MARAC Domestic Abuse Advisor

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust are committed safeguarding and protecting adults and children from abuse. The safeguarding team enables support and guidance to front line staff to ensure adults at risk, children and families are supported, risks identified and appropriate services are referred into to enable working together at the earliest opportunity.

The post-holder will provide Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) & Domestic Abuse support to front line staff working for KMMH by representing KMMH and sharing mental health views from our practitioners within the MARAC, to ensure support and develop multi-agency action plans clearly reflect mental health and care needs in relation to high risk domestic abuse concern.

The post-holder will have a significant role in both preventing abuse, and protecting adults and children at risk from harm through the use of data and research collection applied to the MARAC system, and attending as required the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC).

The role requires understand the impact of domestic abuse and violence on children and supporting practitioners to respond safely.

The role requires a wide understanding of domestic abuse, including impact and risks of adolescent to parent abuse, and mechanisms to safeguard families.

The role will predominantly consist of participating in Kent and Medway MARAC's case management system, and representing KMMH in a professional and proficient manner.

Completing research and sharing outcomes with the relevant KMMH professionals, including documenting on the client RiO records; to ensure that KMMH patients are supported and protected from harm, whilst supporting front line staff in meeting this need.

We participate in Kent and Medway MARAC's.

The role includes collating and monitoring MARAC statistics, and participating in relevant audit activity across the Trust, gathering evidence of action plan compliance to ensure KMMH are meeting safeguarding obligations in the delivery of safe care.

The post holder will be proficient in IT skills including using Excel data base and Word packages, and have excellent record keeping skills. Experience of mental health services would be advantageous however the skill to ensure information from mental health professionals is clearly captured and shared, to ensure appropriate representation and advocation is essential.

The post-holders will be involved in learning events, delivering training, and establishing service needs relating to the safeguarding / MARAC and encouraging the view that safeguarding is everyone's business.

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).

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alison Deakin and Safeguarding Team Job title: Head of Safeguarding Email address: Telephone number:

Please call the team for more information