Course Overview

The Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE) Maternity Care Assistant has been designed to develop the knowledge and skills of existing Maternity Care Assistants (MCAs) who are already working in a hospital or community midwifery setting. The course integrates knowledge, understanding, skills, and attitudes and develops your professional and personal maturity along with attributes necessary to work in a multi-disciplinary, woman-centered healthcare environment. The course is designed to ensure equity to Senior Health Care Support Workers (Scottish Government, 2010) and to meet the requirements related to professional proficiency and fitness for practice in relation to the achievement of MCA Competencies (NES, 2006). MCAs work with childbearing women and their families and with the professionals who provide care and applicants to this course must already be employed in maternity services setting and be nominated for entry to this course by their Line Manager. This course is fully funded by the NHS.

General Eligibility

We welcome Scottish, UK, and international students and consider all applicants on an individual basis. Dont worry if your qualifications are not listed here, we take a range of factors into account when assessing your application and are happy to consider other alternative combinations of qualifications and experience.

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement

• overall score 6.0_x000D_ no sub-test less than 5.5