Mental Health Nurse Reserve

Naval operations are unique. They bring new challenges, pressures and responsibilities every day. Join our team and you’ll use your expertise to ensure our personnel are mentally fit to tackle them head on.

As a Mental Health Nurse (Reserve), you’ll continue your civilian career, but for 24 days a year, you’ll also provide vital care to our people. That might mean offering occupational mental health treatments on global operations or helping them adjust to life back home.

• Deliver world class healthcare as part of a highly skilled and motivated team.
• Provide vital support to maritime and wider military operations across the globe.
• Provide support in a range of challenging conditions at sea, on land or in the air. Adapt to a variety of platforms including state of the art warships such as the new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier.
• Travel the world as part of the front line medical services team.

• Annual tax-free bounty subject to meeting the minimum training commitment
• Paid leave in proportion to the number of training days attended
• Membership of the non-contributory Armed Forces Pension Scheme
• Expenses and allowances when training
• Access to the Royal Navy’s superb sports and fitness facilities
• Extra pay and allowances if you’re mobilised
  
   

Qualifications you'll gain

• The opportunity to complete further post-graduate study in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, alcohol, addictions and substance misuse
• Leadership and management qualifications

Skills you'll develop

• Unique mental health care, assessment, treatment and management
• Learn to be adaptable, flexible and disciplined
  
   

• You must be aged 20 and up to 52, (or 56 if you're serving or an ex-regular), when you start training
• 5 GCSEs grades C/4, which must include English Language and Mathematics
• You need to be a registered Mental Health Nurse with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), without restrictions but can also apply in your last year of nurse training to be selected on a conditional offer, subject to receiving an NMC PIN
• BSc/MSc or BA in Mental Health Nursing
• Currently working in a clinical setting
• You must be a British or Irish national, a Commonwealth citizen, or a Dual National
• You need to be within the healthy range for Body Mass Index (BMI)  
• Pass the Naval Swimming Test

• A nursing professional
• A skilled medical professional
• A confident and well-organised practitioner
• A team player