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Nursing with Registration as a Mental Health Nurse MSc
UCAS code: B762
Key information
Course type:
Masters
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time
Duration:
Two years
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
31 January 2025
As a mental health nurse, you need to be prepared for fast-paced, challenging situations. From forensic psychiatry to child and adolescent mental health, we’ve designed our course to equip you with the skills you need to help people facing a wide range of challenges across the lifespan. The overall aims of the course are to enable graduates to acquire advanced understanding, knowledge, skills and professional values in mental health nursing in order that they may develop, deliver, lead, evaluate and research healthcare practice. In addition, the course aims to ensure that nurses who graduate are skilled, competent, compassionate professionals who have satisfied the academic and clinical requirements and standards stipulated in the NMC standards of proficiency and the academic requirements of King’s College London for the award of a Master’s degree.
Key benefits
- You will be studying at the #1 nursing faculty in the world (2025 QS World University Rankings).
- King’s College London offers exciting opportunities with two world-class academic health science centres and renowned teaching hospitals providing mental health care.
- Learn from a highly experienced, enthusiastic and research-active team who provide full support to help you achieve your ambitions.
- Our study courses are delivered by internationally renowned clinicians and academics with a strong focus on promoting evidence-based care and appreciation of translational research.
- You will have the opportunity to take part in our bespoke King’s ‘Virtual Placements’ using a range of simulation modalities such as AI, 360-degree scenarios and live patient interactions. These provide further learning opportunities in areas that you may not always experience in clinical practice, particularly in terms of digital healthcare.
- A training grant of £5,000 from the NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF), and financial support for excess placement travel or accommodation costs.
- We are the largest provider of nursing education in the Russell Group.
“Completing my studies at King's College London has provided me with a dynamic, nurturing, and intellectually stimulating environment. ”
Employability
We are the leading Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care in London, holding an excellent reputation for producing outstanding clinicians and world leaders in specialist areas. Graduates who qualify from our courses also gain professional registration as a Mental Health Nurse from the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Many of our qualifying nurses go on to further study or gain employment in prominent London NHS Trusts, while others choose to work elsewhere in the UK and abroad. There are varied choices of career destinations from hospital and in-patient services, community services and teams, charity and independent sector, criminal justice system and prisons, research, teaching and management. Whatever the chosen pathway, our mental health graduates are well-prepared to face the challenges of a career in mental health and the complexities of pioneering healthcare.
Employability
We are the leading Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care in London, holding an excellent reputation for producing outstanding clinicians and world leaders in specialist areas. Graduates who qualify from our courses also gain professional registration as a Mental Health Nurse from the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Many of our qualifying nurses go on to further study or gain employment in prominent London NHS Trusts, while others choose to work elsewhere in the UK and abroad. There are varied choices of career destinations from hospital and in-patient services, community services and teams, charity and independent sector, criminal justice system and prisons, research, teaching and management. Whatever the chosen pathway, our mental health graduates are well-prepared to face the challenges of a career in mental health and the complexities of pioneering healthcare.
Key information
Course type:
Masters
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time
Duration:
Two years
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
31 January 2025
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