Band 6 Charge Nurse

Bluebell Unit offers a place of safety to adults and children brought in by police under Sections 135 or 136 of the Mental Health Act. Bluebell is a 24-hour, fast-paced, and dynamic service catering to the specific needs of a wide variety of presentations and personalities during times of crisis.

Communication plays a vital part in this role, and you will develop close links with multi-agency services throughout BSW, such as AMHP teams, safeguarding, street triage, on-call consultants, and police.

Bluebell Unit offers a unique opportunity to dual work within Poppy Unit, a 20-bedded acute inpatient unit, as well as the Place of Safety, ensuring a full and diverse career.

As a Band 6 Nurse, you will be expected to co-ordinate shifts, risk assess, demonstrate clinical leadership, and implement Quality Improvement projects, as well as act up into the Band 7 role in the absence of a Band
7. Skilled management and clinical work within Bluebell can be highly rewarding. You will receive regular supervision within the team.

Here at Bluebell, we are keen for you to develop within your role, and we offer new learning experiences and encourage training opportunities.

Additional training offered:

• Drug and alcohol awareness, linking in with Turning Point
• Motivational interviewing
• Trauma-informed care

To provide clear clinical leadership to Staff Nurses and Mental Health Assistants working on the ward, ensuring continuity of care for service users and full implementation of Trust policies. The post holder will 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, the post holder will also provide general management in the absence of the Ward Manager.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

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.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence‑based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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.

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 are provided.

This will include:

• Undertaking a comprehensive, patient‑focused nursing assessment and preparing care plans in consultation with the service user to provide the best nursing care.
• Carrying out clinical audits to evaluate and improve clinical services in partnership with service users.
• Administering medication within relevant Trust and legislative guidance (e.g., NMC Standards for Medicines Management 2010, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, MHA 1983) and ensuring others apply these standards to support safe practice.
• Demonstrating a working knowledge of the key elements of relevant Mental Health legislation.
• Being familiar with…