Band 5 Staff Nurse - Bristol
Bradley Brook is 8 bedded specialist admission and Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) ward within Fromeside Medium Secure Unit, providing assessment, treatment and recovery-focused care for men with complex mental health needs in a secure environment. The ward delivers high-quality, evidence-based care within a multidisciplinary setting, supporting service users through their recovery journey while maintaining safety, dignity and therapeutic engagement.
Why join us?
- Work within a specialist medium secure forensic service.
- Develop skills in assessment, risk management and recovery-focused practice.
- Be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.
- Access ongoing training, supervision and career development opportunities.
- Contribute to delivering high-quality care that positively impacts the lives of service users.
We are recruiting 2 Full Time Substantive and 1 Full Time 12 month Secondment Band 5 Staff Nurse
Role
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
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
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: Olivia Owusu Antwi Job title: Ward Manager Email address: olivia.owusu-antwi1@nhs.net Telephone number: 0117 378 4299
Ward manager works Monday to Thursday.
