Mca & Safeguarding Practitioner

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an MCA & Safeguarding Practitioner in the Safeguarding Adults team at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for a qualified clinician (Nurse - RMN, RGN, RCN or RNLD, Sor OT) who has at least 2 years post qualifying in a clinical role with an interest in the MCA and Safeguarding. You will be patient focused with a passion for ensuring that our patients voices are heard and participation in all decision making is maximised. An understanding of the principles of Safeguarding Adults and the ability to work across agencies will be helpful, as will MCA literacy.

The Interview will be held on the 18th December

**You will be expected to**:

- support the MCA/DoLs practitioners and Safeguarding leads in providing support to clinical areas.
- Work with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams in supporting individuals with decision making, through helping facilitate best interests meetings and case discussions.
- Following appropriate development to act as an authorising manager for urgent DoLS
- Undertake tasks concerning the day to day organisation and operation of the team, working with the wider Adult Safeguarding team.
- Acting as the liaison with legal services over MCA/DoLS issues
- Provide and receive highly sensitive information (in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Caldecott guidance) maintaining confidentiality as appropriate
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information where there are barriers to understanding, for example interpretation of deprivation of liberty safeguards

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country's principal teaching hospitals and our main site is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. We have over 9,000 dedicated staff serving a population of 1.3 million across south-west London.

We deliver a large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation. We also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a range of community services to patients.

**Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role



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