Susan Mant

Susan Mant

  • Senior Lecturer In Midwifery
  • BGB
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Biography

Susan is an experienced midwife and teacher, and has been teaching on the undergraduate and post-registration programmes for some years. She is currently working towards a PhD and her study, a narrative inquiry, aims to explore the experiences of newly qualified Sign-off Midwife Mentors. This links with her teaching role in post registration education. Other interests involve a Masters study exploring clinicians’ experience of the Zavanelli Manoeuvre and an interest in the management of physiological breech birth and pre-eclampsia.

Research

Research revolves around Sign-off Midwife Mentorship (and the experience of newly qualified sign-off midwife mentors)

Journal Articles

  • Fry, J., Mant, S., Stosiek, J. and Emberley, S., 2013. Creating a selection process to recruit students with the six Cs. British Journal of Midwifery, 21 (11), 825.
  • Fry, J., Mant, S., Stosiek, J. and Emberley, S., 2013. Creating a selection process to recruit students with the six Cs. British Journal of Midwifery, 21 (11), 822.
  • Mant, S., 2004. Could Zavanelli have a role to play? Pract Midwife, 7 (3), 38-39.

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Overall responsibility for Lead in Midwife Mentorship (Levels I, H & M)
  • Post Registration Link Tutor with specific responsibilities for Yeovil and West Dorset (Dorchester)
  • Facilitator Learning & Assessing in the Practice Enviroment (interprofessional unit at C, H & M)

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Unit Lead - Introduction to Professional Practice (Level C)
  • Unit Lead - Antenatal and Postnatal Care of Mother and Baby ( Level C)

Consultancy Activities

  • Supervisor of Midwives, Supervisor of Midwives. Poole NHS Hospital Foundation Trust
  • Supervisor of Midwives, Supervisor of Midwives. Bournemouth NHS Foundation Trust

Qualifications

  • Post graduate Diploma in Health & Social Care Education (2006)
  • MA in Midwifery Practice (2005)
  • BSc (Hons) in Midwifery (2002)
  • Supervisor of Midwives in SOM (2000)
  • Advanced Diploma in Midwifery (1994)
  • State Certified Midwife in Midwifery (1981)
  • Registered General Nurse in Nursing (1977)

Memberships

  • Nursing and Midwifery Council, Registered Midwife (1981-),
  • Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics, Member,
  • Royal College of Midwives, Member,