Safeguarding and Mental Capacity Act Named Professional

Overview

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 10 February 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced professional with an established interest in safeguarding to join our team, providing specialist safeguarding and mental capacity advice across our addictions, sexual health and health and justice services. These services are based in several London Boroughs, Surrey and Milton Keynes, with the office base being in the Gordon Hospital in London.

There is scope for a degree of remote working.

The post is within the Diggory 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 with clinical services, but there is no patient caseload. The post covers both child and adult safeguarding, so some experience in either or both will be beneficial.

We are seeking a dynamic and engaged professional with excellent communication and leadership skills to deliver our safeguarding agenda across the services covered. The post holder should have knowledge of safeguarding and Mental Capacity Act processes and practices and must be able to represent the Division at all levels with regard to safeguarding 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 Children and 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 children and 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.

Central and North-West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) provides a wide range of services in North-West London, parts of Surrey, and Milton Keynes. Diggory Division, where this role is based, provides addictions services, sexual health services, health and justice services and, In Milton Keynes, in-patient and community Mental Health services, and community services such as District Nursing.

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.

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