Mental Health Nursing Placements

Placements may be located in a number of areas, including:

• Adult mental health services – including crisis and home treatment teams, early intervention services, recovery teams and inpatient units
• Mental health services for older people
• Forensic mental health services
• Prison health care services
• Mental health services for children and young people
• Eating disorder services
• Substance misuse services
• Physical wellbeing services
• Learning disabilities

Placements may take place in a range of locations, and will not always be in the same place.

For more information, please visit the Practice Learning Unit web pages

Placements will be assessed by students’ mentors throughout each placement and by the end of each year they need to have passed each of the skills that are itemised in a practice document they are given that includes the Assessment of Practice Tool (APT).

Throughout their three years, feedback on their clinical skills is taken from the people that they are caring for and their families. Service users and carers will assess students and their feedback is vital in determining whether students are successful on the programme and whether they can progress from one year to the next.