{"id":120095,"date":"2025-08-05T05:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120095\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T05:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:42:10","slug":"somerset-student-midwives-struggling-to-find-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/120095\/","title":{"rendered":"Somerset student midwives struggling to find jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the course, the students spend weeks working full-time in hospitals, while still paying for their degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s unpaid hours. There is student finance which does help but it doesn&#8217;t replace the loss of a wage. It&#8217;s really difficult,&#8221; Ms Peach said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a responsible adult and have to contribute to the family household. We all have children and responsibilities, we&#8217;re juggling so much to be here,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lucy Sheppard, a final-year student midwife from Nether Stowey in Somerset, had been working in maternity services and decided to take a midwifery course as she said it was suggested a job would be pretty much guaranteed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she said she was now accumulating thousands of pounds in student debt and struggling to find a job which would pay for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of the course, the students spend weeks working full-time in hospitals, while still paying for their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-120095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114974566400795212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}