Brunel offers Occupational Health (OH) students the opportunity of shared, evidence-based theory and practice learning with other Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHN) students for Health Visiting (HV) and School Nursing (SN). The course leads to registration on part 3 of the NMC Register. Brunel is one of the universities that is offering OH as part of the three SCPHN fields simultaneously and has a long and successful track record in the education and training of the three field.

The simultaneous teaching is a demonstration of the existence of common, professional activities and skills that are considered essentially transferable in nature; whilst at the same time carefully preserving the identity and level of field specialist input as indicated in the NMC Standards of Proficiency SCPHN (2022). OH students learn about the physical, chemical, mental, environmental and ergonomic occupational health hazards and how to promote and maintain highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all types of occupations and workplaces. Students are in university 50% and practice 50%. Brunel offers a part-time course over two years with one day a week in university or full-time course with two days a week in university over one year.

Our expert lecturers are experienced OH SCPHNs with some still in practice. Our students gain valuable knowledge from guest speakers as well as experts in other OH-related fields including Law. The lecturers possess many years of experience across different business sectors including oil and gas, construction, railways, the NHS and banking and finance amongst others. OH training at Brunel is within the rapidly growing College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (CHMLS). The information on CHMLS is available here.

Brunel’s CHMLS now has a growing portfolio which includes NMC approved pre-registration nurse training and a Brunel approved CPD course for clinical partners and collaborators who accept students on clinical placements. The growing portfolio enhances Brunel’s vision for the future of OH nurse training prior to, and beyond pre-nursing registration.

All SCPHN students study at Post-graduate diploma (PGDip) (Level 7) in line with the NMC SCPHN Standards (2022). Students can prepare for their dissertation (MSc) during the PGDip study for evidence-based advice or improvement of their OH student placement. Further information is available here

To further develop the taught evidence based OH knowledge, Brunel endorses the content and supports courses organised by The At Work Partnership (AWP), publishers of an OH journal and one of the leading providers of occupational health information and training. The lecturers take part in OH related networking platforms and forums to enhance their knowledge.

Brunel is proud to share a track record of employability and stability in employment of previous Brunel OH students of the last twenty years leading some large London NHS OH departments and varied industry or are successfully self-employed in OH nationally.

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