Course Overview

As a mental health nurse, you will play a crucial role in supporting people who are experiencing or recovering from a range of mental health problems. Each day brings new challenges and experiences.

Our course will help you to develop the skills you need to make a difference in the lives of people in mental distress and will give you eligibility for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

As part of your studies, you'll undertake practice placements and apply your learning in a variety of settings including hospitals, care homes, and in the community. Each of the modules has a theme such as recognition, assessment, care planning, and interventions for mental illnesses.

On successful completion of the course, you'll be eligible to apply for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and become a registered nurse within the field of mental health nursing.

There is a wide range of roles that registered mental health nurses can pursue, in services that specialize in child and adolescent, adult, and older persons' mental health. You can focus on crisis management, recovery, rehabilitation, liaison psychiatry, psychosis, personality disorder forensic mental health, court liaison, and street triage, substance misuse, and eating disorders.

Other career opportunities could involve clinical leadership, management, education, or research. Additionally, there are opportunities within our Faculty of Health and Wellbeing to progress onto postgraduate study, MSc or Ph.D. studies, or commence specialist training as psychotherapists.

General Eligibility

A Level: BBC

BTEC: DMM

Access: 15 Distinctions and 30 Merits 

International Baccalaureate: 29 Points

Combinations: A combination of qualifications totaling 112 UCAS points

Mathematics and English language at GCSE grade C/4 or above.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language you require an IELTS overall score of 7, with scores of at least 7 in reading, listening, and speaking, and at least 6.5 in writing.