Job summary
- Main area
- Offender Healthcare
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (pa pro rata)
- Job ref
- 277-7596340-CHAN
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Channings Wood
- Town
- Newton Abbot
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Custodial Flow Coordinator
Band 4
Job overview
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 our healthcare team, 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.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as a Custodial Flow Coordinator to provide quality healthcare to those incarcerated in prisons.
Your primary job role will be to provide safe and effective care pathways for all offenders identified for transfer to external NHS or independent in-patient services.
You will be working alongside the prison clinical team, and will act as the link between external providers and the prison teams to ensure a co-ordinated approach to transfer planning, which results in effective and timely transfers in accordance with national time scales (e.g. 14 days for mental health transfers).
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our 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 multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. 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. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. 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. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Maintain accurate and timely transfer activity, information and data on the electronic data tracker system
- Be responsible for timely referrals to external providers
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Be responsible for tracking the progress of all referral
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Promote timely medical and nursing assessments by external providers
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Maintain close links with the Ministry of Justice to ensure timely transfers
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Throughout the duration of an offenders stay in external services the post holder will act as a point of contact to ensure the smooth flow and exchange of information and attend all relevant forums relating to the offender
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Promote timely return to prison
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Contribute to service developments and plans aimed at improving and developing services.
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To provide timely data and reports as directed on offender transfer activity
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Support the development of prison-based care to minimise length of hospital admission and promote site based interventions.
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Maintain oversight of the escort and discharge database for each site.
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Report all disputes and delays to management in a timely fashion
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Ensure that appropriate systems are in place, which enable and facilitate the effective Care Programme Approach, care coordination and continuity of car
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Support senior staff in the development of plans for the achievement of clinical excellence and demonstrate high standards of clinical practice to the team.
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As required attend case conferences, clinical reviews and CPA’s.
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As required attend and/or minute other meetings and forums as directed.
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Ensure that all relevant clinical information is documented accurately and in a timely fashion onto SystmOne.
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Maintain basic knowledge of legislative procedures governing care and treatment of mentally disordered offenders.
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Comprehensive knowledge of local and national policies in relation to patient confidentiality, Caldicott principles, Child and Adult safeguarding procedures and Vulnerable Adult’s Policy,
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).
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GSCE Level or equivalent
- NVQ L3 or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of leading and working within multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience of Prison Health Care.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic knowledge of the Care Programme Approach (CPA)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate proficiently at all
- Ability to work to tight deadlines.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ann Woolway
- Job title
- Head of Healthcare
- Email address
- [email protected]
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