Band 6 Charge Nurse - Southmead Hospital, Bristol

We are looking for an experienced nurse with a passion for providing a standard of care that can really change people's lives, just when life has become its most challenging. We welcome registered nurses with the resilience, determination and commitment to keep delivering the inpatient care that our service users deserve. Joining us as a Charge Nurse, You will need to be a clinician with a passion for working to get the best out of other staff and leading a team.This secondment will be an opportunity for development of skills and leadership qualities. You will be confident and good at taking the initiative. You will provide reassurance to your team members and be able to provide advice or know where to find it.,

• To provide, and supervise the delivery of high standards of nursing care to service users, in accordance with up-to-date evidence-based professional practice and AWP policies.
• To provide clear clinical leadership to Staff Nurses and Health Care Assistants working on the ward.
• Ensure the continuity of care for service users and full implementation of Trust policies.
• To supervise Band 5 staff and below in developing, implementing and assessing individual programmes of care. An integral part of the role is to undertake appraisals, clinical supervision and teaching.
• Responsible for specific "management duties" within the ward, which are commensurate with their grade, you will be expected to provide general management in the absence of the Ward Manager.
  
  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.