Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
South West Prisons Transfer Coordinator
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We are seeking an experienced and motivated Prisons Transfer Coordinator
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Prisons Transfer Coordinator to join our Forensic and Offender Healthcare Directorate. This Band 7 role is responsible for coordinating safe, effective and timely mental health transfers for people in prison who require admission to external NHS or independent inpatient services.
The post will be based at HMP Bristol, with regular support and travel required to HMP Exeter. These are the two remand prisons in the South West with the highest volume of mental health transfers and will form the main focus of the role. The postholder will also be expected to travel to and support other prisons across the South West with mental health transfers on a case-by-case basis, although transfer numbers at these establishments are significantly lower.
You will work closely with prison healthcare teams, inpatient providers, commissioners, the Ministry of Justice and other partner agencies to support transfers within national timescales and ensure continuity of care throughout each person’s pathway.
The postholder will coordinate referrals, assessments, admissions and remissions for people requiring transfer under Part 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983. Acting as the key link between prison clinical teams and external providers, you will track each referral, identify and escalate delays, support resolution of disputed transfers and help ensure admissions are completed within the national 14-day transfer target. You will maintain accurate records and transfer data, provide specialist clinical advice, attend relevant reviews and forums, and support safe care planning when patients return to prison.
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Working primarily across HMP Bristol and HMP Exeter, you will build effective relationships with healthcare teams, secure services, commissioners, the Ministry of Justice and other statutory and independent partners. The role also involves supporting service development, producing reports and activity information, sharing best practice, contributing to staff development and providing professional leadership within a challenging custodial environment.
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We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
About Oxleas
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.
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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
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Katie Ody
- Job title: Mental Health Clinical Lead - HMP Bristol
- Email address: k.ody1@nhs.net
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