Care Co-ordinator

We’re looking to recruit a highly motivated, experienced registered nurse to join our team in HMP/YOI ISIS. The post holder will manage, lead and co-ordinate the Early days in custody model within HMP/YOI ISIS. Will provide safe and effective care pathways for all prisoners identified through the single point of assessment as needing care co-ordination for their first 14 days in custody. Will initiate and implement strategies focused strongly on reducing health inequalities ensuring excellence in health prevention, promotion and planning

The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy, have an ability to reach complex and critical judgements and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job.

The post holder will work with others and support research and evaluation in line with Trust Strategy to improve the quality and clinical effectiveness of nursing strategies. They will contribute to the clinical governance agenda by promoting evidence based practice.

Working hours are Monday to Friday 8.00am to 4.00pm.

The successful post holder will be required to pass all pre-employment checks including prison security clearance.

Oxleas NHS Trust operates a Probationary Period, further details are available on request.

Overview of the post
- To manage, lead and co-ordinate the implementation of the early days in custody model within HMP/YOI ISIS.
- To provide and develop a specialised programme of care, or care packages in HMP/YOI ISIS prison that will address the prisoner’s presenting vulnerabilities
- Mental health needs
- Substance misuse needs
- Trauma management ( history of abuse/gangs)
- Physical healthcare needs
- To provide safe and effective care pathways for all prisoners identified through the early days in custody assessments as needing care co-ordination.

Oxleas - About Us

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
- Being an effective clinical leader and role model, with good delegation and supervisory abilities.
- Identifying clinical need, prioritising and deploying resources, within budgetary parameters.
- Being an effective communicator, observer & listener.
- Maintaining patient confidentiality at all times.
- Ensuring that all organisational, policies, procedures and guidelines are adhered to as well as contributing to the development of local ones.
- Ensuring good teamwork and working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and the public.
- Ensuring that regular clinical supervision is used to reflect upon and modify own and others practice.
- Ensuring that own practice and that of junior staff remains within legal, ethical and professional parameters and is open to scrutiny from peers.
- Ensure the provision of contemporary evidence based challenging behaviour services.
- Promote and develop communication systems which enable staff to work in a person centred way with service users.
- Lead and facilitate the adoption of a person-centred holistic approach to service user’s assessment and care planning using contemporary models of
- To lead on involving service users in these processes.
- Ensure the principles of Valuing People, Challenging Behaviour: A Unified Approach, Transforming Care Programme (Winterbourne View) and relevant NICE guidance are embedded in practice.
- Ensuring Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults policy is understood and adhered to and that issues are reported appropriately within set timeframes
- Must hold a current, valid first level registration with the Nurses & Midwives C