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Registered Mental Health Nurses

Registered mental health nurses support and care for people with a range of mental health conditions, in hospital and community settings, and help them towards recovery and management of their conditions.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£10,572
£37,780
£56,854

New workers start around £10,572. Normal pay is £37,780 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £56,854.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 59,571 vacancies for this type of job

5.74%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Provides information to patients and their families about a patient's condition, how to manage it and possible treatments.

  • Works with other mental health professionals.

  • Administers drugs and gives other forms of treatment.

  • Monitors patient’s progress, encourages patients to participate in different therapies.

  • Participates in the preparation for physical and psychological treatment of patients with mental health conditions.

  • Provides day to day support for and, in some cases, physical care for patients with a variety of mental health conditions.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Mental Health

  • Nursing

  • Risk Analysis

  • Psychiatric And Mental Health Nursing

  • Nursing Care

  • Mental Health Nursing

  • Psychology

  • Medication Administration

  • Treatment Planning

  • Midwifery

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communication

  • Management

  • Planning

  • Teamwork

  • Leadership

  • Mentorship

  • Interpersonal Communications

  • Compassion

  • Self-Motivation

  • Teaching

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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Nursing (Mental Health)

Edge Hill University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Ormskirk · 01/2026

Tariff points: 104/112

Mental Health Nursing

Kingston University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · London · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 120/136

Health & Social Care

Liverpool Hope University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Liverpool · 09/2025

Tariff points: 104/104

Nursing (Mental Health)

University of Portsmouth

BN (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Portsmouth · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/120

Mental Health Nursing

University of Wolverhampton

BNurs (H) · 3 Years · Full-time · Wolverhampton · 09/2025

Tariff points: 104/104

Mental Health Nursing

Bournemouth University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Poole · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/128

Nursing Studies (Mental Health)

Teesside University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Middlesbrough · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Nursing (Mental Health)

University of Brighton

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Brighton · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Nursing (Mental Health)

University of Hull

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Hull · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Nursing (Mental Health)

University of Derby

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Chesterfield · 09/2025

Tariff points: 120/120

Nursing (Mental Health)

University of Gloucestershire

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Gloucester · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Nursing (Mental Health)

Anglia Ruskin University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Cambridge · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Mental Health Nursing

Southampton, Solent University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Southampton · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/120

Mental Health Nursing

Buckinghamshire New University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Uxbridge · 01/2026

Tariff points: 112/136

Nursing (Mental Health)

Liverpool John Moores University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Liverpool · 09/2025

Tariff points: 104/112

Mental Health Nursing

Birmingham Newman University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Birmingham · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

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