Mental Capacity Act Practitioner/cns - London, United Kingdom - St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

This role, with support from the Safeguarding Adults Team, will act as support to the lead operational practitioner in relation to the Mental Capacity Act.

This role will support the promotion and development of local provision to meet the legislative requirements of the Mental Capacity Act and associated NHS and Trust Safeguarding guidance and policies to ensure patients are supported and kept safe.

This role is open to social workers, registered nurses and allied health professionals with the relevant experience.

In addition, the role may be may be required to provide generalist adult safeguarding support to clinical areas.

As a Band 7 position, the staff member must be able to manage complex cases, act autonomously, complete audits, and provide training.

This role will also include identifying and working on strategic areas for development in mental capacity and deprivation of liberty.

The role will also work with and provide cover to the Domestic Abuse Team when needed.

The post holder will be proactive in the delivery of mandatory and bespoke training linked to our teams work in accordance with the Trust's Mental Capacity Act Training Strategy.

The post holder will be well versed with both the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (and the MCA Amendment Act 2019) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, alongside the Care Act 2014 and Domestic Abuse Act 2021.

This role is a full time role that is based on site, and interviews will be conducted face to face.

Full details are on the job description:

Contribute towards the management and coordination of St George's Hospital mental capacity and DoLS response; with support from the team and adult safeguarding lead
The role will support the wards and department where patients may be experience or at risk of abuse and self neglect to facilitate safe discharge and ensure people receive adequate support
Support other areas within the wider team, such as Adult Safeguarding, Domestic Abuse and Learning Disability Liaison
Contribute to learning and strategic development within the organisation around mental capacity and DoLS, such as training and addressing organisational issues
The role will also include assessment under the MCA 2005. With training for the BIA role available if the applicant is not yet qualified.

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.

The safeguarding and mental capacity team consists of two Band 7 safeguarding practitioners, one Band 7 mental capacity act practitioner (this role), one Band 7 Domestic Abuse CNS, and a Band 6 safeguarding and mental capacity practitioner, reporting to the Band 8a Adult Safeguarding Lead.

We also work closely within the wider Safeguarding service which includes the children's teams, and Learning Disability Liaison Service.

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