Band 5 Staff Nurse - Bristol

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

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.

Qualifications

Essential: - RMN Pin Registration; - Willingness to complete or completed relevant course on teaching and assessing in clinical practice or equivalent.

Desirable: - Relevant specialist CPD qualification.; - Post-graduate qualification in nursing or related discipline

Experience & Knowledge

Desirable: - Training in specific clinical interventions; - Evidence of basic counseling and group work; - Evidence of QI work