36 monthsProgramme duration
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Nursing
Degree
BN
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Whatever first motivates you to want to work in partnership with people with learning disability, it’s a decision our students never regret. As a learning disabilities nurse, you’ll provide the specialist assessment, treatment, care and support to enable children, young people and adults facing a range of physical and mental challenges to lead a fulfilling life as independently as possible.
Validated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), our Bachelor of Learning Disabilities Nursing (BN) prepares you to become a professional, caring and competent nurse, who prioritises patient needs. It blends wide-ranging clinical placements* with research based theory and supported clinical skills training featuring experts through experience and virtual technologies, which enable you to practise skills in a supported environment.
Spending half of your time on placement instils the importance of being part of a wider healthcare team, where you are supported by a designated practice supervisor and practice assessor to support you to develop your clinical skills. You’ll be working alongside experienced nurses with valuable knowledge and insight they are only too willing to pass on. You’ll also be taught by academics and clinical experts who are passionate to share their wealth of skills, knowledge and experience of learning disabilities nursing.
Learning disabilities nursing is underpinned by values of equality and inclusion, human rights, personalisation, strengths-based, person-centred, partnerships, respect and health-focused. These values underpin learning disabilities nursing practice and the BN (Hons) Learning Disabilities Nursing course.
Understanding diversity is key to providing person-centred, holistic nursing to meet identified needs. Learning disabilities nurses work in partnership with the person and their family and/or carers, often alongside multidisciplinary teams across health and social care. You will develop an understanding of their needs and use an evidence-based approach to think creatively and flexibility to support and enable individuals to reach their full potential.
From the outset, clinical skills training builds the skills required to become a professional registered nurse. Our simulation-based training equipment, using VR and lifelike manikins, lets you safely examine ‘patients’ and interact in real-time to clinical situations based on real-life examples. This prepares you for the realities of working and responding to such situations, both on placement and future practice.
Clinical placements across Wales enable you (subject to availability) to experience a range of settings where children, young persons, adults and older people are supported. Current opportunities, for example, include: child and adult community teams; supported living; specialist in-patient services; intensive support services; continuing health; and acute and primary care liaison services.
As a learning disabilities nurse, you will continue to develop your practice to meet the changing needs of the individuals you support and work with. You could find yourself listening to and learning from children, young people or adults with learning disability to identify the challenges they face to health and wellbeing. Using the evidence, you’ll need to think flexibly and creatively of strategies and solutions.
Day to day, you’ll assess physical, psychological, mental, social, and emotional wellbeing with an understanding of capacity, reasonable adjustments and health equality. Communication and people skills are key, using therapeutic interventions, such as positive behaviour support, and outcome measures to develop shared goals and measure clinical gain.
Please note that in order to achieve the necessary diversity of placement experience to meet the requirements for clinical competency, you will need to travel to placements across Wales.
Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
To work in the UK as a nurse, you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). To do this, you first need to study an NMC-recognised degree programme, which leads to a specific degree qualification for your chosen field (adult, child, mental health or learning disability nursing).
Bangor University’s nursing degrees are developed and delivered with NHS partners and adhere to the NMC education standards. On graduation, you’ll be eligible to register with the NMC as a Learning Disabilities Nurse. As you progress through your career, you can choose to pursue advance nurse practice roles, consultant nurse and advisory roles, to management, clinical academic posts and or research.
Specialist learning disabilities nursing roles continue to diversify. Nurses can specialise in positive behaviour support, early intervention, forensic, health promotion and public health, neurodivergence, special school nursing, child health, transition, older adult and dementia, health equality (physical healthcare), epilepsy, postural care, dysphagia, health liaison, safeguarding to in-patients or community specialist roles.
Funding support for nursing students
Considerable financial support is available if you are considered a home student* for tuition fees (someone already living within the UK) and can commit to working in Wales for two years on graduation. You could get your tuition fees covered in full through the NHS Wales bursary scheme and claim for a £1,000 bursary contribution to living costs. A wide range of additional support, subject to eligibility, is also available for childcare, parent learners, disabled students and more.
Furthermore, as part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to develop a bilingual workforce, additional financial incentives are available if you study part of your course in Welsh. We will support you to access Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Scholarships which could award you up to £1,000 for each year of your study, depending on how many credits you study in Welsh.
Please note that as this course is funded by NHS Wales, we are unable to accept applications from international students.
Validated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), our Bachelor of Learning Disabilities Nursing (BN) prepares you to become a professional, caring and competent nurse, who prioritises patient needs. It blends wide-ranging clinical placements* with research based theory and supported clinical skills training featuring experts through experience and virtual technologies, which enable you to practise skills in a supported environment.
