Safeguarding Adult and Mental Capacity Act Specialist
3 weeks ago
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Safeguarding Adult and Mental Capacity Act Specialist to join our team at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. As a key member of our divisional team, you will provide specialist safeguarding adult and mental capacity advice across our Mental Health services in Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster.
Key Responsibilities- Provide clinical expertise within the division, offering consultancy at board and frontline practice level, on all aspects of safeguarding adults, the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and Prevent issues.
- Be aware of enquiries into concerns regarding adult abuse under the Care Act (2014), ensuring staff are supported in managing concerns/enquiries applying expert knowledge and experience.
- Ensure each service has systems and processes in place to safeguard adults at risk, in line with the Care Act, working with partner agencies in line with Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) legislation and statutory guidance.
- Provide professional safeguarding leadership in situations which are complex, risky, uncertain, ambiguous or have conflicting professional opinions, ensuring adults at risk are protected from harm whilst respecting and protecting their human rights.
- Communicate a range of highly complex, sensitive and contentious topics to a range of professionals in varying situations.
- Analyse highly complex information and situations and provide judgements as to a range of options, deciding on best action to ensure the optimum outcome for the adults, their families and carers, supporting staff to make person-centred safety plans.
- Advise on Duty of Candour in safeguarding related incidents.
- Be involved in complex safeguarding enquiries and ensure any lessons learnt from SARs, DHRs and local Learning Reviews are shared with the SAMCAT group and are widely disseminated across the Division and Trust.
- Work closely with the Trust's Children's Safeguarding Team/Named Professionals to develop best practice, for example, the Think Family approach, ensuring consistency of practice in relation to safeguarding across the organisation.
- Contribute to the Serious Case Review Panels or Learning Lesson Reviews and undertake an internal management review, when required, maintaining a log of Serious Adult Reviews (SARs), Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) and Maternal Death Reviews (MDRs) in the Division.
- Raise with Senior Management any key risks, issues and concerns relating to safeguarding practice in your locality/service areas.
- Lead on the Prevent agenda within your locality/service areas by being the point of contact for the Police Counter Terrorism Policing Unit and Prevent colleagues, in relation to patients about whom they have concerns.
- Act as the local decision maker with regard to whether frontline professionals need to make a Prevent referral, in collaboration with the Trust's Prevent Lead and senior colleagues when required.
- Design, develop and deliver training sessions on Safeguarding Adults, MCA and Prevent in line with the Intercollegiate Document on Safeguarding Roles and Responsibilities and Skills for Health, in line with the Trust's expectations.
- Tailor training to meet the needs of participants, seeking feedback and evaluation, ensuring staff can reflect their learning and understanding back. Reviewing and updating training packages as required.
- Participate in multi-agency research and evaluation, practice and service development.
- Lead on providing annual team-based training supporting staff to ensure that all staff have the key skills and knowledge required based on expert, evidence-based best practice.
- Review Datix incident forms that reference safeguarding and make recommendations to the service on actions required.
- Support the Head of Safeguarding Adults in the review and development of policies that relate to safeguarding and MCA.
- Facilitate the provision of a helpful and respectful service to patients, relatives and carers by providing an accessible responsive point of reference in relation to safeguarding adults, MCA and DoLS, and Prevent, upholding the principles of the Care Act and Mental Capacity Act in all communications.
- Ensure that each relevant team area has a DoLS tracker and be responsible for monitoring that this is kept up to date and in line with statutory duties. As part of meeting the Trust's statutory duties, ensure that staff have the required knowledge and skills to maintain the DoLS trackers.
- Interpret national policy and guidance, case law or new legislation into local strategies and policies and take responsibility for updating own knowledge and keeping abreast of changes to practice through case law and legislative changes and take a lead to implement within the relevant Division.
- Have an in-depth knowledge of the relevant Multi-Agency Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedures, Care Act statutory duties and other local NHS and Local Authority organisations Safeguarding Adults policies and procedures and promote understanding within the Division.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Social Worker/Allied Health Professional
- Educated or working towards Degree level of expert practice.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development with relevant further qualifications.
Desirable
- Enquiry Officer and/or Safeguarding Adults Managers training
- Teaching Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in a relevant community or specialist area, including evidence of safeguarding within practice
- Demonstrable experience of teaching others and evaluating learning
- Experience of working across professional and organisational boundaries
- Involvement in planning and delivery of training packages
Desirable
- Experience of staff management and supervision
Skills & knowledge
Essential
- Detailed expert knowledge of key statutory responsibilities and national policy relating to safeguarding, MCA and other relevant policies
- Ability to work in a person-centred way, demonstrating the principles underpinning safeguarding practice (MSP)
- Relevant knowledge of substance misuse, offender care, sexual health and/or community health, mental health, learning disability services (dependent on post applied to)
- Understanding of governance/risk and reporting systems and processes in organisational and multi-agency context
- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills including the ability to give clear advice and guidance to staff, negotiate and resolve conflict, and the development of written guidelines and procedures
- Ability to be able to present information effectively in a format which is easily understood by a wide range of staff
- Ability to analyse and process complex information and conflicting priorities/opinions
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and to deal with conflicting demands
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