Band 5 Staff Nurse - Bath
Bath, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 week ago
Cedar Ward is an acclaimed 12 bedded dementia assessment unit at Hillview Lodge, Bath. We are seeking a motivated, reliable and enthusiastic Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our tight knit team to support caring for patients with dementia from across the AWP footprint.
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
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ben Amor Job title: Ward manager Email address: benamor@nhs.net Telephone number: 01225 675196
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.
- 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 e.g. NMC Standards for Medicines Management 2010,Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and MHA (1983).
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ben Amor Job title: Ward manager Email address: benamor@nhs.net Telephone number: 01225 675196
