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Job overview
Interventional Psychiatry Service in Oxford are looking for a highly motivated skilled flexible nurse to join the team caring for patients receiving Electro-convulsive Therapy (ECT) and / or Ketamine Therapy.
The service currently provides:
The Interventional Psychiatry Service continues to develop and expand.
The Interventional Psychiatry suite is based at the Warneford Hospital.
The successful applicant will be working alongside the IPS Lead Nurse, IPS consultant, anaesthetic team, wards, community staff as well as patients and carers to ensure that patients receive an excellent standard of care.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, driven and flexible team player, with excellent communication and organizational skills to join our friendly team.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this post is to deliver high quality care for named patients receiving low dose intravenous Ketamine treatment for treatment resistant depression in line with local policy, and ECT consistent with local policy and the ECT accreditation service (ECTAS) guidelines
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will take a lead role in co-ordinating and organising as well as recruiting, screening, assessing, implementing and evaluating patients and their treatment plans for Ketamine. Also, working as part of the ECT nursing team and contributing to the development and maintenance of ECTAS standards.
IPS Senior Staff Nurse will be responsible for the safe administration of Ketamine and ECT under the direction of the IPS doctors and aneasthetic team.
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