Band 5 Staff Nurse - Bath

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse to join the Sycamore Team. Sycamore Ward is a 15 bedded all female working age acute ward, situated on the Royal United Hospital Site.

Right to Work in the UK: This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

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.

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.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.