Michelle Ranglin

A qualified Nurse with over 25 years’ experience, her career started on initial qualification at Birmingham Children’s hospital on a Paediatric Neurosurgery ward. Following on from this she completed her BSc (hons) degree in Midwifery and on initial qualification worked in a Mother and Baby Nursing Home, where she was able to support women with social, mental health and housing issues. After a short time managing the home she returned to work in the NHS, in order to consolidate her clinical skills and worked for 9 years as a Midwife on delivery suite, assisting woman during labour.

Following encouragement from her peers, she started her teaching career as an Associate Lecturer; teaching Health & Social Care from level 1 to 3. She remained there for 4 years, completing a PTTLLS course and also a PGCE;  before commencing a new role as a Midwife within a Children’s Centre, here she continued to support many troubled families. She was able to set up and support various groups based on the needs in the local community, these included a breast-feeding café, post-natal debriefing and support, early bird antenatal sessions and infant massage sessions. She then returned to teaching and taught briefly on the Foundation Degree and also on the Apprenticeship Courses in Health and Social Care. She then trained as a Disability Analyst, assessing client’s ability to carry out daily living tasks. Following this she returned to education taking up a role as a Teacher at Health Futures UTC it was here that she was able to create a clinical skills programme, and work with many employer partners. She then took up a teaching role at a local Sixth Form College, she worked tirelessly to improve the learner experience and was successful in creating a 4 bedded clinical skills suite and working on curriculum design to embed clinical skills into the courses. She has led on health promotion campaigns, well-being weeks and in national health campaigns. Her career progressed here as she became Course Co-ordinator, Assistant HoD and then HoD for Health & Social Care.

Throughout the years she has worked on a adhoc basis in Elderly Care Homes & also with Independent Midwives. She has recently joined forces with the Five Times more organisation to support the formation of an All Party Parliamentary working group focussing on black maternal health. She is passionate about equality in Health care and also person-centred care, particularly in maternity services, as such she has worked with some of the most marginalised members of society.