be by interview and assessment of the following skills:
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Teamwork.
English language requirements
An IELTS score of 6.5 in all sections (reading, writing, listening and speaking) or equivalent scores in other tests such as TOFEL, OET, is required for ALL applicants whose first language is not English.
Please also see the University's standard English language requirements.
English requirements for visas
If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Visas and Immigration minimum language requirements as well as the University's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.
Terms and Conditions of Enrolment
When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
International qualifications and equivalences
How to apply
Application process
Applicants need to apply via the NHS for this course.
Tuition fees
Questions about fees?
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Tuition fees
* Following the government’s announcement of 4 November 2024, we expect to increase our undergraduate tuition fees for UK students to £9,535 from the start of the 2025/26 academic year. Please visit The Education Hub for more information about the changes. We will confirm our fees for 2025/26 as soon as possible.
Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.
Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.
The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support.
How and when to pay
Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.
- For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
- For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page
Financial support and scholarships
All eligible midwifery students on courses from September 2020 (new and continuing) will receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year which they will not need to pay back. For more information please visit NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF)
Additional costs
Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.
Placement costs
These are costs that need to be paid for by midwifery students when travelling to and from clinical practice placements throughout Oxfordshire. As an example, a random sample of first year students spent approximately £30 - £700 travelling to placements during the first year of their programme. For students eligible for tuition fee and maintenance support from the Student Loans Company, these costs are recoverable through the Learning Support Fund. Midwifery students spend 50% of their programme in clinical placement.
Other costs:
- Books and other learning resources: £50 - £300
- Shoes for practice to be worn with clinical uniform: £30 - £60
- Equipment (for example stethoscope and watch) and suitable non clinical clothing for community placements; £60 - £250
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