Band 5 Staff Nurse - Bristol

Job summary

Lime Unit is an all male acute mental health unit looking for NMC registered mental health nurses trained in Psychiatry.Lime Unit will support and encourage you to be the best you can be in your role.

We want staff with commitment to the acute inpatient setting who want to work along side patients in crisis and aid them with recovery.

Main duties of the job

Support and maintain a therapeutic environment.

Manage shifts and keep a safe working environment for both patients and staff. Work in a flexible way, including early, late and night shifts, weekends and bank holidays.

Be able to respond to physical aggression and verbal aggression have resilience and de-escalation skills.

Work in a MDT team have confidence and ability to participate in meetings.

Acting as a keyworker to allocated patients.

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 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.

Details

Date posted

08 September 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£32,073 to £39,043 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

342-BR132-0926

Job locations

Lime Unit, Callington road

Callington Road

Bristol

BS45BJ

United Kingdom