Promoting Safe Services Clinical In-Reach and Training Manager

Integrated Care System; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Canterbury is seeking a Clinical In-Reach and Training Manager to lead a training team in delivering high-quality training programmes. The successful candidate will focus on reducing challenging behaviours in clinical settings and ensuring compliance with national accreditation standards. Candidates must have relevant teaching qualifications and significant clinical experience. A commitment to diversity and inclusion is essential.

Qualifications

• Teaching qualifications and experience in PSS and violence reduction.
• Clinical experience in Mental Health or Learning Disability services.
• Specialist knowledge of relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist professional and clinical advice to multi-professional teams.
• Maintain national BILD ACT accreditation for training.
• Monitor and evaluate training programmes to ensure compliance.

Skills

Teaching PSS techniques and violence reduction programmes

Clinical experience working in Mental Health and/or Learning Disability services

Specialist knowledge on the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act

Education

Evidence of teaching qualification

Nationally recognised Tutor qualification in the prevention and management of violence and aggression

Job description

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Promoting Safe Services Clinical In-Reach and Training Manager

The closing date is 25 August 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Promoting Safe Services (PSS) Team for a Clinical In-Reach and Training Manager.

As part of the Promoting Safe Services (PSS) management team, you will be responsible for leading and managing the training team to ensure delivery of essential, high-quality training programmes designed toprevent and safely manage behaviours that challenge within clinical services.

There will be a focus onexpanding the delivery of PSS training to external agencies which will require the post holder to developpositive working relationships with external partners.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be required to demonstrate thatthey are able to uphold KMPT Trust values at all times, representing the organisation in a number of externalforums.
• The post holder will work clinically with MDT teams supporting individual patients that present with dysregulated, distressed and harmful behaviours through a positive behaviour framework.
• There will be a focus on reducing restrictive practices whilst providing expert advice, practical leadership and coaching on strategiesthat can enhance the lives of the people we support.

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

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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Job responsibilities

• To provide specialist professional and clinical advice to multi-professional teams who highlight that theyare working with patients exhibiting complex behaviours/needs and/or dysregulation, with a clear focuson working collaboratively with staff and patients to achieve positive patient outcomes.
• To promote a culture of inclusion, equality and diversity, reflecting the best interests of both patients andstaff.
• To work with the PSS Service Manager in maintaining national BILD ACT accreditation and ensure alltraining adheres to legislation, national guidance and policy.
• To continually monitor, review and evaluate all training programmes delivered by the PSS team to allteams across the organisation.

Please see attached Job description for further details of duties and responsibilities and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of teaching qualification
• Nationally recognised Tutor qualification in the prevention and management of violence and aggression

Skills

• Teaching PSS techniques and violence reduction programmes
• Clinical experience working in Mental Health and or Learning Disability services
• Specialist knowledge on the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act

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.

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust