Custodial Flow Co-ordinator | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 pa |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Yelverton, PL20 6RR |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6202138/277-6202138-DART |
Summary
Are you ready tounlockyour potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want toescapeyour current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time tobreakintooffender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking foracompassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Custodial Flow Co-ordinatorand patient experience leadto join our friendly team atHMP Dartmoor.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of ourhealthcareteam, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
As a Custodial Flow-Co-ordinator you will be providing safe and effective care pathways for all offenders identified for transfer to external NHS or independent in-patient services. Excellent communication skills are vital for this post as you will be acting as the link between external providers, clinical staff within healthcare and the prison staff.
In your role, you will be responsible for timely referrals, tracking the progress of these referrals and ensuring you maintain accurate and timely transfer activity/date on our electronic data tracker system. Whilst individuals are with an external provider, you will act as the point of contact to ensure the smooth flow of exchange of information between all stakeholders.
You will be required to work closely with the prison team to ensure the safe return of the individual and continuity of care arrangements with the prison and healthcare staff.
With the patient engagement lead we strive to make healthcare the best it can therefore learning, engaging and understanding our populations perceptions is critical.
Wondering what it's like to work within Offender Healthcare?
Working in a prison can be a rewarding, yet sometimes challenging career in an environment like no other. As healthcare we have a duty of care to every patient and we strive to deliver safe and effective care to each individual.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.
Our healthcare departments operate across three prisons in the Devon cluster each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:
• HMP Channings Wood – Cat C – Population = 731
• HMP Dartmoor – Cat C – Population = 659
• HMP Exeter – Cat B (Remand) – Population = 412
Oxleas are the lead provider across 10 South West prisons and operate in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset in addition to the above.
Our wider services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• Develop and maintain effective channels of communication, professional links and interfaces with NHS and independent providers, statutory agencies, the third sector and the Prison Service.
• Work closely with these agencies to achieve joint working and integrated care arrangements.
• Support senior staff in the development of plans for the achievement of clinical excellence and demonstrate high standards of clinical practice to the team.
• As required attend case conferences, clinical reviews and CPA’s.
• As required attend and/or minute other meetings and forums as directed.
• Ensure that all relevant clinical information is documented accurately and in a timely fashion onto SystmOne.
• To deputise for the Administration supervisor supporting the administration team and assisting with administration tasks when and where required.
• Maintain basic knowledge of legislative procedures governing care and treatment of mentally disordered offenders.
• Comprehensive knowledge of local and national policies in relation to patient confidentiality, Caldicott principles, Child and Adult safeguarding procedures and Vulnerable Adult’s Policy.
This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024
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