You’ll use your extensive medical skills in a wide range of contexts, from an NHS hospital to some of the most challenging environments in the world.
This is a highly competitive role with potential long lead time to join.
This job sits within the Healthcare & Medical Profession and is a Healthcare & Medical Officer role. Challenging conditions and first-class care don’t always go hand-in-hand. But they will for you as a Nursing Officer. From providing humanitarian aid, to supporting personnel in a maritime environment – you’ll safeguard our people and civilians alike.
I have taken my nursing skills all over the world and worked within some amazing teams, providing care for patients on board ships or in land environments.
Leanne
Nursing Officer, Medical Branch
Life as a Nursing Officer offers extraordinary challenges and responsibilities, but comes with opportunities and rewards to match.
Wherever you go in the world and whatever you’re doing, you’ll play a key part in safeguarding our personnel and civilians alike. You could be in an NHS hospital caring for returning military personnel, or out in the field working in a conflict zone.
Whatever you do, you’ll encounter some of the most challenging environments imaginable, developing both personally and clinically as you experience a life few medical professionals can imagine.
From picking your role to starting on your first day, these are the steps you'll take to join as a rating.
Once you’ve registered your interest in a Profession, and have satisfied some basic eligibility criteria, you will be sent an online application form.
Depending on Profession applied for and professionally qualified status, you’ll be tested on: Verbal Reasoning, Numerical Reasoning, Work Rate, Spatial Reasoning, Electrical Comprehension and Mechanical Comprehension.
To prepare, you can practise the DAA.
A Career Interview to talk through suitability of your chosen Profession and discussion of your preferred roles that are available within that Profession, including Submarine service. It will also cover the initial stages of the Security application. This is normally conducted using your own device over the Shine video platform.
This is an online assessment board where you will be asked to deliver a 10-minute presentation on a clinically related subject and sit a competency-based interview led by Nurse Education Advisor and Medical Specialist Recruitment Team. Assessment Boards are conducted every November.
This four-day induction to life in the Royal Navy is a pass or fail course.
Once you've passed all eligibility criteria, including a Security Check, you’ll be offered a place at HMS Raleigh to commence your initial training, then commence university.
Our virtual recruiter is available to answer your questions 24 hours a day