Spending half of your time on placement instils the importance of being part of a wider healthcare team, where you are supported by a designated practice supervisor and practice assessor to support you to develop your clinical skills. You’ll be working alongside experienced nurses with valuable knowledge and insight they are only too willing to pass on. You’ll also be taught by academics and clinical experts who are passionate to share their wealth of skills, knowledge and experience of learning disabilities nursing.
Learning disabilities nursing is underpinned by values of equality and inclusion, human rights, personalisation, strengths-based, person-centred, partnerships, respect and health-focused. These values underpin learning disabilities nursing practice and the BN (Hons) Learning Disabilities Nursing course.
Understanding diversity is key to providing person-centred, holistic nursing to meet identified needs. Learning disabilities nurses work in partnership with the person and their family and/or carers, often alongside multidisciplinary teams across health and social care. You will develop an understanding of their needs and use an evidence-based approach to think creatively and flexibility to support and enable individuals to reach their full potential.
From the outset, clinical skills training builds the skills required to become a professional registered nurse. Our simulation-based training equipment, using VR and lifelike manikins, lets you safely examine ‘patients’ and interact in real-time to clinical situations based on real-life examples. This prepares you for the realities of working and responding to such situations, both on placement and future practice.
Clinical placements across Wales enable you (subject to availability) to experience a range of settings where children, young persons, adults and older people are supported. Current opportunities, for example, include: child and adult community teams; supported living; specialist in-patient services; intensive support services; continuing health; and acute and primary care liaison services.
As a learning disabilities nurse, you will continue to develop your practice to meet the changing needs of the individuals you support and work with. You could find yourself listening to and learning from children, young people or adults with learning disability to identify the challenges they face to health and wellbeing. Using the evidence, you’ll need to think flexibly and creatively of strategies and solutions.
Day to day, you’ll assess physical, psychological, mental, social, and emotional wellbeing with an understanding of capacity, reasonable adjustments and health equality. Communication and people skills are key, using therapeutic interventions, such as positive behaviour support, and outcome measures to develop shared goals and measure clinical gain.
Please note that in order to achieve the necessary diversity of placement experience to meet the requirements for clinical competency, you will need to travel to placements across Wales.
Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
To work in the UK as a nurse, you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). To do this, you first need to study an NMC-recognised degree programme, which leads to a specific degree qualification for your chosen field (adult, child, mental health or learning disability nursing).
Bangor University’s nursing degrees are developed and delivered with NHS partners and adhere to the NMC education standards. On graduation, you’ll be eligible to register with the NMC as a Learning Disabilities Nurse. As you progress through your career, you can choose to pursue advance nurse practice roles, consultant nurse and advisory roles, to management, clinical academic posts and or research.
Specialist learning disabilities nursing roles continue to diversify. Nurses can specialise in positive behaviour support, early intervention, forensic, health promotion and public health, neurodivergence, special school nursing, child health, transition, older adult and dementia, health equality (physical healthcare), epilepsy, postural care, dysphagia, health liaison, safeguarding to in-patients or community specialist roles.
Funding support for nursing students
Considerable financial support is available if you are considered a home student* for tuition fees (someone already living within the UK) and can commit to working in Wales for two years on graduation. You could get your tuition fees covered in full through the NHS Wales bursary scheme and claim for a £1,000 bursary contribution to living costs. A wide range of additional support, subject to eligibility, is also available for childcare, parent learners, disabled students and more.
Furthermore, as part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to develop a bilingual workforce, additional financial incentives are available if you study part of your course in Welsh. We will support you to access Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Scholarships which could award you up to £1,000 for each year of your study, depending on how many credits you study in Welsh.
Please note that as this course is funded by NHS Wales, we are unable to accept applications from international students.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Nursing
Degree
BN
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Whatever first motivates you to want to work in partnership with people with learning disability, it’s a decision our students never regret. As a learning disabilities nurse, you’ll provide the specialist assessment, treatment, care and support to enable children, young people and adults facing a range of physical and mental challenges to lead a fulfilling life as independently as possible.
Validated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), our Bachelor of Learning Disabilities Nursing (BN) prepares you to become a professional, caring and competent nurse, who prioritises patient needs. It blends wide-ranging clinical placements* with research based theory and supported clinical skills training featuring experts through experience and virtual technologies, which enable you to practise skills in a supported environment.
Spending half of your time on placement instils the importance of being part of a wider healthcare team, where you are supported by a designated practice supervisor and practice assessor to support you to develop your clinical skills. You’ll be working alongside experienced nurses with valuable knowledge and insight they are only too willing to pass on. You’ll also be taught by academics and clinical experts who are passionate to share their wealth of skills, knowledge and experience of learning disabilities nursing.
Learning disabilities nursing is underpinned by values of equality and inclusion, human rights, personalisation, strengths-based, person-centred, partnerships, respect and health-focused. These values underpin learning disabilities nursing practice and the BN (Hons) Learning Disabilities Nursing course.
