Registered Nurse (Mental Health)
Job description: Look after the mental health and fitness of everyone in the RAF and provide care for other military personnel and entitled civilians
Pay after one year: £28,130
Joining age: 21 – 32
Category: Airmen/airwomen
Usual service: 22 years
Open to: men or women
Similar civilian jobs:
- Community psychiatric nurse
Qualifications you need: Professional – Registered Nurse (Mental Health). You also need a full, clean driving licence
Qualifications you can gain: Additional professional qualifications
Nationality: Citizen of the UK or the Republic of Ireland, or a Commonwealth citizen since birth
The job
As a Registered Nurse (Mental Health) you’ll work in a team with people from many different disciplines, including psychiatry, at departments of community psychiatry. In undertaking your duties, you’ll know and understand the specialised diagnostic procedures and modern treatments using drug therapy, social skills and individual psychotherapy necessary for psychiatric nursing care.
Opportunities
Following additional training, Registered Nurses (Mental Health) may be employed on the Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron based at RAF Lyneham. There, it will be your responsibility to provide psychiatric nursing care to those military personnel and dependants requiring repatriation and aeromedical evacuation to the United Kingdom. You may also go on overseas operations to provide mental healthcare to deployed military personnel.
Specialist information
For more information about a career as a Registered Nurse (Mental Health), or to attend a presentation, contact our Nursing Liaison Team on 01400 266782, or email Cranwell-nslo-snco@careers.raf.mod.uk.
