# Band 5 Staff Nurse (RMN or RNLD) - Bristol > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust Partnership NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-5-staff-nurse-rmn-or-rnld-bristol/503ca39d-8614-47db-903e-75b878f94a8b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-5-staff-nurse-rmn-or-rnld-bristol/503ca39d-8614-47db-903e-75b878f94a8b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust Partnership NHS Trust - **Town:** Bath - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-25T08:01:13.597Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Somerset/Bristol/Avon_Wiltshire_Mental_Health_Partnership_NHS_Trust/Mental_Health_Learning_Disabilities_Nursing/Mental_Health_Learning_Disabilities_Nursing-v8024028 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8024028?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.awp.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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 ## 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 ## Person Specification ### Qualifications & Experience **Essential** - NMC Registered - RMN or RNLD - Experience of working with people who experience mental health difficulties, Learning Disabilities and Autism - Practical experience of providing high quality care and exceeding expectations - Experience of medication administration within inpatient settings and medication management - Understanding of and demonstrable practice within the NMC Code of Practice - Working understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 - Understanding effective risk assessment and developing coproduced safety plans/risk management plans. - Build excellent therapeutic relationships. - Demonstrate a commitment to reducing restrictive practice. - Manage behaviour which may be challenging at times. - Demonstrate leadership skills – motivating others, using own initiative and supporting change management - Willingness to undertake further training relevant to clinical area. - Sufficient post registration experience to work safely and autonomously in a higher risk clinical environment - Demonstrated ability to manage a caseload safely and independently **Desirable** - Relevant specialist CPD, e.g PBS - Evidence of QI work - Able to undertake supervision - Demonstrates knowledge of Kingfisher Services ## Documents - [rmn/rnld (pdf, 472.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10337811) - [financial support & discounts (pdf, 919.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2794) - [value of the nhs pension scheme (pdf, 279.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2795) - [inclusive top 50 uk employers list (pdf, 78.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2439) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.