Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 5 Staff Nurse - Bristol
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Oakwood Ward
Oakwood Ward is an all male acute ward for adults of working age, for service users experiencing an acute episode of mental illness. Working on Oakwood would give you a wealth of learning opportunities to develop new skills in working with service users from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures.
This 6 month post would give a Staff Nurse the opportunity to work in a different or new environment, in either a fixed term contract or secondment position if already working within AWP.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our experienced and cohesive team. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality, evidence-based individualised and person centred care with the emphasis being on providing a therapeutic environment, allowing our service users a space for assessment, treatment and recovery.
All nursing staff are expected to work a mixture of shifts, consisting of earlies, lates, nights and weekends. All staff are expected to have undertaken or undertake RRI training and PERT.
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Responsibilities
Your role as a Band 5 Staff Nurse will include:
- Coordinating shifts
- Attending MDT meetings
- Completing medication rounds
- Supervising students and HCSW's
You will work closely with service users in the key working role, supporting both service users and their carers during their admission and discharge back in to the community.
Development
We are keen to develop our Staff Nurses; you will receive relevant training and supervision, and have the opportunity to work with a wide Multi Disciplinary Team.
About Us
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
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Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million people.
Diversity and Inclusion
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Annabel Parry
- Job title: Ward Manager
- Email address: annabel.parry@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01173546630
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