Band 5 Staff Nurse (RMN or RNLD) - Bristol

Job overview

Are you an experienced RMN or RNLD nurse?  If so, we would love to hear from you.

Do you bring passion and commitment to delivering high quality care? Do you understand the clinical and sensory needs of people with a Learning Disability and or Autism?

Cary ward of Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) is looking for an exceptional person to provide leadership to deliver our vision to deliver excellence for people with a learning disability and autistic people in our specialist acute inpatient mental health services

Cary Ward is an 8-bed medium secure unit within Fromeside, Secure Services, supporting men with Learning Disabilities and Autism, who have been detained under the Mental Health Act and many of whom have had involvement with the criminal justice system.

Cary ward is being coproduced and you will be influential in designing and implementing our service and team in partnership with people with lived experience. This is an exciting and ambitious programme that will deliver measurable benefits and clinical outcomes for those people with a learning disability and autistic people and their families by providing the sensory and clinical environment that both supports patients and contributes to recovery.

Due to the clinical risk profile and the need to ensure an appropriate skill mix within the team, the service requires nurses who can practise autonomously and independently.

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.

Please see Job Description for full details