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Application 1: Postgraduate Education Grants

For midwives undertaking post graduate papers towards Post Graduate Certificate and Post Graduate Diploma qualification

Full name:

Postal address:

Email address:

Contact phone number: Date of Birth:

New Zealand Midwifery Annual Practising Certificate Number: 15-_______

Please describe your main midwifery employment status (tick one option)

Self-employed midwife claiming under Section 88

Employed caseloading midwife

DHB or private maternity facility employed core midwife / charge midwife, clinical midwifery educator or other clinical midwifery role

Non clinical midwifery role such as a midwifery advisor, midwifery manager,

midwifery educator in an undergraduate or postgraduate midwifery education setting.

Other – please specify

_________________________________________________

If employed - please state your current average hours of employment per week.

If caseloading - please state your current annual caseload.

Are you intending to complete a midwifery postgraduate qualification? Yes / No If yes, please state the qualification you will receive on completion:

How did you find out about the opportunity to apply for a Post Graduate grant?

Midwifery News Midwifery post graduate school

Friend / colleague DHB or employer

Other (Please specify)

(Please tick as many as relevant)

Office use only:

Name Approved

Exception Panel Approved

Travel Grant Category Travel grant amount

per Semester

Semester One Credits Semester One Fees

Semester Two Credits Semester Two Fees

Total Grant Semester One

Total Grant Semester Two Additional Notes

Office use only School

PAY School Midwife SEM 1 SEM 2 TRAVL

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Ethnicity: To which ethnic group(s) do you belong? Tick one or more boxes or specify:

European not further defined (nfd) New Zealand European/Pakeha Other European

New Zealand Maori Pacific Island nfd Samoan

Cook Island Maori Tongan

Niuean Tokelauan Fijian

Other Pacific Island Groups Asian nfd

Southeast Asian Chinese Indian Other Asian Middle Eastern

Latin American/Hispanic

African (or cultural group of African origin) Other (Specify)

Eligibility:

Yes No

Are you a New Zealand citizen or hold New Zealand permanent residency status as conferred by the New Zealand Immigration service?

Do you have a current New Zealand Midwifery Annual Practising Certificate (APC) with the Midwifery Council?

Do you have any restrictions on that APC which would impact negatively on your ability to participate in postgraduate study?

Are you currently participating as a graduate midwife in the Midwifery First Year of Practice programme?

Are you currently receiving Ministry of Health funding (though your employer or fees refund) to participate in the Midwifery Complex Care clinical training?

Have you practised as a midwife in the past 12 months?

Are you enrolled in midwifery postgraduate education at either Wintec, AUT, Otago Polytechnic or Victoria University between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016?

Have you received funding from your employer or another source in undertaking this qualification including payment in kind?

If yes, please specify all funding or support received.

If you are an employed midwife, have you notified your employer of your intention to undertake post graduate study?

Have you read the Post graduate Grant Information sheet?

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Please state which postgraduate education papers you will be enrolled in from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.

Semester One

Title of paper Credits Education

provider

Paper start date

Paper end date

Semester Two

Title of paper Credits Education

provider

Paper start date

Paper end date

Travel Grants

Please tick per Semester

Sem 1 Sem 2

No travel grant required

 

(Midwife lives less than 50km one way from education provider.)

Travel Category A ($250.00 grant)

 

(Midwife lives more than 50km one way from education provider but does not need to pay for accommodation.)

Travel Category B ($750.00 grant)

 

(Midwife lives more than 50km one way from education provider and will be required to travel and pay for accommodation for at least 2 nights away from home for required attendance at face to face study blocks.)

Travel Category C ($1,000.00 grant)

 

(Midwife lives more than 50km one way from education provider and will be required to travel and pay for accommodation for 3 or more nights away from home for required attendance at face to face study blocks.)

Travel Grant amounts are paid per Semester. If you are eligible for funds to support travel the total grant amount, including fees costs will be paid directly to you. You will need to arrange payment to the education provider for your fees.

Notification of changes

Please note that if you change or withdraw from a course, or do not complete the requirements for a course for which you have been awarded Grants funding, you are obliged to notify NZCOM of your withdrawal and, depending on the circumstances, you may be required to refund the Grants funds.

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Permission to Release Information

Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) requires outcomes data on study undertaken by midwives who receive grants funding.

The terms under which grants funds are awarded require the disclosure of course / paper outcome information from the education provider to HWNZ and NZCOM.

NZCOM and HWNZ will collect and use such information only for the purpose of assessing the grants entitlements and the outcome of the funding and not for any other purpose; and the information shall be kept confidential and limited to the person/s administering the grant.

For the purposes of this application you are required to authorise continuing disclosure of information from your education provider on the terms below; and any withdrawal of such consent will affect your entitlements and will result in your being required to repay all grant moneys paid to you.

If your application meets the criteria for a grant, NZCOM is able to pay the grant directly to the education provider with which you are enrolled. We need your written permission (below) to enable NZCOM to do this.

DECLARATION AND AUTHORITY TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION AND ENABLE PAYMENT OF FEES:

I DECLARE that the information I have provided is correct and complete in all respects and that I accept the terms outlined in this application form.

I AUTHORISE AND DIRECT any Tertiary Education provider at which I am/have been undertaking any course of study relating to this grant to provide to the New Zealand College of Midwives and Health Workforce New Zealand the following information:

Full name

Relevant course / paper completion information (below) o Date of course / paper completion

o Outcome of course / paper

 Pass or failure to attain a pass

 Withdrawal from course

 Date and reason for withdrawal

If my application for a grant is successful and I am enrolled at either AUT, Victoria University or Otago Polytechnic, I give permission for NZCOM to pay the grant funds directly to the education provider on my behalf to cover the cost of my fees. If I am eligible for additional grant funds to support travel and accommodation costs the full grant (including fee costs) will be paid directly to me and I will be responsible for paying my education provider. NZCOM will notify me as to how the funds are being disbursed.

Full Name:

Signature:

Date:

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Checklist:

Please ensure you have included the following:

Evidence from the education provider that you have enrolled in the papers stated in this application

Copy of your fees statement from the education provider GST Registration number if you are GST registered Bank Deposit slip or Bank account number

(for those being paid travel grants)

Completed Career Plan Template (if not previously provided to NZCOM)

Please return completed form by the 18th of January 2016* to:

NZCOM

Postgraduate Funding Application PO Box 21-106

Christchurch 8143

Please ring Carla Martin at the New Zealand College of Midwives on (03) 372 9734 should you have any questions or email finance1@nzcom.org.nz.

*Please note that there is an additional round of funding applicable to Semester One papers with all completed forms due by the 18th March 2016.

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