Job overview

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults. We concentrate on improving people’s lives while protecting their right to live in safety, free from bullying, harassment, abuse, discrimination, avoidable harm and neglect. We make sure we share concerns quickly and appropriately.

The post-holder will have a significant role in promoting safeguarding which includes a think family approach, early help, prevention whilst advocating for the voice and experience of children and adults to ensure our response is person centred and safe.

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.

The role holder will also support a prevention approach to keep people and families accessing KMMH services safe, and to inspire wider confidence in service quality.

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).

Main duties of the job

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.

The role holder will also support a prevention approach to keep people and families accessing KMMH services safe, and to inspire wider confidence in service quality. 

The Safeguarding Specialist Advisor role requires collaborative working with external colleagues including social care, education, housing, addiction services and primary care etc.

The roles include supporting and contributing to the work of the local safeguarding children partnerships and adult safeguarding board. The post holder will provide safeguarding leadership, expertise and support to ensure safe practice and development to enable an organisational culture of preventing harm, neglect and responding to abuse.
The post-holders will contribute their specialist areas of child mental health knowledge and experience, along with safeguarding. Contributing across the full spectrum of safeguarding services, with support from the team as part of a think family approach. 
Core area’s
o    Safeguarding Children and Young People
o    Adult Safeguarding 
o    Prevent
o    Mental Capacity Act
o    DoLS (soon to be Liberty Protection Safeguards)

Working for our organisation

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.