Inpatient Mental Health Nurses build relationships with young people who need mental health support in a hospital psychiatric ward or specialist unit.
A career as a Mental Health Nurse offers you the chance to make a real difference to young people’s lives. Mental Health Nursing also offers high degree of flexibility and excellent employment prospects.
The main route to become a Mental Health Nurse is through a degree course at university. If you already have a degree, you might be able to study for a postgraduate qualification.
There are other routes into Mental Health Nursing such as nurse degree apprenticeships and nursing associate apprenticeships.
Communication and interpersonal skills are crucial, as well as strong judgement, be able to teach advise and manage people.
- Building effective and trusting relationships with people who use mental health services and their relatives and carers
- Helping individuals understand their situation and get the best possible outcome
- You will be trained about the legal context of your work and also be able to identify whether and when someone may be at risk of harming themselves or someone else
- You will usually based in hospitals, for example on a psychiatric ward or specialist unit. You could also be based in the community where you could work in a community health centre or in someone’s home
- You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team which includes GPs, Psychologists, Social Workers, Psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals.
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In the video below, published by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, hear from nurses working in inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
In the video below, published by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, Libby Bentley talks about being an inpatient CAMHS nurse.
