Forensic Healthcare Professional - Southampton

PHL Group are looking for Forensic Healthcare Professionals to join the team working in Southampton Custody Suites. This is an exciting role where you will work alongside police officers to assess and treat individuals who are detained in police custody.

Could you determine if a detainee is suffering from a mental health condition, uncooperative, or lacking necessary diabetes medication? Are they a substance misuser or experiencing a head injury? Our Forensic Healthcare Practitioners (HCPs) are responsible for assessing and addressing the health needs of detained individuals, as well as conducting forensic medical examinations to gather evidence for use in the criminal justice system.

We invite you to contact us for an informal visit to the custody suite to see first hand how varied and challenging this role can be.

In this role, you will perform clinical assessments, identify and implement appropriate interventions, and collect forensic samples. You will provide advice and guidance to ensure the detainees receive proper care, maintaining detailed and accurate records to safeguard their health, safety, and welfare while in police custody.

PHL Group was founded in 2009 by a team of experienced General Practitioners and commercial partners with a clear vision of providing services that would contribute and benefit the local healthcare community. PHL Group is led by an experienced team of clinicians and healthcare leaders, with wide ranging experience in urgent and primary care environments. Operating a wide range of services across the UK and internationally, which include Custody Healthcare, ADHD services, Wait Time Support, Integrated Urgent Care, Special Allocation Service, GP Practices and Home Visiting. As a group we are well equipped to offer acute and primary care services as it benefits from a well-established organisational infrastructure and strong clinical governance and expertise. It is our mission to enable people to remain well and to receive the best possible health and social care through the provision of high-quality healthcare services and innovative and robust healthcare technology.

Forensic Healthcare Professional Skills and Experience:

• Effectively deliver the requirements of the forensic practitioner service following the Codes of Practice of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and locally agreed protocols.
• Keep accurate, complete and contemporaneous notes of work carried out, including the recording of injuries. Ensure all activities are logged using the systems in use.
• Provide advice and support to Custody Officers in determining the health care needs of detainees and the priorities of care. Seek telephone advice and refer cases to the Consultant FME when required.
• Provide a professional, responsive and caring service to detained persons in the custody environment to support the Custody Sergeant and Officers in assessing the healthcare needs of detained persons and an effective care pathway throughout their time in custody.
• Determine an individual's fitness to be detained, fitness to be released, fitness to be interviewed and competence to understand charge.
• Assessment of alcohol and drug intoxication and withdrawal.

Qualifications:

• Registered Nurse or paramedic with minimum of 3 years service.
• Full membership of the NMC or HCPC, RGN/RMN dual trained.
• Must have a full UK driving license with access to your own vehicle for business use.
• Competent in oral and written English.
• Have been continuously resident in the UK for at least 3 years.
• Right to Work in the UK.
• Ability to be cleared through the Police Vetting system: Level 2 NPPV clearance.
• A DBS check is required for this post. PHL will undertake an initial check at the appropriate level on appointment.

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.