Nursing (Mental Health)

Our Mental Health Nursing degree will give you the clinical skills and experience needed to be a confident and compassionate mental health nurse.

Work with real patients from your first year with our extensive partnerships with NHS trusts throughout the midlands region. By the time you graduate, you’ll be a confident specialist mental health nurse eligible to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

To fully prepare you for a career as a mental health nurse, you’ll learn about mental health conditions and how to care for patients of all ages. Your time will be split between learning in our first-class facilities and developing your skills on practice placements.

Learn the theory and put it into practice with hands-on skills and simulation days. These sessions take place in our simulation suites which replicate the clinical environment you’ll be working in when you graduate. By working through simulated case studies and clinical scenarios, you’ll have an authentic insight into the role of a mental health nurse and improve your confidence.

Be there for patients from your first year with practice placements, where you’ll be working with real people with complex mental, physical, and social needs. You’ll learn techniques to form relationships and build trust with your patients to help them overcome their challenges and make a difference in their lives.

Your lecturers will get to know you personally. Through tailored support and reflections, they get to understand your strengths and know how to push you to develop. When you start, you’ll be assigned a Personal Academic Tutor, usually this is one of the lecturers teaching your course and they typically remain with you throughout your studies.

Placements
We have excellent links with NHS Trusts and healthcare providers in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Birmingham, and Dudley.

Around half of your time will be spent on practice placements in each year of your degree. Your placements run in blocks across the year, normally with experiences in at least two different placement settings each year.

These settings could include:

• Nursing homes

• Psychosis services

• Prison services

• Dementia services

• Child and adolescent mental health services

• Psychiatric intensive care

While out on placement you’ll learn from experienced nurses and have the support of your tutors. These practical experiences, in combination with your time on campus, prepare you to be a skilled, compassionate, and confident mental health nurse.

Accreditation

This course is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). When you graduate you’ll be eligible to register as a nurse with the NMC, the professional regulatory body for nurses.

Why the University of Worcester?

For almost three decades, we've been educating professionals to work in the health and social care sectors, from Nurses and Midwives to Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, Paramedics to Physician Associates. Each year, hundreds of professionals graduate from Worcester and go on to make a significant contribution to society. In 2023 our new Three Counties Medical School welcomed its first cohort of students.

At the University of Worcester small class sizes, supportive tutors and professionally focussed courses mean you’ll be prepared for your dream career. These are just some of the reasons why we’re first in the UK for both graduate employment and quality education.

• First in the UK for sustained employment and/or further study (excluding specialist institutions), 5 years after graduation – Longitudinal Education Outcomes data 2024.

• First in the UK for quality education – Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2024.

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