Understanding diversity is key to providing person-centred, holistic nursing to meet identified needs. Learning disabilities nurses work in partnership with the person and their family and/or carers, often alongside multidisciplinary teams across health and social care. You will develop an understanding of their needs and use an evidence-based approach to think creatively and flexibility to support and enable individuals to reach their full potential.
From the outset, clinical skills training builds the skills required to become a professional registered nurse. Our simulation-based training equipment, using VR and lifelike manikins, lets you safely examine ‘patients’ and interact in real-time to clinical situations based on real-life examples. This prepares you for the realities of working and responding to such situations, both on placement and future practice.
Clinical placements across Wales enable you (subject to availability) to experience a range of settings where children, young persons, adults and older people are supported. Current opportunities, for example, include: child and adult community teams; supported living; specialist in-patient services; intensive support services; continuing health; and acute and primary care liaison services.
As a learning disabilities nurse, you will continue to develop your practice to meet the changing needs of the individuals you support and work with. You could find yourself listening to and learning from children, young people or adults with learning disability to identify the challenges they face to health and wellbeing. Using the evidence, you’ll need to think flexibly and creatively of strategies and solutions.
Day to day, you’ll assess physical, psychological, mental, social, and emotional wellbeing with an understanding of capacity, reasonable adjustments and health equality. Communication and people skills are key, using therapeutic interventions, such as positive behaviour support, and outcome measures to develop shared goals and measure clinical gain.
Please note that in order to achieve the necessary diversity of placement experience to meet the requirements for clinical competency, you will need to travel to placements across Wales.
Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
To work in the UK as a nurse, you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). To do this, you first need to study an NMC-recognised degree programme, which leads to a specific degree qualification for your chosen field (adult, child, mental health or learning disability nursing).
Bangor University’s nursing degrees are developed and delivered with NHS partners and adhere to the NMC education standards. On graduation, you’ll be eligible to register with the NMC as a Learning Disabilities Nurse. As you progress through your career, you can choose to pursue advance nurse practice roles, consultant nurse and advisory roles, to management, clinical academic posts and or research.
Specialist learning disabilities nursing roles continue to diversify. Nurses can specialise in positive behaviour support, early intervention, forensic, health promotion and public health, neurodivergence, special school nursing, child health, transition, older adult and dementia, health equality (physical healthcare), epilepsy, postural care, dysphagia, health liaison, safeguarding to in-patients or community specialist roles.
Funding support for nursing students
Considerable financial support is available if you are considered a home student* for tuition fees (someone already living within the UK) and can commit to working in Wales for two years on graduation. You could get your tuition fees covered in full through the NHS Wales bursary scheme and claim for a £1,000 bursary contribution to living costs. A wide range of additional support, subject to eligibility, is also available for childcare, parent learners, disabled students and more.
Furthermore, as part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to develop a bilingual workforce, additional financial incentives are available if you study part of your course in Welsh. We will support you to access Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Scholarships which could award you up to £1,000 for each year of your study, depending on how many credits you study in Welsh.
Please note that as this course is funded by NHS Wales, we are unable to accept applications from international students.
Validated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), our Bachelor of Learning Disabilities Nursing (BN) prepares you to become a professional, caring and competent nurse, who prioritises patient needs. It blends wide-ranging clinical placements* with research based theory and supported clinical skills training featuring experts through experience and virtual technologies, which enable you to practise skills in a supported environment.
Spending half of your time on placement instils the importance of being part of a wider healthcare team, where you are supported by a designated practice supervisor and practice assessor to support you to develop your clinical skills. You’ll be working alongside experienced nurses with valuable knowledge and insight they are only too willing to pass on. You’ll also be taught by academics and clinical experts who are passionate to share their wealth of skills, knowledge and experience of learning disabilities nursing.
Learning disabilities nursing is underpinned by values of equality and inclusion, human rights, personalisation, strengths-based, person-centred, partnerships, respect and health-focused. These values underpin learning disabilities nursing practice and the BN (Hons) Learning Disabilities Nursing course.
Understanding diversity is key to providing person-centred, holistic nursing to meet identified needs. Learning disabilities nurses work in partnership with the person and their family and/or carers, often alongside multidisciplinary teams across health and social care. You will develop an understanding of their needs and use an evidence-based approach to think creatively and flexibility to support and enable individuals to reach their full potential.
From the outset, clinical skills training builds the skills required to become a professional registered nurse. Our simulation-based training equipment, using VR and lifelike manikins, lets you safely examine ‘patients’ and interact in real-time to clinical situations based on real-life examples. This prepares you for the realities of working and responding to such situations, both on placement and future practice.
