Band 5 Staff Nurse - Bristol

Job description

Job overview

Bradley Brook is 8 bedded specialist admission and Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) ward within Fromeside Medium Secure Unit, providing assessment, treatment and recovery-focused care for men with complex mental health needs in a secure environment. The ward delivers high-quality, evidence-based care within a multidisciplinary setting, supporting service users through their recovery journey while maintaining safety, dignity and therapeutic engagement.

Why join us?

• Work within a specialist medium secure forensic service.
• Develop skills in assessment, risk management and recovery-focused practice.
• Be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.
• Access ongoing training, supervision and career development opportunities.
• Contribute to delivering high-quality care that positively impacts the lives of service users.

We are recruiting 2 Full Time Substantive and 1 Full Time 12 month Secondment Band 5 Staff Nurse

Main duties of the job

The band 5 staff nurse role is a key member of the in-patient multidisciplinary team. 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

Helping to keep people safe through good risk assessment and good clinical practice

Helping to develop coproduced plans of care, which are personalised and responsive to peoples needs

Providing health promotion 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

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

To carry out clinical nursing practice within designated areas, working to provide high quality, evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, intervention and evaluation.

This will include:

Utilising excellent communication skills to develop a rapport with service users, carers, colleagues and visitors.

Provide and receive complex sensitive confidential information.

Recognising the potential barriers to communication and practicing with empathy, reassurance and understanding.

Undertaking comprehensive nursing assessments using analytical and judgement skills

Collaboratively undertaking clinical risk assessments and developing and supporting personal safety plans and crisis and contingency planning with the service user, and where appropriate carers and families.

Using professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree/diploma level and current practice-based evidence to plan and organise provision of care.

Planning appropriate care and treatment interventions alongside colleagues, service users and where appropriate carers and families.

Providing specialist advice in relation to care to service users and where appropriate carers and families.

Delivering a range of psychosocially-informed nursing therapies in accordance with service user's care plans, needs and preferences.

Utilise opportunities to offer health promotion and education.

Demonstrating developed nursing skills obtained through practice, understanding the importance of accuracy and a narrow margin for error.

Demonstrating a commitment to reducing restrictive practice.

Administering appropriate medication within relevant Trust and legislative guidance

Ensuring the ordering, storing and disposal of medication complies with relevant Trust and legislative guidance.

Demonstrate a working knowledge of the key elements of the relevant Mental Health Legislation.

Collaboratively evaluating the impact and effectiveness of care and working to improve these outcomes.

Supervising the practice of less experienced and newly qualified practitioners, student nurses or support worker colleagues.

Please see attached Job Description for full details

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RMN Pin Registration
• Willingness to complete or completed relevant course on teaching and assessing in clinical practice or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

• Relevant specialist CPD qualification.
• Post-graduate qualification in nursing or related discipline

Experience & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with people who experience mental health difficulties
• Practical experience of providing high quality care and exceeding expectations
• Experience of medication administration within inpatient settings and medication management
• Understanding the importance of Health and Safety
• Experienced in current developments in mental health care and nursing practice
• Understanding effective risk assessment and developing coproduced safety plans/risk management plans.
• Understanding of and demonstrable practice within the NMC Code of Practice
• Working understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983

Desirable criteria

• Training in specific clinical interventions
• Evidence of basic counseling and group work
• Evidence of QI work

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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