Band 5 Staff Nurse - Salisbury

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health care organization in Salisbury is seeking a Registered Mental Health Nurse. You will work in a dynamic team on a 20-bedded later life ward, providing excellent care to service users with mental health needs. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and be adept at care planning, implementation, and evaluation. A focus on diversity and inclusion is emphasized, encouraging applicants from all backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Ability to care for patients holistically and adapt to changing situations.
• Demonstrate effectiveness in ensuring continuity of care and implementing trust policies.
• Following successful completion of preceptorship, ability to supervise junior and unqualified staff.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking comprehensive, person-centred nursing assessments and preparing care plans.
• Implementing care and rehabilitation programmes.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of care provided in partnership with users.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Shift coordination

Clinical nursing abilities

Risk assessment

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification

Job description

Would you like to work in a caring friendly environment and make a difference to people's lives? Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse looking for a change? If so we have fantastic opportunities for you.

We are looking for like-minded enthusiastic and dedicated Registered Mental Health nurses who share our visions and values.

Amblescroft North is a 20 bedded later life ward, this is an excellent opportunity to work with service users presenting with a range of mental health needs in crisis.

If you are successful you will be involved with a supportive and cohesive multi-disciplinary team caring for service users on an inpatient later life ward. You will care for your patients holistically, involving carers and relatives and work alongside medical and therapies staff. You will be able to adapt quickly to changing situations and provide high quality care to your patients.

You will have excellent communication skills, be able to demonstrate shift coordination and show competent nursing abilities within the clinical area to both registered and unregistered staff. You will be able to demonstrate effectiveness in ensuring continuity of care and implementation of trust policies.

Your responsibilities 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.
• Ability to undertake risk assessment and develop risk management strategies for individual clients.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the key elements of relevant mental Health Legislation.
• Ensure the ordering storage, administration and disposal of medication complies with relevant trust and legislative guidance.

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.