ECT Manager

NHS; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking an ECT Manager to oversee a well-established ECT service. The role involves providing senior clinical support, ensuring compliance with ECTAS Standards, and leading clinical audits. The ideal candidate will have NMC registration, experience in acute mental health settings, and strong clinical reasoning skills. This position offers a salary range of £47,810 to £54,710 annually, pro rata.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Yearly appraisal and ongoing training

Good maternity and paternity benefits

Health service discounts

Qualifications

• Must have NMC registration.
• Experience in acute mental health settings is essential.
• Strong knowledge of ECT and related policies.

Responsibilities

• Manage ECT services, ensuring clinical compliance.
• Support team development and skill maintenance.
• Lead clinical audits and research activities.

Skills

Clinical reasoning skills

Risk assessment

Team leadership

Communication

Education

NMC registration

ILS trained

Job description

To manage a well established ECT service, including providing senior clinical support and guidance to the ECT team and wider teams.You will also provide direct clinical care as the ECT Manager in line with ECTAS Standards, as well as identifying and taking the lead in developing clinical audit and research activity and ensuring effective process for clinical compliance checks are embedded within the clinical area.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure that the SLA is delivered and reviewed in line with ECTAS Standards.
• Ensure Trust policies, procedures and legislative directives relevant to ECT Dept are robustly implemented.
• Support the development of the skills and knowledge of your team in order to maintain the competency level of the whole team, including skills analysis to inform the training plan.
• Ensure that awareness of clinical and resource management information is used analytically to inform decisions that meet service user, team and organisational objectives.
• Take the lead in implementing or supporting clinical and non-clinical risk management systems.
• Implementation of regular team meetings and patient /carer feedback.
• Challenge poor and unsafe practice, taking appropriate action to address substandard performance in a timely manner.
• Uphold and implement HR policy and procedure to ensure safety, effectiveness and high standards of care.
• Support the overall Trust vision and strategic implementation within your defined area of responsibility ensuring that clear communication within teams enables them to understand their supporting role.
• Ensure robust and effective roster management.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."

Benefits include:

Commitment to flexible working where this is possible

27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service

Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training

Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits

Health service discounts and online benefits

Incremental pay progression

Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7

Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

Clinical and Quality Assurance

Provide senior clinical support and guidance to the ECT team and wider team. Provide direct clinical care as ECT service Manager in line with ECTAS Standards. Identify and take the lead in developing clinical audit and research activity, ensuring effective process for clinical compliance checks are embedded within the clinical area. Lead on delivering the clinical quality agenda as defined by the Trust. Imbed best practice through feedback from compliments, complaints and concerns. Promote a multidisciplinary approach in incident analysis, ensuring that clinical meetings are appropriately multi-disciplinary, and sharing wider learning as appropriate. To be aware of National Policy Guidance specifically related to emerging and established best practice in delivering an evidence-based service.

Professional Accountability

Ensure care is delivered to incorporate health and social care pathway. Ensure care is delivered in a person-centred manner. Ensure that people in our care, carers / significant others are included in the planning implementation delivery and evaluation of care. Support the interests of people in our care, in complex situations using professional knowledge, judgements and skills to enable you to account for the decisions you make and the clinical leadership you provide for others.

Leadership

Ensure the promotion of good practice, prevention of poor practice and proactive intervention of unacceptable practice. Ensure good communication systems are in place within the clinical area that support and enhance high quality care (IT, verbal, inter-personal, written). Support any change management process. Proactively manage conflict with a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring the needs of people in our care are maintained and always treated as a priority, Facilitate and support the development of strategic thinking skills, promoting an umbrella view of clinical situations for the multi-disciplinary team. Ensure a learning the lessons culture by cultivating a reflective practice environment learning from untoward incidents and investigation.

Practice / Professional Development

Ensure participation in regular appraisal and identification of development needs. Ensure regular clinical and managerial supervision for self. Ensure regular opportunities to develop your own clinical / professional practice are optimised considering service needs and best practice evidence. Maintain a professional portfolio as evidence for revalidation. Develop and maintain effective networks locally and nationally to share and inform best practice.

Other issues

The job description will be reviewed annually with the post holder; altercations will only be made after consultation and agreement. The post holder may be asked to undertake duties not directly highlighted within this job description. This will only be done when the skills and experience of the post holder meet the requirements of the role.

Speciality Specific Requirements

Raise the profile of the acute mental health care speciality and ensure a clear understanding of the acute care pathway, and particularly the use of ECT as a valid treatment option. Demonstrate a clear awareness of the ECT care pathway and ensure this is adhered to and disseminated in a constructive and effective way to colleagues working both within and outside of the ECT Dept. Complete training relevant to the ECT role as per ECTAS Standards Ability to implement assessment and formulation skills to inform person centred care plans with the full involvement of people in our care. Development of clear nursing identity and roles within the multi-disciplinary team. Therapeutic intervention and engagement skills. Ability to carry out specialist assessments in line with professional frameworks and standards set for ECT. Understand the role of the Anaesthetist, ODP and Recovery Nurse partnership working. Membership of NALNECT and Regional SIG meeting. Ensure a high level of competence in assessment and management of clinical and physical health risk Ensure that the clinical environment is conducive to positive risk taking and that proportionate safeguards. Work in collaboration with Lead Consultant Psychiatrist and Lead Anaesthetist in ensuring safe administration of anaesthetic and ECT treatment. Ensure all staff receive training on the use of legal frameworks such as MHA and Mental capacity Act / Consent Ensure patients capacity is in line with the Consent and Legal Framework. To complete ECTAS ECT Foundation ECT course within a year of appointment to role and to ensure Competencies in ECT are maintained and up to date as per ECTAS Standards.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Must have NMC registration
• Trained in ILS

Experience

• Experience of working with acute mental health settings
• A strong knowledge of ECT, associated policies and guidance including national guidance
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills and ability to conduct risk assessments

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum, pro rata