ECT Lead Nurse

Devon Partnership NHS Trust invites applications for an ECT Clinic Manager / Administering ECT Lead Nurse to join the Devon ECT Team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated nurse to provide clinical leadership within a specialist service delivering high-quality Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT).

The Devon ECT Team supports patients aged 18 years and above from across Devon, including individuals receiving care on our inpatient wards. The successful applicant will play a key role in ensuring safe, effective, and patient‑centred delivery of ECT in line with national guidance and best practice.

The main ECT clinic is based at Exmouth Hospital
, however treatments are, at times, offered within District General Hospitals across Devon
, requiring flexibility and the ability to travel as part of the role.

• To manage and provide operational oversight of the Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) service for Devon, excluding Plymouth, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high‑quality care.
• To act as the Lead ECT Nurse
  , delivering and coordinating ECT treatment for individuals requiring ECT, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
• To provide visible clinical leadership and day‑to‑day management of the ECT team, promoting high standards of professional practice and accountability.
• To support a positive learning culture within the team, encouraging continuous professional development, reflective practice, supervision and education.
• To develop and maintain effective working partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, including medical staff, inpatient services, community teams, anaesthetics and acute hospital services.
• To ensure care is delivered in line with national guidance, ECTAS standards, Trust policies and clinical governance frameworks.
• To promote person‑centred care, working in partnership with people using the service, their carers and families, ensuring dignity, consent, and involvement in care and treatment decisions.
• To contribute to service development, quality improvement, audit and evaluation to enhance patient outcomes and service effectiveness.

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience – we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile;

making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

• To manage the ECT service for Devon excluding Plymouth
• To administer ECT without direct supervision.
• To provide leadership and management to the clinical team.
• To provide evidence‑based professional support and advice to the multidisciplinary team.
• To lead and promote education and staff development for the continued professional growth of the team members and students.
• To ensure the delivery of high standards of nursing care within ECT in accordance with evidence‑based professional practice, policies and procedures.
• Ensure…