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Professional Midwifery Advocate

This Level 7 master's course trains you to support your colleagues' wellbeing and lead quality improvements in healthcare. It's delivered online over 10-weeks and includes allied healthcare professionals, nurses and midwives.

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LevelShort courses and CPD
Duration10 weeks
Start dates22 September 2026, 2 March 2027
Fee£1,000
Course codeCID1613

Course summary

Are you a registered midwife? Do you want to support others through change and leadership? This Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) course could be for you.

The course will help you build your clinical supervision skills so you can better support and retain the midwifery workforce. You’ll explore the role of the PMA and how it fits within today’s healthcare system. You’ll also reflect on your own skills and experience. This will enable you to grow and develop in your role.

The course is based on the A-EQUIP model. This focuses on midwifery leadership and restorative clinical supervision. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to apply what you’ve learned in practice as a PMA.

This is a blended multidisciplinary course designed for registered healthcare professionals. It's taught collectively to include allied healthcare professionals, nurses and midwives.

Why Sunderland for Short courses and CPD

What you'll study

Topics covered on this course include:

  • Complex decision making
  • Clinical supervisory models
  • Theoretical foundations of restorative clinical supervision
  • Clinical governance relating to the role of the PMA
  • Quality improvement processes and evaluation
  • Critical appraisal/ evaluation/ application of evidence-based practice
  • Leadership and culture
  • Life-long learning and continuous development
  • Supportive strategies
  • The role of the PMA in career conversations
  • Coaching, mentoring, supervising
  • Presentation skills
  • Prioritising the wellbeing of staff.

We'll support you to meet the standards for facilitating clinical supervision. We'll use a restorative approach. This enables you to undertake personal action for quality improvement. You'll monitor, evaluate and control quality to promote the education and development of midwives. This is through using restorative, normative and formative approaches.

How you'll learn

We deliver the course online, one day a week for 10 weeks. Teaching is via lectures, supported by directed and self-directed study.

Assessment methods include:

  • A portfolio
  • A presentation and discussion on a quality improvement initiative of your choice.

You'll complete your assessment four weeks after the module ends.

Entry requirements

Fees and finance support

Employers usually meets course costs. We advise that you speak to your workforce development lead before applying.

We also accept self-funded applicants. If you'd like to explore your options, contact us at cpd@sunderland.ac.uk(opens in new tab).

Apply now

Contact our team for further information about applying for this course. Call 0191 515 3361(opens in new tab) or email cpd@sunderland.ac.uk(opens in new tab).