Band 6 Charge Nurse - Blackberry Hill Hospital, Bristol

Band 6 Charge Nurse - Blackberry Hill Hospital, Bristol

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.

The band 6 charge nurse role is a key member of the in-patient multidisciplinary team. Band 6 charge nursesare 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'sneeds.
• Providing health promotion and education information to service users and carers.
• Undertaking effective treatment supported and delivered in line with current legislation, standard sand 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.

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.

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 ona 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.

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