Safeguarding Adult and MCA Specialist

Safeguarding Adult and MCA Specialist

The closing date is 04 February 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced professional with an established interest in safeguarding adults to join our divisional team, providing specialist safeguarding adult and mental capacity advice across our in-patient and community services in the Brent and Harrow Boroughs of London.

This is within the Jameson Division of The Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant will be expected to carry out some face-to-face duties in outer London on a regular basis, visiting our services as required.

We are seeking a dynamic and engaged professional with excellent communication and leadership skills to deliver our safeguarding agenda across the community and inpatient 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.

The overall purpose of this role is to ensure the Trust meets its organisational, national, and local requirements and responsibilities in Safeguarding Adults, the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), 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, utilising expert, evidence-based, specialist safeguarding knowledge and skills.

Jameson Division provides in-patient and community Mental Health services, as well as Learning Disability services, in Brent, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea, and Westminster. The position is based at Gordon Hospital, although it is expected that the postholder will visit sites across the Jameson portfolio.

The postholder will provide leadership and assurance across the field of 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 Adults is seen as paramount and a culture of dignity and safeguarding is embedded across the organisation, in line with Making Safeguarding Personal.

Safeguarding is everyones 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 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 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 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.

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