Safeguarding Specialist Advisor

Job summary

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults.

The post holder will be supporting and responding to a range of safeguarding enquiries from the whole work force including children and adult directorates, community & acute services, forensic and specialist, and all support services including volunteers within the trust.

Main duties of the job

The post-holders will have a strong advisory and signposting function, and will follow the systems and processes in place to effectively and expediently manage concern, referrals and individual cases.

The post holder will be required to liaise with operational services to reduce risk and concerns around safeguarding. Complete fact finding, such as via Independent Management Reports for Child Rapid Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Review etc with robust analysis. Advise on the management, waiting list and discharge plans for complex safeguarding cases to prevent omission, manage risk and support multi agency collaboration. Attend child and adult practice reviews and learning events, enabling learning to be taken forward in practice. Follow up on referral pathways, including case escalation in support of teams and practitioners.

The post-holders will deliver a significant amount of safeguarding training from a variety of safeguarding topics in a variety of formats, i.e. face to face, teams, planned, large sessions and bitesize to meet the needs of the work force.

The post holder will provide reflective safeguarding supervision and debrief, to optimise staff support and practice development.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification.

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Professional Qualification with active registration Nursing, AHP, Social Worker
• Safeguarding Experience
• 3 years post registration experience

Desirable

• Safeguarding Team experience
• Training delivery experience
• mental health services experience
• Mental Capacity Act Experience

Degree

Essential

• Degree in health or social care.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).