Band 6 Charge Nurse - Hazel Unit, Callington Road Hospital, Bristol

Hazel unit is a 12 bedded, male, Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. It cares for service users within the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire areas.

The unit specialises in the clinical, short-term management of people who are in an acutely disturbed phase of a serious psychiatric illness and who cannot be safely managed in a general acute setting. We work closely with a gender specific acute unit on site, and are developing a service tailored to male service users.

The team is currently going through a number of changes, including newly built high care de-escalation suite alongside new management team now in post., The role will involve clinically leading and managing a team of staff nurses and healthcare assistants. Supporting the Ward Manager with some operational duties and help develop and maintain clinical standards.

Our team are looking for passionate, highly motivated, experienced registered nurses to work with and lead our team in continuing to develop our service, in line with National Minimum Standards for Psychiatric Intensive Care Services.

We expect at least 3 years post qualification and inpatient experience for applicants., The successful candidate will be RN-Mental Health or RN-Learning Disability trained, with significant experience in Psychiatric Intensive Care, Learning Disabilities/challenging behaviour, Acute Inpatient Nursing, Place of Safety, and or Crisis Home Treatment.

You will be able to demonstrate a capacity for clinical excellence, have a high level of emotional resilience, and be able to support the ward with developing and enhancing services.

We are keen to develop our nurses, so training opportunities will be available and supported. Rotational posts would also be considered to those wanting to experience working in different settings.

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.