The post holder is responsible for the management of the Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) suite and the co-ordination and delivery of ECT service, ensuring it meets accepted quality and safety standards in accordance with national and local guidelines. This will include working with all disciplines involved with ECT across the Trust and with external organizations.

To ensure compliance by self and staff of the Trust's Standing Orders, Standing Financial instructions, Policies, Procedures and Guidelines, including taking all reasonable steps to manage and promote a healthy working and anti-discrimination environment.

Main duties of the job

Provide leadership and expert clinical knowledge to ECT nurses on the development, organization, and evaluation of ECT Services within the Trust.

Act as an advisor on ECT and delivery of service both within the Trust and to external groups e.g. NALNECT and SIG groups.

Have operational responsibility for the ECT Department at Carol Foster Suite, ensuring the smooth running of the department with a high level of integration with other services and organisations when needed.

Treat the department as one part of the continuum of care and facilitate opportunities for patients to benefit from whilst maintaining and improving practice standards in ECT.

Maintain and develop close links with other professionals both internal and external to the Trust, consulting with other external departments to co-ordinate joint working in specific cases - i.e. the co-ordination of off-site treatment in the operating theatre in an acute Trust.

Be clinically responsible for the coordination and implementation of effective nursing care within all ECT departments. He/she will liaise with other professionals and with those providing support services

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

To undertake a yearly review of policies and procedures with the ECT team, ensuring any changes reflect current standards from ECTAS and Oxleas Trust.

To mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including nursing students, escorting staff and medical trainees.

To be responsible for the recruitment, deployment and management of staff within the ECT department.

To have an advanced understanding of the principles regarding informed consent and capacity, and its application to individual patient circumstances and clinical presentation.

To have knowledge of Mental Capacity Act within the wider context of Mental Health Care and to understand its use in relation to ECT.

To ensure that all aspects of Mental Health Act Legislation (with specific regards to consent to treatment issues) are adhered to in the administration of ECT to patients.

To be lead practitioner working to identify local and national ECT issues and work on delivering the clinical governance agendas as determined by the organizations.

To enhance the competences of the staff through an active and innovative ECT based training program.

To maintain the current internal audit mechanism UNDER THE STANDARDS OF ECTAS and Trust Policies.

Work collaboratively with staff involved in ECT administration and work to standardize competencies, practice, documentation, and any other issues identified by the ECT Lead Nurse and Manager.

To ensure that care is delivered using evidence-based practice

Person Specification

Application form,shortlisting and interview

Essential

• Education/Qualification

Desirable

• Leadership Course

Application form ,shortlisting and interview

Essential

• Experience

Desirable

• Post Registration Qualification

Application Form, shorrlisting and interview

Essential

• Skill/Abilities/Knowledge

Desirable

• Other Requirement

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

ECT Clinic

Hawthorns Unit, Queen Mary's Hospital

Sidcup

DA14 6LT

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