Band 5 Staff Nurse - Bristol

Job summary

Oakwood Ward is an all male acute ward for adults of working age, for service users experiencing an acute episode of mental illness. Working on Oakwood would give you a wealth of learning opportunities to develop new skills in working with service users from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures.

This 6 month post would give a Staff Nurse the opportunity to work in a different or new environment, in either a fixed term contract or secondment position if already working within AWP.

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our experienced and cohesive team. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality, evidence-based individualised and person centred care with the emphasis being on providing a therapeutic environment, allowing our service users a space for assessment, treatment and recovery.

All nursing staff are expected to work a mixture of shifts, consisting of earlies, lates, nights and weekends. All staff are expected to have undertaken or undertake RRI training and PERT.

Main duties of the job

Your role as a Band 5 Staff Nurse will include co-ordinating shifts, attending MDT meetings, completing medication rounds, supervising students and HCSW's. You will work closely with service users in the key working role, supporting both service users and their carers during their admission and discharge back in to the community.

We are keen to develop our Staff Nurses; you will receive relevant training and supervision, and have the opportunity to work with a wide Multi Disciplinary Team.

About us

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 provideHigh Quality, Compassionate Careeverywhere, 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.

Details

Date posted

13 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£32,073 to £39,043 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

342-BR110-0826

Job locations

Southmead Hospital

Southmead Road

Bristol

BS10 5NB

United Kingdom