The Healthcare Navigator role will provide care and support to those in the early days in custody with the aim to add significant value to their experience of the prisoner, prison staff in the initial days; reduce the risk of self-harm and suicide alongside wider impacts on families and friends.
This role will provide reassurance, guidance and signposting to health and social care services that will contribute to minimising distress and risk for those patients in their early days in custody.
• Offer a visible presence during their early days in custody and on the Induction Wing – therefore being accessible and available to all new receptions.
• Help to improve identification of risk factors during early days in custody.
• To be a bridge between HMPPS and the Healthcare providers to enable improvements in joint care.
• Address vulnerabilities associated with early days in custody inclusive of reducing self-harm.
• Improve Induction into establishments
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverserange of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. 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.
• Create greater awareness of healthcare and social care options and the range of services available.
• Support access to those services i.e. use of PODS, application process especially for people from diverse backgrounds or with specific needs
• Improve partnership working between services – particularly social care, Safer Custody teams.
• Improve engagement rates into healthcare and reduce did not attend appointments.
• Assist with improving patient choice regarding healthcare interventions.
• Further support social prescribing and promote and manage Health Champions.
• In conjunction with EPIC establish and run specific patient forums particularly relating to post ACCT.
• Input into complex case meetings.
• Be responsible for logging and making referrals
• To offer appropriate support and guidance to patients and their families/carers
• To plan / organise work using own initiative, whilst being able to work as a valuable member of a team.
• To have excellent IT skills, to include Microsoft Office, Outlook and Excel
• To undertake general office duties to support the role
• Provide coordination of and participate in relevant internal and external working groups and provide project advice, expertise and support where requested.
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Dec 2024
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