Healthcare Navigator

Join Our Team as a Healthcare Navigator at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust!

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of others? Do you have skills for providing guidance and support in healthcare settings? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

As part of the Kent Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Healthcare Navigator to join our friendly team at HMP Elmley.

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 Primary Care Early Days in Custodyteam, 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 this post.

• Providing reassurance, guidance, and signposting to health and social care services to minimize distress and risk.
• Acting as a bridge between HMPSS and healthcare providers to improve joint care.
• Offering a visible presence in the First Night Centre/Induction Wing.
• Addressing vulnerabilities associated with early days in custody, including reducing self-harm.
• Supporting access to healthcare and social care services, especially for people from diverse backgrounds or with specific needs.
• Improving partnership working between services, particularly social care and Safer Custody teams.
• Assisting with improving patient choice regarding healthcare interventions and promoting Health Champions.

Join us at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and be part of a team that truly cares about making a positive impact. Apply today and help us improve people's lives!

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

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.

You will need to provide:

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

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK)…