Band 6 Lead ECT Nurse
Part time 15 hours per week, Tuesday and Friday.
Are you an experienced registered clinician looking for a new opportunity to develop your clinical skills in the treatment of Electroconvulsive therapy? We are looking for a Band 6 Lead ECT Nurse to join our friendly ECT team in Stafford who is passionate, enthusiastic, and works well within a team ensuring quality evidenced-based care and interventions. Previous experience working in ECT is not essential but would be an advantage.
You will be responsible for supporting the ECT team by providing skilled and timely care to patients recovering from anaesthetic post ECT. As a lead, you will be expected to support professional development through clinical appraisal and supervision.
You will work alongside another ECT lead nurse and be responsible for the management of Band 5 nurses, ensuring appraisals, supervision, and management of absences are done in a timely manner.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Co-ordinate ECT clinic for both inpatient and community patients, working closely with family members and engaging with MDT teams.
2. Manage patient caseload in the ECT department and develop individual treatment plans and care plans, ensuring timely and accurate documentation.
3. Management of stock control, ordering of equipment, and ensuring medical devices are serviced.
4. Work within the MDT to develop quality improvements within the department and maintain ECTAS standards.
5. Attend training days specific to ECT.
Benefits:
1. Supporting your career development and progression.
2. Excellent NHS Pension scheme.
3. Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
4. Options for flexible working.
5. Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
6. Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
7. If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
8. Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
9. Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI, and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
10. Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
11. Free car parking at all trust sites.
12. Free flu vaccinations every year.
13. Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
14. And more.
We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
For further information about the role please contact Tracy Thomas (Quality Matron for Older Peoples Services) on. #J-18808-Ljbffr