Hmp Woodhill

HMP Woodhill is a category A/B prison comprising of five residential wings (including a stabilisation unit), a segregation unit, clinical assessment unit, the close supervision centre and reception area. Each area has a group of dedicated healthcare staff committed to improving services and delivery of healthcare to prisoners with a range of complex health problems and diverse ethnic backgrounds.

The Addictions Team helps people in HMP Woodhill who want to break a cycle of addiction to substances such as heroin, club drugs, other types of stimulants or long-term alcohol addiction. It represents the bringing together of a variety of services under one roof to provide a better service to service users. We offer a variety of psychosocial and clinical interventions to support clients throughout their journey in custody, starting from their arrival into prison and through to their release.

Part time hours would be considered

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of an integrated substance misuse service combining the elements of education, prevention, treatment and recovery within a prison environment. We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated and organised Band 3 Administrator to complement our Addictions Team.

The post holder should be ready for a new challenge, demonstrate good communication skills and work collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team. You should have experience of administrative tasks, including minute taking, managing databases, data analysis.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings
- To provide general administrative support where needed across the Addictions service.
- Responsible for the distribution of post received, ensuring that all correspondence is distributed appropriately and accurately.
- Management of local databases and uploading to national systems, e.g. NDTMS.
- Deal with telephone enquiries, acting as first point of contact for the prison and external agencies, and respond accordingly.
- Ensure information received from other agencies is processed in a timely and confidential manner.
- Produce the daily patient movements list (PMMS).
- Respond to requests for information within set timescales and in line with local processes.
- Scanning and filing to patient records as required.
- Stock management, including ordering of medical and non-medical items.
- To provide statistical information and produce reports as needed.
- To ensure that all local and Addictions service administration systems are followed.
- To demonstrate responsible time management.
- To participate in multi-disciplinary meetings, both on-site and in the community relating to client management.
- To develop close links with Primary Care Services and other local partner agencies as required.
- To liaise and communicate clinical information with partner agencies within the strict guidelines/ protocol of shared confidential information between Addictions and the named partner agencies.
- To contribute to the promotion of Team cohesiveness, multidisciplinary working and to work collaboratively at all times with both internal and external colleagues, to achieve healthy and effective communication.