Health & Wellbeing Coordinator

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

To manage, lead and co-ordinate the implementation of the health and wellbeing model within the Kent of Prisons. (model attached).
To provide and develop a specialised programme of care, or care packages in the Kent Prison Cluster that will address the prisoner’s presenting vulnerabilities:
Primary care needs and long-term conditions
Mental health needs
Substance misuse
To provide safe and effective care pathways for all offenders identified through the single point of assessment as needing care co-ordination.
Working alongside the responsible prison clinical team, the post-holder will arrange and organise meetings that will support the health and wellbeing model. These meetings include multidisciplinary meetings, case conferences, referral/discharges, and monthly monitoring meetings.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
Provide co-ordination of and participate in the health and wellbeing working group and provide expertise and support where requested.
Maintain accurate and timely care co-ordination activity, information, and data on an electronic data tracker system.
The data collected must identify all prisoners that are being care ordinated. The referrals made to each department based on the needs of the patient should be recorded.
Monitoring the response of each service should be captured and challenged appropriately and sensitively based on the clinical need of the patient.
Be responsible for monitoring the care co-ordination of offenders including referrals to internal and external healthcare services.
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

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