Band 5 Staff Nurse - Salisbury
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role involves providing and supervising high standards of nursing care to service users, adhering to professional practice and AWP policies. Key duties include conducting person-centred nursing assessments, preparing care plans, implementing rehabilitation programs, and evaluating care effectiveness. The staff nurse will also administer medication, undertake risk assessments, and ensure compliance with relevant mental health legislation and trust guidelines. The position requires maintaining professional development and contributing to practice development activities.
Essential criteria
- RMN Pin Registration
- Other criteria
- Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.
- Skills and abilities
- Able to communicate effectively and efficiently with other members of the team
- Experience and knowledge
- Experience of effective risk assessment and management
- RMN Pin Registration
- Other criteria
- Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.
- Skills and abilities
- Able to communicate effectively and efficiently with other members of the team
- Experience and knowledge
- Experience of effective risk assessment and management
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 9d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 5 Staff Nurse - Salisbury
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
Objective:
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:
o Undertaking a comprehensive, person-centred, nursing assessment and prepare care plans in consultation with the service users to provide the best nursing care.
o Implementation of care and rehabilitation programme.
o Evaluation of effectiveness of care provided in partnership with users.
o Ability to implement research-based practice.
o Following successful completion of preceptorship, ability to supervise junior and unqualified staff.
o 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.
o Ability to undertake risk assessment and develop risk management strategies for individual clients; ICPA/SAP to people who present with mental health problems.
o Demonstrate a working knowledge of the key
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