Safeguarding and Mental Capacity Act Named Professional

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the JD for full details.

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

The postholder will lead all activities in their identified locality/service areas to ensure that the Directorate/areas of responsibility meet their safeguarding responsibilities, so that Safeguarding is seen as paramount and a culture of dignity and safeguarding is embedded across the organisation: Safeguarding is everyones responsibility.

Whatever your role within the Trust, the welfare of children and adults should be your paramount consideration. In cases of suspected abuse or neglect, the duty of care that a 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 training on safeguarding.

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 in our healthcare settings.

To provide clinical expertise within the Division/areas of responsibility, 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.

To 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 and demonstrate that all advice is underpinned by relevant theory and evidence-based research and in exceptional cases, undertake these enquiries and attend strategy meetings, where appropriate.

Ensure each service has systems and processes in place to safeguard children and adults at risk (in line with the Care Act (2014), working with partner agencies in line with Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) legislation and statutory guidance.

Provide professional safeguarding leadership in complex, high-risk, uncertain, ambiguous, or conflicting situations, ensuring children and adults at risk are protected from harm while 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 on a range of options, deciding on the best action to ensure the optimum outcome for adults, their families and carers, and supporting staff to develop person-centred safety plans.

Advice 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.

To work closely with the Trusts Childrens 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Social Worker/ Allied Health Professional
• Educated to degree level
• Significant experience working in a relevant community or specialist area
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development with relevant further qualifications.
• Demonstrable experience of teaching others supported by professional development
• Substantial experience of working with adults working in health and social care services, including evidence of safeguarding within practice

Desirable

• Educated or working towards Master's level of expert practice.
• Experience of staff management and supervision

Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• Ability to work in a person centred way, demonstrating the principles underpinning safeguarding practice
• Ability to design and deliver training packages for a multi-disciplinary staff group
• Knowledge of developing guidelines, policy and procedures
• Knowledge of multi agency and multi professional working
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills including the ability to negotiate and resolve conflict
• Ability to be able to present information effectively in a format which is easily understood

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Gordon Hospital

Bloomburg Street

London

SW1V 2RH

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)