Band 6 Charge Nurse - Bristol

Job description

Job overview

Hopton Ward is a 7 bedded male ward, supporting men who are in their rehabilitation journey as well as those progressing towards a move into the community.

Service users on Hopton Ward can require a high level of support including support with treatment of Mental Illness, Physical health support and Personal Care needs.

Our service user group often consists of those working through the criminal justice system.

We are looking for someone with:

• Passion for Clinical leadership.
• Significant experience of working in a mental health setting. Ideally with experience in a Charge Nurse Position.
• Knowledge of mental health frameworks and recovery principles.
• Strong interpersonal and communication abilities within a mental health setting.
• A compassionate, person-centred approach.
• Flexible and adaptable to change.
• Ability to manage time effectively and prioritise appropriately.

Main duties of the job

To inspire, lead and provide clear leadership to those working on the ward, enabling service delivery of the highest quality, ensuring that people who have Mental Health concerns are provided with a quality, person centred approach to care delivery, which always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity.

Line Management of those within your Supervision Team.

Undertaking clinical Audits.

Formulating and contributing towards Action Plans as a result of audit outcome.

Providing clinical support across Blackberry Hill hospital in an on call capacity in the role of 'Unit Nurse In Charge'.

Covering the responsibilities of the Ward Manager when they are absent.

Contributing to Quality Improvement Projects.

Ensuring high quality documentation.

Developing and communicating risk management plans.

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 2,200 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Nursing Practice

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 to be able to provide and receive complex sensitive confidential information including distressing or emotional circumstances.

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

Undertaking complex comprehensive nursing assessments using analytical and judgement skills on a range of problems requiring investigation.

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, supplemented by specialist clinical training 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.

Organising complex interventions requiring formulation of need and risk.

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

Demonstrating a commitment to reducing restrictive practice whilst supporting challenging behavior and verbal aggression.

Delivery of restrictive interventions within Trust and legislative guidance, requiring a varying level of physical effort.

Administering appropriate medication within relevant Trust and legislative guidance, by different routes including injectable medicines.

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.

Leading clinical meetings to support the service users journey through the care pathway, proactively identifying and overcoming barriers to discharge.

Please see Job Description for full details

Person specification

Qualifications & Experience

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse (Learning Disabilities, Mental Health or Adult) with current NMC registration
• Substantial post-registration clinical practice, and experience of managing / leading

Desirable criteria

• Experience of leading teams with the provision of care and treatment

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate programmes of care and treatment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing
• Good working knowledge of relevant statutory codes of conduct and practice- . NMCs the Code, Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act, DoL's

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and Understanding of the Criminal Justice System

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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