Clinical placements across Wales enable you (subject to availability) to experience a range of settings where children, young persons, adults and older people are supported. Current opportunities, for example, include: child and adult community teams; supported living; specialist in-patient services; intensive support services; continuing health; and acute and primary care liaison services.
As a learning disabilities nurse, you will continue to develop your practice to meet the changing needs of the individuals you support and work with. You could find yourself listening to and learning from children, young people or adults with learning disability to identify the challenges they face to health and wellbeing. Using the evidence, you’ll need to think flexibly and creatively of strategies and solutions.
Day to day, you’ll assess physical, psychological, mental, social, and emotional wellbeing with an understanding of capacity, reasonable adjustments and health equality. Communication and people skills are key, using therapeutic interventions, such as positive behaviour support, and outcome measures to develop shared goals and measure clinical gain.
Please note that in order to achieve the necessary diversity of placement experience to meet the requirements for clinical competency, you will need to travel to placements across Wales.
Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
To work in the UK as a nurse, you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). To do this, you first need to study an NMC-recognised degree programme, which leads to a specific degree qualification for your chosen field (adult, child, mental health or learning disability nursing).
Bangor University’s nursing degrees are developed and delivered with NHS partners and adhere to the NMC education standards. On graduation, you’ll be eligible to register with the NMC as a Learning Disabilities Nurse. As you progress through your career, you can choose to pursue advance nurse practice roles, consultant nurse and advisory roles, to management, clinical academic posts and or research.
Specialist learning disabilities nursing roles continue to diversify. Nurses can specialise in positive behaviour support, early intervention, forensic, health promotion and public health, neurodivergence, special school nursing, child health, transition, older adult and dementia, health equality (physical healthcare), epilepsy, postural care, dysphagia, health liaison, safeguarding to in-patients or community specialist roles.
Funding support for nursing students
Considerable financial support is available if you are considered a home student* for tuition fees (someone already living within the UK) and can commit to working in Wales for two years on graduation. You could get your tuition fees covered in full through the NHS Wales bursary scheme and claim for a £1,000 bursary contribution to living costs. A wide range of additional support, subject to eligibility, is also available for childcare, parent learners, disabled students and more.
Furthermore, as part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to develop a bilingual workforce, additional financial incentives are available if you study part of your course in Welsh. We will support you to access Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Scholarships which could award you up to £1,000 for each year of your study, depending on how many credits you study in Welsh.
Please note that as this course is funded by NHS Wales, we are unable to accept applications from international students.
Admission Requirements
96+
GCSEs: applicants must normally have, or be working towards, a minimum of five GCSE grades A*-C/9-4 including GCSE Welsh or English first language and Mathematics/Numeracy (or a recognised alternative qualification), but consideration is given to individual circumstances.
Recognised alternative qualifications for Welsh/English and/or Mathematics are Essential Skills Level Two in Communication and Application of Number, or Functional Skills Level Two in English and Maths (must be achieved within the last 3 years). The Irish Leaving Certificate minimum of O4 is the equivalent to GCSE Grade C/4.
Offers are tariff based, 96 - 120 UCAS tariff points for the Bachelor of Nursing programmes:
We welcome applications from mature students who are completing an Access HE Diploma or who have evidence of recent study at Level 3 or above in the past five years which meets our entry requirements. Please note: We do not accept NVQ Level 3/QCF Level 3 as a means of meeting our entry qualifications.
For a full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www.ucas.com.
Recognised alternative qualifications for Welsh/English and/or Mathematics are Essential Skills Level Two in Communication and Application of Number, or Functional Skills Level Two in English and Maths (must be achieved within the last 3 years). The Irish Leaving Certificate minimum of O4 is the equivalent to GCSE Grade C/4.
Offers are tariff based, 96 - 120 UCAS tariff points for the Bachelor of Nursing programmes:
- A Levels: General Studies and Key Skills not normally accepted
- T-Levels in a relevant subject will be considered on a case by case basis
- BTEC National Extended Diploma: MMM - DDM
- Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: MMM - DDM
- City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended Diploma (1080): contact us for advice
- International Baccalaureate Diploma
- Extended Project Qualification: Points can include a relevant Extended Project (EPQ) but must include a minimum 2 full A-levels, or equivalent
- Access: to include Distinction / Merit profile (maximum 9 Passes)
- Welsh Baccalaureate: We will accept this qualification in conjunction with other level 3 qualifications
- Irish Leaving Certificate: 96 - 120 points from a minimum of 4 Higher Subjects
- FETAC QQI Level 5 Certificate in Nursing Studies: distinction profile
We welcome applications from mature students who are completing an Access HE Diploma or who have evidence of recent study at Level 3 or above in the past five years which meets our entry requirements. Please note: We do not accept NVQ Level 3/QCF Level 3 as a means of meeting our entry qualifications.
For a full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www.ucas.com.
3 Years
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
9,790 GBP
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