Midwifery

• Placement dates September cohorts 2025/26 (PDF) 
• Placement dates January cohort 2026 (PDF)
• Midwifery placement handbook for academic year 2025/26 (PDF)
• Medicines management guidance for midwifery practice (PDF)
• Continuity and Caseloading document 2025/26 (PDF)

• 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)
• The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) student supervision and assessment (SSSA) (NMC, 2018). The SSSA (NMC 2018) is applicable to all new and existing midwifery programmes.

Assessment of practice documentation

The Ongoing Record of Achievement (ORA) is available via PebblePad online. Students will share access with named practice supervisors and practice assessors 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 support for external assessors
• PebblePad support for external assessors (set users)

'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 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 

Academic in Practice (AiP)

Aimi Meen

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

• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 82117

• Email: Aimi.Meen@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

Gillian Ottley

• Swindon
• Tel: +44 (0)117 32 88963
• Email: gillian.ottley@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