and 6 Charge Nurse - Devizes

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK seeks a Band 6 Nurse for its Bluebell Unit. This role involves coordinating shifts, clinical leadership, and risk assessment while ensuring collaboration with various agencies. The successful candidate will have opportunities for training and career development within a supportive team. Additionally, experience in trauma-informed care and motivational interviewing is advantageous. The role promises a diverse and rewarding career path in a unique setting.

Benefits

Regular supervision

Training opportunities

Dual work experience

Qualifications

• Experience in coordinating shifts and demonstrating clinical leadership.
• Ability to implement Quality Improvement projects.
• Willingness to develop and participate in training opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate shifts and manage clinical responsibilities.
• Risk assess and provide clinical leadership.
• Act up into the Band 7 role when required.

Skills

Communication skills

Clinical leadership

Risk assessment

Quality improvement

Job description

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.

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
• Charge nurse training
• Understanding Autism
• Trauma‑informed care