Job overview
Bluebell Unit offers a place of safety to adults and children brought in by police on S135 or S136 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 whilst in crisis.
Communication plays a vital role within 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.
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 includes:
* Drug and alcohol, linking in with Turning Point.
* Motivational interviewing.
* Charge nurse training.
* Understanding Autism.
* Trauma-informed care.
Bluebell offers a unique preceptorship opportunity to dual work within Bluebell Place of Safety and Poppy Unit, a 20-bedded acute inpatient unit, to ensure a full and diverse start to your nursing career.
Main duties of the job
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, person-centred nursing assessment and preparing care plans in consultation with service users to provide the best nursing care.
* Implementation of care and rehabilitation programmes.
* Evaluation of the effectiveness of care provided in partnership with users.
* Ability to implement research-based practice.
* Following successful completion of preceptorship, ability to supervise junior and unqualified staff.
* 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.
* Ability to undertake risk assessment and develop risk management strategies for individual clients; ICPA/SAP to people who present with mental health problems.
* Demonstrate a working knowledge of the key elements of relevant mental health legislation.
* Ensure the ordering, storage, administration, and disposal of medication comply with relevant trust and legislative guidance, e.g., NMC Standards for Medicines Management 2010, Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and MHA (1983).
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