Band 5 Staff Nurse - Long Fox Unit

Employer Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Long Fox Unit

Town Weston Super Mare

Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum

Salary period Yearly

Closing 06/05/2025 23:59

Band 5 Staff Nurse - Long Fox Unit

Job overview

We have all been touched by dementia at some point in our lives. Here on Dune Ward, we go above and beyond to support those living with dementia. We work with service users and carers during a period of time when they need compassion, understanding and support.

In addition to supporting our service users, Dune Ward is passionate about the health and wellbeing of their staff and promoting a good work/life balance. Local clinical supervision is offered, and flexible working will be considered on request.

If you are passionate about dementia care and want to rediscover your passion for nursing, this is an opportunity you don’t want to miss. If you would like any additional information, or if you would like to visit the ward, then please contact the ward manager, Megan Williams, on 01934 836522.

Main duties of the job

You will be a registered nurse who is innovative, dynamic and enthusiastic with a passion for working with service users, relatives and other professionals to deliver the highest quality of care and continually working to improve the standards of care offered.

You will coordinate shifts and delegate jobs to staff appropriately. You will carry out medications rounds in line with trust policy. You will work with service users on a team and a 1-1 level to make them feel safe and comfortable during their admission.

You will be supported to gain expertise in Dementia Care through training and development. Dune Ward also offers a unique learning opportunity through its rolling training programme, involving bespoke and targeted learning every week all year round for the whole team. This covers topics in relation to physical health care, mental health care, older adult, dementia care and inpatient nursing skills.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.
• Regular provision of advice and mentoring to staff.
• Support the provision of an appropriate learning environment for pre and post-registered students, novice practitioners, and new team members as directed.

To maintain and develop professional knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure that practice reflects best practice, remains evidence based, is current and responsive to meet changing patient and NHS service needs, as outlined in the NHS Plan (2000).

To abide by the legal rules, statutory regulations and professional responsibilities relating to practice as outlined in the NMC's 'The Code': Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives.

To take responsibility for post-registration education and for continuing professional development as outlined in NMC Standards.

To receive clinical supervision in accordance with a contracted and regular basis from an identified Senior Practitioner, as per trust Clinical Supervision Policy.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RMN or RGN
• Completed specific dementia training

Knowledge

• Knowledge of inpatient medication rounds and safe administration/disposal
• Experience of care planning/risk assessment
• Experience of managing a shift
• Evidence of managing HCA's through supervision, shift coordination and delegation
• Has completed supervision training
• Demonstrate experience of risk assessment/management
• Able to reflect and give examples of practice.

Managing own stress

• Able to recognise and manage stress in themselves

Experience

• Keen interest in working with older adults
• Has an understanding of dementia
• Has worked with older adults on an inpatient ward
• Has completed training related to older adults/dementia care

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.

Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.