Band 5 Staff Nurse - Blackberry Hill Hospital

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Teign is the 12 bedded Women’s Service within Fromeside medium secure unit in Bristol.
As a registered nurse you will be supported and challenged to consider and develop your future career pathway. You will work closely with service users, family & friends and colleagues to provide high quality individualised care. In exchange we provide strong service specific training and developmental support.
The ward works from assessment to discharge and sees a highly varied and complex clinical mix affording the opportunity to build a wide skill set rooted in a safe basis of high quality risk assessment and management.
You will be a registered nurse with a passion to support women whose, often, traumatic life experience have found them within the criminal justice system.
We have a strong practice development and preceptorship support ethos across the service believing that how we treat our staff is in line with our expectation of their support to service users.
As a unit we have been and remain actively involved in national reducing restrictive practices and are part of the South West Forensic Provider Collaborative footprint.
As an inpatient ward we provide 24/7/365 cover so working a full rotational shift pattern is essential. We would welcome discussing any special working requirements you may have to explore mutually beneficial solutions. To reduce and safely manage incidents on the ward completion of AWP’s RRI training is essential.

To carry out clinical practice within designated clinical areas, ensuring that high quality evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, interventions and evaluations for patients is provided. This will include:

• Undertaking a comprehensive, person-centred, nursing assessment and prepare care plans in consultation with the service users to provide the best nursing care
• Implementation of care and rehabilitation programme
• Evaluation of effectiveness of care provided in partnership with users
• Ability to implement research-based practice
• Following successful completion of preceptorship, ability to supervise junior and unqualified staff
• Ability to administer medicine within relevant Trust and legislative guidance e.g. NMC Standards for Medicines Management 2010 and the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
• Ability to undertake risk assessment and develop risk management strategies for individual clients; ICPA/SAP to people who present with mental health problems.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the key elements of relevant mental Health Legislation
• Ensure the ordering storage, administration and disposal of medication complies with relevant trust and legislative guidance e.g. NMC Standards for Medicines Management 2010,Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and MHA (1983)

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
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.
1. Clinical Practice Management
To carry out clinical practice within designated clinical areas, ensuring that high quality
evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, interventions and evaluations for

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