Supporting Healthcare – Supporting the Midwifery Team Level 3

This two-year T Level combines technical knowledge, practical healthcare skills and substantial experience in the workplace. The qualification is designed to prepare learners for skilled employment, apprenticeships or higher-level study within health. The T Level includes a minimum of 315 hours of industry placement. Specification

Our placement delivery partner is Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA). Learners will complete their placement hours within hospital environments across the Trust, providing valuable experience of working alongside healthcare professionals and understanding the standards expected within NHS services. Learners will also receive bespoke training sessions delivered by Northern Care Alliance, developing their clinical knowledge, professional behaviours and preparation for the healthcare workforce. 

During Year 1, you will develop the broad knowledge and skills needed to understand how healthcare services operate and how safe, effective and person-centred care is provided.

• Health, Safety and Environmental Regulations in the Healthcare Sector
• Managing Information and Data within the Healthcare Sector
• Good Scientific and Clinical Practice
• Providing Person-Centred Care
• Health ands Wellbeing
• Safeguarding
• Science Concepts  

Alongside your technical knowledge, you will develop six important professional skills which are assessed through the Employer Set Project.

• Person-centred care
• Communication
• Team working
• Reflective evaluation
• Researching 
• Presenting 

In Year 2, you will increasingly apply your knowledge through practical and occupationally relevant learning. All learners undertaking this pathway develop the healthcare support skills required by the Occupational Specialism before applying these within a midwifery and maternity context. The Supporting the Midwifery Team pathway is organised around three Performance Outcomes. Specification 

Antenatal and intrapartum care

You will learn how to assist the midwifery team and wider Multidisciplinary Team during pregnancy and labour. This includes providing individualised support, recognising changes in physical and emotional wellbeing, using information such as Modified Early Obstetric Warning Scores (MEOWS), promoting healthy lifestyles, escalating concerns appropriately and supporting women with different birthing positions and maternity environments. Specification 

Postnatal care

You will develop skills to assist the midwife in caring for mothers and supporting parents following birth. This includes supporting parents with baby bathing and hygiene, infant feeding choices, promoting skin-to-skin contact, reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, supporting women following a caesarean section, mobility and comfort, infection prevention, dignity, consent and accurate documentation. Specification

Care of the newborn

You will learn how to assist with routine observations and measurements of newborn babies. You will prepare for and undertake newborn checks within your scope of practice, communicate with parents, maintain infection prevention measures, obtain consent, accurately record findings and recognise when observations need to be escalated to a midwife or another appropriate practitioner. Specification

A significant part of your programme will be learning in and from the workplace. Through our partnership with Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, you will complete your industry placement hours within hospital environments and gain experience of professional healthcare practice.

You will also benefit from bespoke training delivered by the Trust, helping you connect what you learn in college with NHS practice, professional expectations, clinical skills, patient safety and the realities of working within maternity and healthcare services.

The qualification combines written examinations, an Employer Set Project and practical Occupational Specialism assessment. The core modules represent 50% of the overall Technical Qualification, with the Occupational Specialism representing the other 50%.

The T Level Technical Qualification in Health has been designed specifically to prepare learners for employment, apprenticeships and higher-level study within the health sector. Learners completing the programme are expected to have developed the core healthcare knowledge and skills needed to progress towards occupational competence within healthcare.

For learners following the Supporting the Midwifery Team pathway, progression opportunities may include Maternity Support Worker and other healthcare support roles. The specification also identifies progression to Level 3 healthcare apprenticeships and higher apprenticeships such as the Level 5 Nursing Associate and Level 5 Assistant Practitioner (Health).

Learners who want to continue into higher education can also progress to relevant HNC, HND or degree programmes. For learners interested in becoming a registered midwife, the programme can therefore provide a strong foundation for progression towards Midwifery degree-level study, subject to meeting the individual university's entry requirements. The specification specifically advises learners to check degree entry requirements with their chosen higher-education provider.

This creates a progression pathway from T Level Health can beto maternity/healthcare employment or apprenticeship, higher technical study or university or professional healthcare careers, while giving learners substantial NHS experience through placement with Northern Care Alliance.