Band 5 Staff Nurse - Bristol

Job description

Job overview

Lime Unit is an all male acute mental health unit looking for NMC registered mental health nurses trained in Psychiatry.

Lime Unit will support and encourage you to be the best you can be in your role.

We want staff with commitment to the acute inpatient setting who want to work along side patients in crisis and aid them with recovery.

Main duties of the job

Support and maintain a therapeutic environment.

Manage shifts and keep a safe working environment for both patients and staff. Work in a flexible way, including early, late and night shifts, weekends and bank holidays.

Be able to respond to physical aggression and verbal aggression have resilience and de-escalation skills.

Work in a MDT team have confidence and ability to participate in meetings.

Acting as a keyworker to allocated patients.

Working for our organisation

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.

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 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Work to NMC levels of conduct.

Maintain care to expectations of the trust and CQC.

Manage shifts.

Manage staff.

Act as keyworker to allocated patients.

Person specification

RMN qualification

Essential criteria

• RMN qualification
• Experience working on wards

Desirable criteria

• Interest in working with adult male patients

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems.
• Able to manage behaviour which may be challenging at times.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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