EDIC Practitioner

Early Days in Custody (EDiC) Practitioner

Location: Isle of Sheppey HMP Elmley

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £39,338-£46,962 per annum, dependent on experience

We have an exciting opportunity for registered mental health nurses 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 patients 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.

What will you be doing?

As a EDiC Practitioner you will:

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.

Oxleas is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified RMN with experience in any of the following areas:

Learning Disability

Personality Disorder

Substance Misuse/Dual Diagnosis

Mentally Disordered Offenders

What do you need?

• NMC Registration
• Degree supplemented by diploma, specialist training
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification as an RMN
• Extensive clinical experience
• Supervisory experience of junior staff and students

What next?

If this is a role youre interested in, and you want to join the team and help make a difference, please click on the apply button. You will be redirected to a page where you can enter your details, answer a few questions about your experience, and attach your CV. Someone will then be in touch with you to provide you with next steps.

Interested? Click apply now!

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