Band 6 Charge Nurse - Blackberry Hill Hospital, Bristol

Job overview

Are you keen to develop your skills and CV further?

Are you passionate about providing high-quality care as part of a skilled multi-disciplinary team?

We are looking for experienced staff who are motivated to:

Be part of new developments and be at the forefront of planning, implementing, and quality improvement plans. Help us take these services to the fore in the field of forensic services!

Secure services are currently working hard to develop and improve our services, and we require outward-thinking and innovative approaches from our staff while remaining committed to maintaining safety and security.

Main duties of the job

The band 6 charge nurse role is a key member of the in-patient multidisciplinary team. Band 6 charge nurses are expected to provide clear clinical leadership and supervision of junior staff and trainees whilst 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 through the delivery of confident and competent nursing.
• Helping to keep people safe through effective risk assessment and good clinical decision making.
• Helping to develop coproduced plans of care, which are personalised and responsive to people’s needs.
• Providing health promotion and education 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 o Being part of the AWP vision to provide high quality care.

In addition to these key tasks, the band 6 charge nurse is expected to provide clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and support staff, and ensure the effective running of the inpatient setting in the absence of the Ward Manager.

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 to be able to provide and receive complex sensitive confidential information including distressing or emotional circumstances.

Recognising the potential barriers to communication and practicing with empathy, reassurance and understanding.

Undertaking complex comprehensive nursing assessments using analytical and judgement skills on a range of problems requiring investigation.

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, supplemented by specialist clinical training 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.

Organising complex interventions requiring formulation of need and risk.

Demonstrating highly developed nursing skills obtained through practice, understanding the importance of accuracy and a narrow margin for error.

Demonstrating a commitment to reducing restrictive practice whilst supporting challenging behaviour and verbal aggression.

Delivery of restrictive interventions within Trust and legislative guidance, requiring a varying level of physical effort.

Administering appropriate medication within relevant Trust and legislative guidance, by different routes including injectable medicines.

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.

Leading clinical meetings to support the service users journey through the care pathway, proactively identifying and overcoming barriers to discharge.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please see the attached job description.