Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Assistant Practitioner
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About the Role
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is the provider of the Prison Pathway Team, a service jointly commissioned by the PROSPECT Lead Provider Collaborative and NHS England Health and Justice Commissioning.
The Prison Pathway Team plays a key role in supporting safe, timely, and clinically appropriate transfers and remissions between prison and health services. The service ensures that individuals who require specialist inpatient care are transferred promptly into the health system and, where appropriate, supports their remission back to the prison setting once hospital-level care is no longer required.
Through this work, the service contributes to improved capacity and demand management across services, enhances patient experience, delivers greater value, and supports targeted action to reduce identified health inequalities.
The Prison Pathway Team was initially established as a two-year pilot and has demonstrated clear effectiveness and impact, resulting in confirmation of permanent funding.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical input and intervention to a range of patients and prisoners under the supervision of a qualified Prison Pathway Practitioner.
- Focus on health promotion, coping strategies, and transitional support.
- Contribute to the ongoing successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for the population.
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Requirements
- Experience of working with patients/clients within a secure care facility is required.
About the Team
The team has an office base in the Indigo building at Maghull Health Park, but you will be required to travel to other health and prison sites to deliver the service. You will be joining a dedicated team with team members having high levels of skill, passion, enthusiasm, and humor.
About Mersey Care
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across the region and also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
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At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organizational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible Working
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Jo Towers
- Job Title: Prison Pathway Practitioner
- Email Address: joanne.towers@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 07386 689363
Additional Contact:
- Name: Emma Renilson
- Job Title: Prison Pathway Practitioner
- Email Address: emma.renilson@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 07766734853
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