Reconnect Transitional Worker

**About The Role**:
**Have you thought about working within prison healthcare?**

Prisons are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work - if you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this is it

As a Reconnect Transitional worker you will work alongside the discharge and transfer team and the RECONNECT service to ensure that the needs of the patients are met for either their release or transfer to another establishment.

Your role will consist of working collaboratively with the patient and other agencies to support a safe transition of care from custody to community. Manage the assessment of health needs, planning, delivery and evaluation of care, for the prison population, including clinical risk assessment. Manage key risks associated with resettlement in the prison population such as:

- Disengagement/apathy towards recovery due to length of stay in the justice system.
- Anxiety related to housing, relationships and financial concerns.
- Newly sentenced, resulting in increased suicide /self-harm risk
- Detoxing on transfer
- Mental illness
- Poorly managed challenging behaviours.
- Register individuals with a local GP.

For complex releases you will provide support in the community, helping support their needs for hospital/ GP registrations/ appointments.

You will attend the complex case release meeting which is a multiple disciplinary meeting that includes representatives from safer custody, healthcare and external services.

**About You**:
**How will we support you?**
- Bespoke induction
- Competency framework
- Regional and national career development opportunities
- Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
- Support from the wider team

You’ll receive an annual salary up to £30,000 per annum - dependent on experience. We offer a whole host of additional benefits such as: cycle to work scheme, free DBS check, free uniform, an extensive training and development structure for all employees along with an employee recognition scheme.

**It doesn’t stop there**

We also offer a company pension scheme which we as Practice Plus Group also pay into, 25 days annual leave increasing with service up to 28 days per year, plus 8 public bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time), NHS blue light card, discounted Costco memberships, access to Boundless memberships for attractions and parks, shopping discounts, free eye tests for computer screen users, an 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it.

**About Us**:
Prisons are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you are looking for a role where you can develop your existing skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this is it

Practice Plus Group is a specialist provider of NHS services into prison healthcare across over 45 different prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We believe in putting the patient first, regardless of the environment or their history. The prison population is one of the most vulnerable and challenged patient groups in society and the delivery of their health care is conducted within often difficult and demanding environments.

Practice Plus Group’s mission is **Access to Excellence**. Our core values are;
- we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated,
- we act with integrity
- we embrace diversity
- we strive to do things better together.
- Patients can only access excellence if we commit to living our values in everything we do when we’re at work.

If you share these values and have transferable skills we want to meet you