Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship - Mental Health (Mental Health)
University of HertfordshireUniversity of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
Course overview
Apprenticeship Standard: Registered Nurse Final Award: BSc (Hons) Nursing Nurses form the largest professional group within mental health services. With around a quarter of the population experiencing some form of mental health difficulty, mental health nurses play a vital role in supporting and empowering individuals. As a mental health nurse, you will take on the rewarding and sometimes challenging responsibility of forming therapeutic relationships with people from diverse backgrounds and age groups This Mental Health Nursing Degree Apprenticeship programme provides a comprehensive pre-registration route into the profession.
It equips you with the essential skills to make evidence-based interventions and deliver compassionate, person-centred care-always respecting and valuing the aspira
Key highlights
- Degree apprenticeship route leading to a BSc (Hons) Nursing award
- Follows the Registered Nurse apprenticeship standard
- Comprehensive pre-registration route into mental health nursing
- Builds skills in evidence-based interventions and person-centred care
- Focuses on therapeutic relationships with people of diverse ages and backgrounds
Entry requirements
- UCAS tariff points: 96-168 — 96-168 UCAS Points A Levels Must achieve a minimum of 96 UCAS tariff points to include at least 2 'A' levels.
- UCAS tariff points: 96 — 96-168 UCAS Points A Levels Must achieve a minimum of 96 UCAS tariff points to include at least 2 'A' levels.
- GCSE: C/4 or above — to include Mathematics, English
- Access to HE Diploma — normally 6 level 2 credits in numeracy and 6 in literacy
- Additional condition: interview — …demonstration of the NHS constitution’s “Values and Behaviours”, satisfactory interviews, numeracy and literacy test, health screening and the Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) checks.
- Additional condition: dbs_check — …satisfactory interviews, numeracy and literacy test, health screening and the Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) checks.
Scholarships
Dannenberg Scholarship (BEng)
£1,000 (or share of)
Jarvis Centenary Scholarship
£5,000 (over three years of study: £1,000 in the first year, £2,000 each in the second and third years) with at least one site visit or period of work experience with Jarvis Homes
Up to £5,000Kurt Dannenberg Bursary
£1,000 (or share of)
Up to £1,000Professor Peter Lines Scholarship
Value: £1,000
Up to £1,000The Janice Ann McNaughton Bursary
£3,000 (paid in the first year of study)
Up to £3,000The Judges' and High Sheriffs' Scholarship
two students will be awarded £1,500 each
Up to £1,500
Careers this course leads to
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Community Mental Health Nurse
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse
- Forensic Mental Health Nurse
- Crisis Team Mental Health Nurse
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to University of Hertfordshire, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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