Job overview

By working in partnership with the ECT Team you will be part of a highly motivated team to continue to deliver an excellent service to patients and carers. You will provide clinical support to the ECT Team, working closely with all team members, sharing skills and information, viewing the clinic as one part of the continuum of care and facilitating opportunities for patients to benefit from, whilst maintaining and improving standards of practice in ECT.

Based at the ECT clinic at Green Lane hospital the team covers the 3 acute hospitals of Salisbury District Hospital, Royal United Hospital Bath and Great Western Hospital Swindon to provide treatment for those patients requiring ECT who are more complex regarding their physical health needs. When providing treatment to patients in the acute hospital you will work in the main theatres with their team, this means that you will gain a significant amount of knowledge and understanding of aspects of a person’s physical health and the impact this can have on their mental health.

Main duties of the job

An opportunity has arisen within Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust for a band 5 ECT  Practitioner based in Devizes, Wiltshire. 

The post is clinical, but has many different and very interesting aspects to it. An ECT practitioner draws on knowledge learned as an RMN but also has a range of knowledge and skills in physical health care. 

Wiltshire ECT team is a high achieving team having received an Excellence rating at ECTAS audits for the last 9 years.  The team regularly drives innovation and change at national level and we are influential in changes in ECT practice by having team members who sit on national boards. 

Previous work in an ECT clinic is not required as all training will be given on the job. A good understanding of NEWS is required, knowledge around physical health will be gained in this role.

The base is at Green Lane hospital, the covering of the clinics in the 3 district general hospitals is shared between team members, so being a car driver is required. Clinics usually start at 8am but occasionally due to delays in the district general hospitals you may be required to work beyond 4pm. The team currently does not provide a service on Bank holidays.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.  

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.