Midwifery

'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

• Midwives SSSA update 2025/26 (PowerPoint)
• Assessment of practice overview (Adobe Spark video): a guide about grading and assessing midwifery students in practice for mentors
• MORA assessment process (PDF)
• Practice Supervisor feedback form (DOCX)
• Placement dates September cohorts 2025/26 (PDF) - January placement dates will be published in January 2026
• Midwifery placement handbook for academic year 2025/26 (PDF)
• Medicines management guidance for midwifery practice (PDF)
• Continuity and Caseloading document 2025/26 (PDF)
• Standards for student supervision and assessment (SSSA) transition and preparation handbook (DOC)
• Trust staff presentation (with sound) - Collaborative learning in practice (CLIP) (PowerPoint)

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

Gillian Ottley 

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

Anne O'Loghlen-Pinion

• Co-Programme Leader-Practice learning
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 81951
• Email: anne.ologhlen@uwe.ac.uk

Jemma Walker

• Co-Programme Leader-Curriculum
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 81760
• Email: Jemma3.Walker@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  

Sophie Ferguson

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

Victoria Fallows

• North Bristol NHS Trust
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 81878
• Email: Victoria.Fallows@uwe.ac.uk

Jemma Walker

• Swindon
• Telephone: +44 (0)117 32 81760
• Email: Jemma3.Walker@uwe.ac.uk

Rachel Tonks

• United Hospitals Bristol and Weston:
• Telephone: +44 (0)117 32 85831
• Email: Rachel2.Tonks@uwe.ac.uk

Placement team

• Email: ppoallocations@uwe.ac.uk

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