Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 6 Charge Nurse - Bristol
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Teign Ward is a 12 bedded female blended inpatient ward with Medium and Low Secure service users. The Charge Nurse role is a key member of the in-patient multidisciplinary team. Charge Nurses are expected to provide clear clinical leadership and supervision of junior staff and trainees whilst working with service users and their families, friends and carers to help make a difference to the experience of those using our services by:
- Demonstrating kindness, respect and compassion through the delivery of confident and competent nursing.
- Helping to keep people safe through effective risk assessment and good clinical decision making.
- Helping to develop coproduced plans of care, which are personalised and responsive to people’s needs.
- Providing health promotion and education information to service users and carers.
- Undertaking effective treatment supported and delivered in line with current legislation, standards and evidence-based guidance.
- Providing supervision and mentoring to other staff and students.
- Being part of the AWP vision to provide high quality care.
In addition to these key tasks, the Charge Nurse is expected to provide clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and support staff, and ensure the effective running of the inpatient setting in the absence of the Ward Manager.
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To carry out clinical nursing practice within designated areas, working to provide high quality, evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, intervention and evaluation.
To maintain and develop professional knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure that practice reflects best practice, remains evidence based, is current and responsive to the changing service user and NHS service needs.
To provide clinical leadership for colleagues and external professionals at all levels. Making the best use of resources to ensure the delivery of high-quality care. Follow Trust policies in relation to the security of the building and service users to ensure safe practice and protection of service users, staff, visitors and members of the public.
To maintain standards of record keeping and associated administration in accordance with AWP Trust Policy and professional guidelines.
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.
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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.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sue Pinnell
- Job title: Ward Manager
- Email address: spinnell1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01173546104
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