Custodial Flow Coordinator | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Newton Abbot; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organization is seeking a Custodial Flow Coordinator to ensure quality healthcare for prisoners in the UK. This role involves coordinating transfers between prison and external NHS services while maintaining effective care pathways. Candidates must be willing to undergo National Security Vetting and provide necessary documentation, including ID and proof of right to work. The position aims to foster efficient and timely healthcare transitions for offenders, contributing to better health outcomes.

Benefits

NHS employment benefits

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting.
• Proof of right to work documentation is required.
• A Police Certificate may be needed for certain applicants.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality healthcare to those incarcerated in prisons.
• Act as the link between external providers and prison teams.
• Ensure coordinated and timely transfers in accordance with national time scales.

Job description

Overview

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients' future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

As part of our healthcareteam, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for post.

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
• See Job Description & Person Specification for further information.

Responsibilities

The post holder will work as a Custodial Flow Coordinator to provide quality healthcare to those incarcerated in prisons. Your primary job role will be to provide safe and effective care pathways for all offenders identified for transfer to external NHS or independent in-patient services. You will be working alongside the prison clinical team, and will act as the link between external providers and the prison teams to ensure a co-ordinated approach to transfer planning, which results in effective and timely transfers in accordance with national time scales (e.g. 14 days for mental health transfers).

Qualifications

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

Document Requirements

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
• Proof of address documentation

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History: 5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

Note: This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025.