Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-6413149-MA-AA
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Helier & Epsom General hospitals - cross site
- Town
- Surrey
- Salary
- £42,471 - £50,364 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/08/2024
Employer heading
MCA & Safeguarding Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
- An exciting opportunity has arisen for an MCA & Safeguarding Practitioner in the Safeguarding Adults team for gesh (St George's, Epsom & St Helier Hospitals Health Group) based between St Helier and Epsom General Hospital.
- We are looking for a qualified clinician (Nurse - RMN, RGN, RCN or RNLD, or 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.
Main duties of the job
- Support the Safeguarding & MCA team 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 a resource and provide advice on the use and application of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), in particular use of least restrictive practices
- 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
Working for our organisation
After many years of collaboration and creating closer working ties, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust formed a hospital group and appointed a Group Chief Executive in August 2021 (following the appointment of a Chairman in Common in 2019) and a single executive team in January 2022.
Working as a hospital group under one executive leadership team allows for more joined up decision making for local people, a larger and more resilient clinical workforce, reduced variation in care and access to a wider range of services for our patients.
The Group Chief Nurse (GCNO) and Group Chief Medical Officer (CMO) are the Executive Directors jointly accountable to the Trust Boards for the delivery of the quality and safety agenda, including patient experience.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of this post. Informal discussions are encouraged.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Follow procedures and protocols
- Demonstrate ability to carry out risk assessments in practice
- Organisation of self and workload
- Strong communication with patients
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years post registration
- Understanding of the post
- Experience of interagency working
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrated experience of working with MCA/DoLs
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current registration (RN - any; OT; S< Social Worker)
Desirable criteria
- Safeguarding specific role
- Mental health qualification
- Competency based teaching qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the MCA
- Understanding of safeguarding principles
- Understanding of clinical governance and risk assessment
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anne-Marie McEntee
- Job title
- Head of Adult Safeguarding (Acute)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8296 3881
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