NURSING OFFICER MENTAL HEALTH – UK ROYAL ARMY
What you’ll do
Mental Health Nursing in the Royal Navy offers a unique career unlike what you’ll find in the NHS. Our Mental Health teams are critical to maintaining the psychological health and well-being of our personnel, ensuring they are fit to deploy around the world. Routinely, you’d work in one of our Department of Community Mental Health centres in Plymouth, Portsmouth or Faslane in Scotland.
As well as carrying out the initial assessments of your patients, we’ll give you extra training in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, group therapy and many more to enable you to treat your patients too. We deploy our mental health nurses around the world when required.
This could be in support of the Maritime Role 3 capability on board RFA Argus, caring for clinical staff and patients alike. Or you could be part of the Waterfront Logistics Support Group; a network of specialists ready to deploy to ships and units around the world, should the need arise.
Your role
- Help ensure Royal Navy personnel are mentally fit for service, wherever they are in the world
- Use your nursing skills where they’re needed most. That might be offering community care to returning personnel, or providing occupational mental health assessment, treatment and management on missions all over the world
- Gain clinical and management experience while taking responsibility for mentoring junior nurses and medical assistants
- Develop as a practitioner in unique environments that are always challenging and sometimes dangerous
Pay and benefits
- A salary that rises to at least £32,000 following training at Britannia Royal Naval College
- Potential to earn over £50,000 a year as you progress
- Six weeks of paid holiday every year
- Free medical and dental care
What you’ll need
Eligibility
- You must be aged 20 to 39
- You need to be a registered Mental Health Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- You’ll need at least 5 GCSEs at grades A*-C (9-4) (or Scottish equivalent), which must include English and Mathematics
- You’ll need a BSc/MSc or BA in Mental Health Nursing
- A National of the United Kingdom, a Commonwealth citizen or Dual National
- A Body Mass Index (BMI) between 18 and 28 (between 17 and 27 if under 18)
- Pass the Naval Swimming Test
Skills and interests
- Technical, clinical and interpersonal excellence
- Decisive with strong independent thinking
- A caring and compassionate nature
- Highly organised and able to remain cool under pressure
- Meticulous attention to detail
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