Band 5 RMN Nurse

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health service provider in Wiltshire seeks dedicated nurses for their acute inpatient ward. This role offers opportunities for professional development and requires conducting comprehensive nursing assessments, creating care plans, and administering treatments. Successful candidates will work within a supportive team environment aimed at providing high-quality care to patients in crisis.

Benefits

Unsocial hours enhancements

Ongoing professional development

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse qualification required.
• Experience in mental health nursing preferable.
• Ability to work on a 24/7 shift basis.

Responsibilities

• Conduct nursing assessments and establish care plans.
• Administer prescribed medication and evaluate care effectiveness.
• Supervise junior staff after preceptorship.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Care planning

Crisis intervention

Medication administration

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Job overview

Poppy Unit is a 20 bedded mixed acute unit located in the heart of Wiltshire. We work with a range of service users who are presenting as acutely unwell and in crises.

We are looking for professional and enthusiastic nurses to come and work with our wonderful team of qualified nurses, HCA's, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapist, Exercise Specialists, Activities Coordinator and Doctors.

There will be opportunities to develop and continue your professional and learning development alongside the expectation of duties of the job outlined below.

This role is within a acute inpatient ward that operates on a 24/7 shift basis. Staff will qualify for unsocial enhancements in addition to their basic pay.

Successful applicants will also be required to undertake and complete a Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression course. This enables staff to begin building the skills to de escalate service users in peaks of distress whilst maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment for all.

Main duties of the job

To carry out clinical practice within designated clinical areas, ensuring that high quality evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, interventions and evaluations for patients is provided.

This will include:

• Undertaking a comprehensive, person-centred, nursing assessment and prepare care plans in consultation with the service users to provide the best nursing care.
• Implementation of care and rehabilitation programme.
• Evaluation of effectiveness of care provided in partnership with users.
• Ability to implement research-based practice.
• Following successful completion of preceptorship, ability to supervise junior and unqualified staff.
• Ability to administer medicine within relevant Trust and legislative guidance e.g. NMC Standards for Medicines Management 2010 and the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
• Ability to undertake risk assessment and develop risk management strategies for individual clients; ICPA/SAP to people who present with mental health problems.