Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Bluesci |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Donna Carter – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role |
Service Manager – Donna Carter |
| Placement Address | 54-56 Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, M16 0LN |
| Placement City/Town: | Trafford |
| Placement Phone | 07516008838 |
| Placement Web Site | bluesci.org.uk |
| Your University Contact: | Sam Roper – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Students will be allocated an assessor on arriving and will have a local induction.
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
TBC
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Shift Notes:
Week days 7pm – 2am
Weekend 5pm – 2am
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
We accept referrals from 7pm until 12.30am from adults in Trafford experiencing emotional distress. Community members attend Bluesci@Night for brief interventions and signposting to social prescriptions that may help with their mental health and wellbeing.
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Living Well Model
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Supporting with the management of emotional distress
Mindfulness
Problem solving
Distress tolerance
Talking therapy
Signposting
Social prescriptions
What resources are available to help students learning?
Access to four Bluesci centres, two of which are library based.
Collaborative working with our third sector partners
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
There is ongoing research taking place at our Coppice site
Spoke Placements
HBTT, Coppice, Broomwood, Partington Centres, Primary Care and Wellbeing Service, linking up with primary care networks and other third sector organisations in Trafford