Mental Health Nursing at City Campus Placement Information

You will have the opportunity to train in a variety of placement types and locations. Broadly speaking, placements work on a “hub and spoke” model.  You will have a “home” Trust and you are likely to be placed with them for the majority of your placement hours. You will also have placements which may be with PVI (private, voluntary, or independent) providers or another Trust. Before confirming your course choice, you should consider if another campus location might be better for you. You will need to be able to make your own way to your placements, to be on shift at the times the area normally works. Many placement areas operate 24/7 shift patterns. You should consider how you will get to placements and back home, including if you have early or late placement patterns. You need to plan to be able to travel to a wide range of potential placements, across the whole of the West Midlands and Staffordshire, not just the hospital sites of the Trust.

You must complete at least 2300 hours in clinical placements during your course. You will be in placement up to 40 hours per week during your placement blocks. Once you have accepted a place on a particular training site (City) it is unlikely you would be able to change your training base as it depends upon there being space at the other site. It is therefore important that you check that the locations given as part of your offer are correct- this will be on the offer letter. If it is not correct or you cannot see it, you should not accept the offer and contact Admissions straight away to see if there is availability for the training site that you require. We would advise that if there are no spaces available you wait for the next available intake rather than choosing a training site where you will struggle with the traveling.

Theoretical studies will take place at Wolverhampton City Campus and the majority of your clinical placements are likely to be with Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust along with PVI (Private, Voluntary, and Independent) providers. BCHFT provides Adult and older adult mental health services, Specialist learning disability services, Mental health services for children and young people, and Community healthcare services for children, young people, and families. BCHFT is also the Lead Provider for mental health, learning disabilities, and autism across the Black Country. As Lead Provider they work in partnership with health, social care, voluntary services, and community organisations to collectively develop and deliver mental health, learning disability, and autism services that help people to live their best lives as part of our Black Country community.