Early Days in Custody (EDiC) Practitioner

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

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Registered Mental Health Nurse to join the Early Days in Custody Team at HMP Elmley. This role involves supporting newly incarcerated individuals, conducting assessments, and creating comprehensive care plans to address their health and mental well-being. Ideal candidates will possess a valid Nursing qualification and have experience in mental health care.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health nursing.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong communication skills with patients and families.

Responsibilities

• Support new prisoners in accessing healthcare services.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and create care plans.
• Administer medication and update patient records.

Skills

Clinical curiosity

Risk assessment

Care planning

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a registered mental health nurse to join our Early Days in Custody Team (EDiC) at HMP Elmley. The EDiC team will act with the following principles: Holistic - the EDiC team is multi-disciplinary, drawing on expertise from the other teams within healthcare to provide a knowledgeable and skilled service with the ability to draw upon specialist input rapidly when needed. Curious - the EDiC team will engage with patients with clinical curiosity - drawing on all the information available to them to understand patient needs. The team will engage where possible with patients' families/carers to fully understand patient's needs and assist in helping maintain family relationships. Prioritising Safety - Keep prisoners safe by identifying and addressing immediate risks for that patient including self-harm, risk of death by suicide, and unmanaged substance misuse dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that new prisoners are supported during their first 14 days in the prison to access relevant healthcare offers and manage their general health and wellbeing whilst in prison.
• Identify the wider needs of patients, through the completion of a comprehensive assessment and working in partnership with them to co-produce a written care plan that addresses their health and social care needs.
• The role will include covering some work for the mental health in-reach team. For example:
• Care planning
• Caseload reviews
• Administer antipsychotic depot medication.
• Collect and synthesize all relevant clinical history to ensure safety, continuity of care and minimal re-assessments for the patient and ensuring that the records held for patients are up to date and accurate.
• Ensure ongoing care for every person requiring it, with clear pathway management in place that is understood by the patient and their families /significant others.
• Information is shared where appropriate and consent has been given to ensure that care plans and risks for patients are widely understood by all staff supporting them, including HMPPS staff where appropriate. This will be done with full patient consent.

About Oxleas and our network

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