Safeguarding Adult Mental Capacity Act Lead (TSDFT Regulated Services)

This is an exciting opportunity for a Registered Health or Social Care professional to join the Torbay NHS Trust as a Lead in the Safeguarding Adult / Mental Capacity Act Team.

The post provides the opportunity to work with a variety of health and social care colleagues on all aspects of Adult Safeguarding and Mental Capacity Act legal duties. This will include taking a lead role in ensuring there are consistent and effective operational responses to safeguarding adult concerns within TSDFT regulatory settings and ensuring all (regulated) clinical staff understand their roles in keeping people safe from abuse or neglect and responding to adult abuse concerns.

If you enjoy working in a varied and busy environment and have a passion for upholding human rights principles, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will have a central and highly visible role in embedding systems and processes in TSDFT regulatory services to ensure adults are protected from abuse and neglect.

This will include taking a lead role in ensuring there are consistent and effective operational responses to safeguarding adult concerns within TSDFT regulatory settings and ensuring all (regulated) clinical staff understand their roles in keeping people safe from abuse or neglect and responding to adult abuse concerns.

You will take a lead role in ensuring existing legal frameworks of the Mental Capacity Act are embedded into clinical practice at all levels of regulated services and that staff are clear on how to implement the requirements of Mental Capacity Act legislation and code of practice guidance. This includes deprivation of liberty and liberty protection safeguards.

Using intelligent monitoring, the post holder will collect and analyse information about the effectiveness of systems and processes and will implement action plans in response as needed.

A key component will be to maintain strong partnership relationships to support effective responses to safeguarding and mental capacity operational activity.

Qualifications and training

Essential

• Current Registered NMC or HCPC Professional
• Comprehensive training in safeguarding adult, Mental Capacity Act or other relevant training e.g. safeguarding risk management frameworks (Prevent, Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence

Desirable

• Educated to Master's Level or above

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Broad range of safeguarding adult and Mental Capacity Act clinical practice experience including contributing to or chairing safeguarding adult Care Act s.42 enquiry meetings, Mental Capacity Act best interest meetings or similar
• Broad range of legal literacy relating to safeguarding adults and Mental Capacity Act frameworks. E.g. Care Act, Human Rights Act, Mental Capacity Act, Modern Slavery Act, Counter Terrorism and Security Act, Mental Health Act, Domestic Abuse
• Knowledge of CQC regulatory standards relating to safeguarding adults
• Experience in undertaking complex multi-disciplinary risk assessment and risk management
• Substantial experience of partnership working across a number of agencies
• Demonstrate ability to deliver multi-disciplinary training
• Experience of supervising others

Desirable

• Knowledge of application of NMC and HCPC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice