MARAC Domestic Abuse Advisor

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in mental health is seeking a professional for a safeguarding role aimed at supporting front-line staff in addressing domestic abuse. The position involves participating in the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) and compiling evidence for audits. Candidates should have a professional qualification related to nursing, social work, or allied health, alongside experience in mental health services. A driving license and willingness to travel for business are also required.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in nursing, social work, or allied health.
• Degree required.
• Experience in mental health services preferred.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Kent and Medway MARAC's case management system.
• Maintaining accurate records and participating in audits.
• Support training delivery and continuous feedback improvements.

Skills

Domestic Abuse Practice Experience

Mental Health Experience

IT Skills (Excel, Word)

Training Delivery

Education

Professional Qualification (Nursing, Social Work, Allied Health)

Degree

Job description

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.

Main duties of the job

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).

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

The role will also involve giving and receiving a full range of feedback on training delivery and impacts, and supporting the use of such feedback to maintain ongoing development of a full range of media based as well as face-to-face training packages.

Maintain contemporaneous records, and audit activity.

The role requires a flexible approach to support cover when needed, and willingness to travel, and use video conferencing technology

The role requires isolated/lone working due to the nature of data input.

Training delivery is part of the role and requires confidence and enthusiasm with working and training people

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification Nursing, social work, allied health professional
• Degree
• Mental Health Experience

Experience

• Domestic Abuse Practice Experience ie training, DASH RIC, advocation
• Kent and Medway Local Domestic Abuse Multi Agency Protocol Experience

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.

Priority House Maidstone /Trust-Wide/Hybrid

Priority House Maidstone /Trust-Wide/Hybrid