Inpatient Mental Health Nurse – Band 5

Band 5 Staff Nurse - Callington Road Hospital

Silver Birch is a 19-bed female acute ward, providing a safe and supportive environment for all recovery journey's. We know that coming to the hospital may feel challenging, and our team is here to help service users feel comfortable, informed, and well cared for throughout their stay. Our team of nurses, doctors, therapists, and support staff are here to provide high-quality individualised care tailored to specific and unique needs.

Your role of Staff Nurse would include working in a trauma informed way, with special considerations given to working with and supporting female specifics i.e. pregnancy, post natal menopause etc.

The band 5 staff nurse role is a key member of the in-patient multidisciplinary team. 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.

Helping to keep people safe through good risk assessment and good clinical practice.

Helping to develop coproduced plans of care, which are personalised and responsive to peoples needs.

Providing health promotion information to service users and carers.

Undertaking effective treatment supported and delivered in line with current legislation, standards and evidence based guidance.

Providing supervision and mentoring to other staff and students.

Being part of the AWP vision to provide high quality 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.

1. Clinical Nursing Practice

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 with service users, carers, colleagues and visitors. Provide and receive complex sensitive confidential information. Recognising the potential barriers to communication and practicing with empathy, reassurance and understanding. Undertaking comprehensive nursing assessments using analytical and judgement skills. 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 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. Providing specialist advice in relation to care to service users and where appropriate carers and families. Delivering a range of psychosocially-informed nursing therapies in accordance with service users care plans, needs and preferences.

Utilise opportunities to offer health promotion and education. Demonstrating developed nursing skills obtained through practice, understanding the importance of accuracy and a narrow margin for error. Demonstrating a commitment to reducing restrictive practice. Administering appropriate medication within relevant Trust and legislative guidance. Ensuring the ordering, storing and disposal of medication complies with relevant Trust and legislative guidance. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the key elements of the relevant Mental Health Legislation.

Collaboratively evaluating the impact and effectiveness of care and working to improve these outcomes. Supervising the practice of less experienced and newly qualified practitioners, student nurses or support worker colleagues.

2. Continuing Professional Development

To maintain and develop professional knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure best practice delivery including evidence based, current and responsive interventions in line with the changing needs of the service user and the service.

This will include:
Taking responsibility…