Detailed job description and main 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.