Band 5 Staff Nurse - Hillview Lodge, Bath
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
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Job summary
Due to a recent review of Safer Staffing Levels for Sycamore ward, we are looking for highly motivated registered mental health nurses to join the experienced friendly team here in Bath, on our adults of working age admission and treatment ward.
Sycamore Ward is situated within the building of Hillview Lodge, which in turn is situated in the Grounds of The Royal United Hospital. Sycamore Ward is currently piloting a 15 bedded all female ward however, this will return to a mixed gender ward in the very near future. Sycamore ward offers care to service users with a serious mental illness who are in crisis.
The Sycamore team focus is on improving standards of care and developing the inpatient service in conjunction with the existing wider service and Multi-Disciplinary team. As such, we are looking for a Registered Nurse at Band 5. We welcome applications from newly qualified registered nurses, experienced nurses and those students that will be soon to qualify in the next year. We have an excellent preceptor package to support newly qualified nurses.
Main duties of the job
We work alongside BANES Intensive support team, BANES Recovery support team, BANES Early Intervention team , who are all based on site. We have a very good working relationship with these teams, which assists in optimizing the service user's care pathway.We have an established culture of inter-team working which offers people who work on the site diverse experience and learning opportunities.We are also very proud of our service user involvement in the development of our services.We have a service user involvement worker who promotes involvement at every level of our service provision. We welcome service users and carers to help shape the services, and bring a positive dimension to ward environment.We work along side St Mungo's Charity, and have a very active move-on worker on the ward from St Mungo's. This role helps service users with benefits and housing. The ward can also access support from the St Mungo's peer mentor service which can offer a short term wrap round service at the point of discharge.Alongside this, you will be working on shifts with occupational therapists. This has been a successful innovation and incidences of aggression has decreased as a result of increased occupation and therapeutic activity. As a team, we are also proud to promote Safe wards for all on the ward, and have an activity worker that promotes engagement with the service users through mutual help meetings, and activities both on and off the ward.
About us
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.
Date posted
23 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
342-BNS058-0523
Job locations
Sycamore Ward. Hillview Lodge
Combe Park
Bath
BA1 3NG
Employer details
Employer name
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Sycamore Ward. Hillview Lodge
Combe Park
Bath
BA1 3NG
Employer's website
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