Training Position Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (VIOS)

• Terms of employment and salary are according to the CAO GGZ scale 55; (Min: € 4,000,- Max: € 5,294,-);

Do you want to grow from a Bachelor-level Nurse into an independent, managing role in mental healthcare? Then this training position as a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner is for you!
We offer training positions at Opleidingsinstelling GGZ-VS and at the MANP GGZ at Hogeschool Utrecht. Together with you, we will determine which learning route fits best: 2 years or 3 years. It is not the certificate that leads, but your experience, capacity to learn, and ambitions.

What you will do
You will be trained to eventually act as a managing practitioner. As a proficient Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, you can perform clinical reasoning and diagnosis, conduct somatic examinations, and prescribe medication within your own area of expertise.

As a Nurse-In-Training-to-Specialist (VIOS), you will work three or three-and-a-half days per week at one of Arkin's specialties. This could include the NPI, a FACT team from Mentrum, or for example Jellinek. During practical learning, you will be supervised by a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, a medical specialist, and by the Mental Health Nurse Practitioner educator. During working hours, four hours per week can be dedicated to practical assignments and supervision. You will follow the theoretical part of the training for 8 hours per week in Utrecht at the relevant educational institution.

In the field of innovation and research - based on evidence-based practice - the Mental Health Nurse Practitioner fulfills a pioneering role. You connect this to direct patient care, which means you make an important contribution to the quality improvement of this care. Providing expertise development and coaching to other professionals is also one of the professional roles.

Two-year training route - starting September 2026 (approx. 3 training positions)
Three-year training route - starting January 2027 (approx. 6 training positions)

Which route suits you best, we will determine together during the selection procedure, during which the selection committee can provide a binding recommendation.

• The training lasts 2 or 3 years. The best fitting training position within one of Arkin's specialties will be considered. In the 2-year training, you work on 2 departments, usually within the same specialty; in the 3-year training, you work on a different department in a different specialty each year. If you follow the three-year training, you will receive a contract for 36 hours per week; for the two-year training, this is a contract of 32 hours per week.
• You work 24 or 28 hours in practice, of which 4 hours can be freely allocated to self-study/innovation. 8 hours are available for attending theoretical lessons;
• For the two-year training, Arkin works together with the MANP GGZ at Hogeschool Utrecht, with weekly lesson days on Tuesdays. The training starts in September 2026.
  For the three-year training variant, Arkin works together with the GGZ VS, with various lesson days. The training starts on January 1, 2027.
• There is an active Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Professional Group (approx. 75 Mental Health Nurse Practitioners and VIOS), and internal accredited training is offered;
• For graduated Mental Health Nurse Practitioners, an annual individual training budget of €2,000 is available;
• Your work location depends on your training position. This will be at one of our Arkin specialties;
• An excellent public transport arrangement for commuting, collective health insurance, a bicycle plan, and an exchange system through which you can, for example, buy/sell vacation days;
• You will get access to Nrgize: a platform with all kinds of sporting activities: from boxing clinics and bootcamps to windsurfing;
• You will get unlimited access to the online training range of Good Habitz.

• You are a BIG-registered Bachelor-level nurse or have completed the in-service B training or MBO-V supplemented with a relevant bachelor's degree;
• You have at least 2 years of work experience in mental healthcare (minimum 0.8 FTE);
• A demonstrable above-average performance as a Bachelor-level Nurse;
• You are eager to learn, reflective, and dare to take responsibility;
• You want to commit yourself long-term to mental healthcare and invest in deepening your expertise;
• Good command of the English language.

Are you doubting whether you can handle a 2- or 3-year training? No problem. We will determine that together, based on a careful conversation and your profile.

An assessment at Bachelor-master level may be part of the admission to the training.

Want to know more about this vacancy?
Are you interested in this beautiful opportunity in your nursing career? Please feel free to contact us. Our Mental Health Nurse Practitioner educator Elfi Rookhuizen would be happy to inform you about the entry requirements, application procedure, and training. She can be reached via 06-83223461.