Our Mental Health Nursing course takes you on a service user’s journey within community and hospital settings, allowing you to see the service through the patient’s perspective and identify where you can make positive changes.

The course reinforces your positive attitude, provides you with evidence-based knowledge and equips you with effective practice skills, through a flexible and blended approach to learning. We also offer extra student support throughout your studies and during your practice. This means that you will be supported by a Nursing Academic during your practice at a Hospital.

Optional Work Placement Year/ Opportunities Abroad

You will be expected to study a minimum of 2,300 hours theory and 2,300 hours practice across the 3 years.

The practical placements that you will take throughout this course will be in a variety of health, education and social care settings. The practical experience in healthcare settings are gained within hospitals, community settings, the voluntary sector and other health and social care organisations within Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire.

This course is compliant with Nursing and Midwifery Council requirements. For more information on educational standards required for nursing please visit the Nursing and Midwifery Council web pages.

On completion of this course you can pursue a wide range of professional careers in health and social care and research.

As a Mental Health Nurse, you can work in hospitals or in the community. If you work in a residential setting, you may do shifts and provide 24-hour care. Within a hospital you might work in a psychiatric intensive care unit, psychiatric ward, outpatients unit, or a specialist unit dealing with eating disorders.

In the community you could work at a GP surgery, prison, community health care centre, residential centre or patients’ own homes.