On this course, youll learn to meet the diverse needs of people with mental health difficulties and their families. In your first year, youll study topics that are fundamental to mental health nursing, including concepts of caring, physical health sciences, and public health promotion, ensuring you have a solid foundation upon which to build the rest of your degree. During your second year, youll explore self-awareness and the ability to use the self therapeutically, to begin delivering effective, evidence-based care to people experiencing specific mental health difficulties. Youll also learn how to empower people on their recovery journeys, utilising mental health policy and multi-agency approaches. Access our Clinical Simulation Centre, including our wards and community flat, to practise scenarios created with people who have lived experience and actors. Spend half of your training in clinical placements, to practise your skills in healthcare settings like acute inpatient, community and specialist mental health services, under the supervision of qualified practitioners. Learn from a multidisciplinary team of lecturers, who are all healthcare professionals with experience of working in the NHS. Many are also active researchers, investigating topics like ethics and compassionate practice.