Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse - Bristol (South Glos)

This is Band 6 post has been newly created to provide increased capacity for assessments of new referrals to the team, at a time of increasing demand. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work with service users presenting with a variety of mental health conditions including organic and functional. As part of an experienced, skilled and supportive multi-disciplinary team the post holder will be acting as Key Worker to deliver evidence based interventions to service users and support to carers., To facilitate the delivery of personalised care and support planning in line with 'Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan.

To provide personalised interventions to support people in Later Life with mental health difficulties.

To act as a Key Worker for people for whom you are delivering interventions.

To deliver a range of activities and interventions to support carers.

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.