About this role
Job summary
To work as part of the Healthcare team, providing administrative support, ensuring safe working practice in a secure environment in accordance with the Prison Healthcare Standard, Prison Service rules and Prison service Standing Orders.
The post holder will work in close liaison with other disciplines within the prison setting and with external agencies in arranging appointments to meet patient care.
The post holder will be fully integrated within a team of multi-disciplinary individuals.
The role will involve working at times without direct supervision, undertaking delegated tasks and reporting back to the line manager.
The post holder will actively participate in the ongoing development of positive working relationships with officers and staff throughout the prison.
Please note this post is subject to security vetting. To be considered for this post you will need to have continuously resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 years prior to this application and be able to evidence your years of residency.
Main duties of the job
Booking clinics and managing clinicians' ledgers
Allocating caseloads for new referrals and reviews
Maintaining local data bases and S1 waiting lists
Inputting data into local and national data bases
Support the service in collating patient feedback, complaints and compliments
Sending correspondence to residents under direction from clinical or leadership team
Placing procurement requests required by the teams
Take minutes in clinical and operational meetings
To use Microsoft Office programmes, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Job description Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
Security Vetting Essential
Application evidences 3 years of continuous UK residency
Skills and abilities Essential
Can demonstrate good communication skills both written and verbal Ability to work under pressure, prioritising and managing own workload Managing an unpredictable work stream on a daily basis.
Desirable
Previous experience of working in a prison or secure environment.
Qualifications /Experience Essential
Good level of general education NVQ LEVEL 3 in business administration Working knowledge of systmone Experience of collating and inputting data.
Desirable
Previous experience of working in a healthcare setting Have an understanding of patient confidentiality
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Address Morton Hall Prison
Eagle Road
Swinderby
LN6 9PT
Employer's website https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)