The University of Sheffield
The School of Nursing and Midwifery

How to apply?

Please be aware that we only offer adult branch nurse training. There is no opportunity to study Learning Disability, Mental Health, Child nursing or Midwifery. However, you will be exposed to these specialities whilst in practice.

Entry requirements

Academic

  • A first degree of 2:2 classification or above in a relevant academic discipline discipline e.g. Social, Behavioural and Human sciences or Health and Social Care related degrees
  • GCSE (or equivalent) English, Mathematics and Sciences at grades A* to C

Literacy and numeracy are essential under Nursing and Midwirey Council's requirement. Your application and interview are designed to consider these areas.

Work Experience

All applicants must be able to provide evidence of 650 hours of health related work experience. The two main reasons for this experience are to give you a true insight into working in healthcare and to develop the essentials skills needed to be a successful Nurse.

Participatory work experience (not simply observing, but a 'hands on' role) is extremely valuable. Many applicants arrange to undertake paid or voluntary work as a Healthcare Assistant. Whatever work experience you have, it is important that you reflect effectively on this in your Personal Statement.
Please read the full guidance on work experience and your personal statement here before submitting your application.

Health

Health screening forms will be sent to applicants who have firmly accepted an offer of a place. This will require that GP´s fill in a form documenting immunisation history.
An immunisation programme may be required if individuals are not up to date or need additional vaccinations prior to clinical placements.

The School of Nursing continually reviews the immunisation requirements and procedures for nursing students, taking into account national guidance, and you will be required to comply with any such amendments if you are offered a provisional place.

Students who have serious health problems must disclose this on their Occupational health form, as their course may need to be modified to accommodate Department of Health guidance on activities which they may or may not perform. All potential students with significant health problems will be individually assessed for suitability for the course.

It is imperative that all procedures outlined above are followed precisely to avoid prejudicing your entry to the course.

Criminal Records Disclosure (CRB) Check

All applicants for entry to Nursing are required to undergo a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check . Admission to the course offered by the University of Sheffield, School of Nursing is subject to the Rehabilitiation of Offenders Act (1974) Section 4(2) (Exemption) Order 1975 and the Department of Health Circular HC (88)9 guidelines regarding child protection and police checks. Before being admitted on to this course, therefore, you will need to apply for an enhanced disclosure document from the Criminal Records Bureau.

If you have any queries on the above please contact the Admissions Tutor: Mark Limb, 0114 222 2051, m.k.limb@sheffield.ac.uk

For more information on the acrediation of prior learning (APL) please click here.

Applying

To apply for this course please apply through UCAS.

Please read all guidance on the UCAS website before completing and submitting your application. Here are some further points to remember:

  • Always give full details of your qualifications especially if international
  • If you are awaiting your results ensure your referee gives a prediction in your reference
  • Your personal statement is VERY important, read the full guidance here.

     

What next?

Applications will initially be checked that they meet our minimum academic requirements. We will look at the results of all your previous qualifications and the predictions of any qualifications that you are currently studying for. If these conditions are met, your application will then be sent out to members of the course team who will consider your suitability for entry to the course.

On the basis of information provided on the application and the reference the team will identify if you are suitable to interview with potential for admission to the course.

If you are invited to interview you will be sent full details of what the process involves and how you can prepare.

Once you have been interviewed all offers will be made through UCAS, usually within 3 weeks. All the offers that we make are also subject to the receipt of a satisfactory health questionnaire and a satisfactory enhanced Criminal Record Bureau check (or equivalent). Please read the sections on Health Requirements and Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks  for further details. We will send you details about how to arrange your CRB check and health requirements.

Students with a disability

There are two factors to bear in mind if you have a disability, and are considering studying nursing:

  1. Your personal experience with disability can give you greater insight into the lives of many of your patients, and make you better equipped to assist them as a doctor. As a consequence, we welcome applications from disabled people.
  2. Nurse training covers every aspect of health care, and includes involvement in patient care during practice placements. If your disability is such as to make it impossible for you to practice, we would be unable to accept you onto the course. As a consequence and to ensure that effective support can be provided, disabled applicants, and applicants with serious health problems should contact the admissions tutor before applying.

Overseas applicants

If you are living overseas and have never been a resident of the UK, any offer of a place will be subject to the equivalent of a CRB check, normally a satisfactory check from your local police station (sometimes referred to as a Certificate of Good Conduct).

If you have lived overseas for a period of 3 months or more since the age of 16 and are now resident in the UK you will be required to provide both a CRB check and an overseas equivalent.

Deferred entry

You may apply for deferred entry if you wish and your application will not be disadvantaged.

If you receive an offer of a place for deferred entry, and firmly accept it, you will need to undergo the CRB check during your gap year. We will write to you at a later date with details of how to arrange this.