# Restraint Reduction and Search Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/restraint-reduction-and-search-lead/44e9f20d-35ce-4724-bca6-8dcaeefe3eb0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/restraint-reduction-and-search-lead/44e9f20d-35ce-4724-bca6-8dcaeefe3eb0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Chalkhill - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Lead (legacy management group) - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-11-13T15:30:44.681Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Sussex/Worthing/Sussex_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Administration/Administration-v8436961 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8436961?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you passionate about reducing restrictive practices, improving patient safety and promoting therapeutic trauma-informed care? We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to join our Clinical Governance Team as the Restraint Reduction and Search Lead. This is an exciting opportunity to support the Trust's commitment to reducing restrictive interventions, preventing violence and aggression, and ensuring safe and effective search and contraband management across our services. Working closely with the Reducing Restrictive Practice Lead and senior clinical leaders, you will provide specialist expertise, leadership and operational oversight across a range of priority programmes. You will lead the Restraint Reduction Team, support clinical services following incidents involving violence or restrictive practice, and contribute to policy development, governance, audit and quality improvement initiatives. The successful candidate will have substantial experience within mental health, learning disability or a related setting, with a strong understanding of violence reduction, restrictive practice and trauma-informed care. You will be a confident leader with excellent communication skills, capable of building effective relationships and influencing positive change across multidisciplinary teams. If you are committed to promoting safer, compassionate care and want to help shape the future of restraint reduction across the organisation, we would welcome your application. ### Main duties of the job Lead and coordinate the Trust's work relating to restraint reduction, violence reduction, PMVA, searching and contraband management. Provide operational and professional leadership to the Restraint Reduction Team, ensuring delivery of an effective, responsive and high-quality service. Deliver specialist advice and support to clinical services following incidents involving violence, aggression, restraint or restrictive practices, identifying learning and recommending improvements. Lead on the development, implementation and review of policies, procedures and standards relating to restrictive practice reduction, searching and contraband management. Monitor, analyse and report on data and incidents to identify trends, drive learning and support continuous improvement in patient safety and quality of care. Support the delivery, quality assurance and ongoing development of PMVA and violence reduction training programmes across the Trust. Work collaboratively with clinical teams, service users and partner organisations to promote evidence-based practice and safer, more therapeutic care environments. Contribute to governance, audit, quality improvement and service development initiatives that support the Trust's patient safety agenda. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification for more details on the main duties of the role. ### Applicant requirements This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. - Skills for direct line management and job management. **Desirable** - Ability to influence senior clinicians and managers on matters relating to violence reduction, restrictive practice and PMVA governance. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of PMVA methodologies, restrictive practice reduction, de-escalation techniques and trauma-informed care. - Detailed knowledge of reducing restrictive practice. - Current knowledge of relevant NHS policy initiatives within subject speciality. - Extensive knowledge of specialist areas within Mental Health. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of supporting staff and services following incidents involving violence, aggression, restraint or restrictive interventions. - Experience of developing and delivering training and education programmes aimed at reducing the use of restrictive interventions. - Experience of managing a team. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Professional qualification Mental Health Nursing, Social Work or Allied health Profession or equivalent experience. ### Approach/Values/Personal attributes **Essential** - Commitment to continuing professional development. ## Documents - [privacy notice (pdf, 127.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2254) - [restraint reduction and search lead job description & person specification (pdf, 258.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10772284) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.