The healthcare sector is one of the largest sources of employment in the UK.
We offer a range of post-registration and professional development programmes to further your qualifications and help you meet your career goals.
Find out more about our professional development opportunities
We offer a range of post-registration and professional development programmes to further your qualifications and help you meet your career goals.
Find out more about our professional development opportunities
Shape your career as a nurse or midwife by specialising in the areas you want, work flexibly both in the UK and abroad, and be part of a wider multidisciplinary team.
At Plymouth, you’ll embark on a rewarding career, and have the option to be employed in the NHS, private sector or both.
£5,000 bursary for nursing students
The Government is issuing nursing students at least £5,000 a year, which does not need to be paid back. A further £3,000 a year is available for eligible students.
Nursing courses are offered across three campuses spread across the South West in Plymouth, Truro and Exeter.
Some nursing courses are available at Truro School of Nursing – The Knowledge Spa and the Exeter School of Nursing.
Studying at Truro or Exeter enables students who are beyond the commuting distance of our Plymouth campus to study with us without having to commit to long travel times.
Our contemporary facilities and equipment will maximise your potential and develop your core skills so you are ready to embark on an exciting and rewarding career.
Simulated practice requires a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, in order to keep our patients and service users safe. When learning skills, students need an understanding of why, when and how that action is best carried out, which is why we have invested in our clinical skills labs.
This unconscious bias is on the way to being addressed on the medical front as female medical student numbers have escalated in recent years – with women now accounting for over half of medical professionals at a training grade. Yet the amount of men training to become nurses has plateaued for decades at between 8–11%.
