Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 5 Staff Nurse - Swindon
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Applewood House
Applewood House is a 15 bedded male acute unit located in Swindon, Wiltshire. We work with a range of service users who are presenting as acutely unwell and in crises.
About the Role
We are looking for professional and enthusiastic nurses to come and work with our wonderful team of qualified nurses, HCA's, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Exercise Specialists, Activities Coordinator and Doctors.
There will be opportunities to develop and continue your professional and learning development alongside the expectation of duties of the job outlined below.
This role is within an acute inpatient ward that operates on a 24/7 shift basis. Staff will qualify for unsocial enhancements in addition to their basic pay.
Successful applicants will also be required to undertake and complete a Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression course. This enables staff to begin building the skills to de-escalate service users in peaks of distress whilst maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment for all.
Responsibilities
To carry out clinical practice within designated clinical areas, ensuring that high quality evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, interventions, and evaluations for patients is provided.
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This Will Include
- Undertaking a comprehensive, person-centred, nursing assessment and prepare care plans in consultation with the service users to provide the best nursing care.
- Implementation of care and rehabilitation programme.
- Evaluation of effectiveness of care provided in partnership with users.
- Ability to implement research-based practice.
- Following successful completion of preceptorship, ability to supervise junior and unqualified staff.
- Ability to administer medicine within relevant Trust and legislative guidance e.g. NMC Standards for Medicines Management 2010 and the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
- Ability to undertake risk assessment and develop risk management strategies for individual clients; ICPA/SAP to people who present with mental health problems.
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.
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: Itai Chipumha
- Job title: Ward Manager
- Email address: i.chipumha@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01793 836841
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