Continuity of Care Coordinator
Location: HMP Bronzefield
Salary: £30,082 per annum
Are you an experienced admin officer or data lead? Looking to make a change and give back?
The Forward Trust are a UK leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment services to offenders. We deliver treatment and recovery support - in prisons and in the community - which helps people move away from addiction and crime. These services provide a variety of support, including advice, counselling, group work and intensive treatment. At The Forward Trust we believe that all people who are addicted to or misusing substances should have access to support, which is effective in protecting their health, and motivating them to take steps towards their own recovery. Over 20 years of pursuing this mission, we have been successful in moving thousands of drug dependent offenders away from a lifestyle revolving around crime, and drug or alcohol dependence.
We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with 'Lived Experience' we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness.
The Forward Trust provide both clinical and psychosocial Substance Misuse Services across Surrey Prisons in partnership with NHS Trust healthcare providers. Each service operates a Health and Wellbeing framework taking a trauma informed and gender responsive approach to delivery of a wide variety of interventions and integrated pathways tailored to meet specific needs of each prison and individual service users.
What you will be doing
The Continuity of Care Coordinators will lead on embedding and driving continuity of care improvements within the Surrey Prisons, conducting data audits, liaising with local authorities to improve pathways of referrals and implementing continuity of care meetings with community substance misuse service providers to build relationships, review data and ensure clear channels of communication between the prison and the community are in place to support effective transition of care for service users.
- Conducting monthly release audits ensuring Service Users are appropriately discharged on NDTMS, and that any data errors are rectified.
- Conducting pre-release audits ensuring communication has been made with the community teams in preparation for release, ensuring alerts forms have been sent and that the community teams are aware of the individuals due for release.
- Engaging with key local authority community teams, ensuring joint working protocols are in place and signed, and ensuring our teams have up to date information on service offers.
- Establishing continuity of care forums and chairing relevant meetings, recording accurate minutes and actions where necessary
- Providing progress updates to managers and teams on continuity of care performance, sharing best practise etc.
- Being a SPOC for community prison in reach workers - supporting them to draw keys in establishments and overcoming any barriers identified in relation to conducting pre-release reviews.
- Leading on any regional NDTMS and other relevant audits as required.
- Supporting with coordinating any release fairs or events within the establishment.
- Regularly reviewing the continuity of care best practise framework, ensuring it remains up to date and reflects changes in guidance.
- Supporting the development of strong community partnerships that increase continuity of care outcomes
- Working closely in partnership with Health and Justice colleagues, NHSE and OHID playing a central role in the implementation of commissioning projects and initiatives to improve continuity of care
You will be based on site working as part of the substance misuse team at HMP/YOI Bronzefield located on Woodthorpe Road, Ashford TW15 3JZ.
The team have a broad skills mix and provide gender responsive, recovery-orientated 'Health and Wellbeing' Services to service users aged 18 across Surrey prisons. HMP & YOI Bronzefield is a dynamic and forward-thinking women's prison which accommodates a diverse and complex population of women from courts across the South of England. Services are designed to deliver clinical treatment, psychosocial interventions and accredited group programmes for those held in prison that are identified as having an alcohol or drug issues.
Whilst based mostly at Bronzefield, this role will work specifically across women's prions as part of the Surrey region, this will include HMP Downview and HMP Send. Travel between these sites will be required**.** (Reasonable travel expenses will be covered by the organisation).
What we offer
- Training opportunities and career development
- Flexible working
- Employee Wellbeing Days (3 x days in addition to annual leave entitlement)
- Electric Car Scheme
- Crisis Loan Scheme
- Acess to Blue Light Card
- Simply Health packages
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
- Contributory Pension Scheme - Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years' service and up to 9% thereafter
- Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
- Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.
- We reserve the right to close this vacancy early