Safeguarding Adult and Mental Capacity Act Specialist

The overall purpose of this role is to ensure the Trust meets its organisational, national and local requirements and responsibilities in Safeguarding Adults, Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and Prevent. This includes meeting the Safeguarding Standards under the Safe domain by the CQC. This will be achieved by providing specialist knowledge on adult safeguarding issues, MCA and Prevent. The Safeguarding and MCA Specialist will provide consultancy to staff at all levels within the Division and at times across the Trust, using expert evidence-based specialist safeguarding knowledge and skills.

The postholder will provide leadership and assurance across the field of adult safeguarding and will work closely with other specialists, named and designated professionals.

The postholder will lead on all activity in their identified locality/service areas required to ensure that the Directorate/areas of responsibility meet their safeguarding responsibilities so that Safeguarding Adults is seen as paramount and that a culture of dignity and safeguarding is embedded across the organisation in line with Making Safeguarding Personal.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced professional with an established interest in safeguarding adults to join our divisional team to provide specialist safeguarding adult and mental capacity advice across our Mental Health services in Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster.

This is a London based post. The successful applicant will be expected to carry out some face to face duties in inner London on a regular basis.

We are looking for a dynamic and engaged professional with excellent communication and leadership skills to deliver our safeguarding agenda across community and in-patient mental health services. The post holder should have knowledge of safeguarding adults and Mental Capacity Act processes and practices and must be able to represent the Division at all levels with regard to safeguarding adults and Mental Capacity Act practice and policy.

Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. Whatever your role within the Trust the welfare of children and vulnerable adults should be your paramount consideration. In cases of suspected abuse or neglect the duty of care that member of CNWL staff owes will take precedence over any obligation to a parent or other adult.

All members of CNWL staff who have contact with service users, or their families, should be familiar with guidance on Safeguarding Children and Adults from their own Professional Body, the Trust and Multi-Agency Safeguarding Procedures. Staff are also required to attend mandatory safeguarding training.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.