Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 824-CORP-7515392
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wembley Centre for Health
- Town
- Wembley
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 per annum, inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Named Professional and MCA Lead - Brent and Harrow
Band 8a
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Are you a highly skilled and passionate expert in Adult Safeguarding and the Mental Capacity Act (MCA)? Do you thrive on providing specialist guidance and leadership that ensures safe, legal, and truly person-centred care?
We are looking for a dynamic and inspiring Named Professional for Safeguarding Adults / MCA Lead to join our team. This is a crucial leadership role where you'll drive compliance with key legislation, including the Care Act (2014), Human Rights Act (1998), and the MCA (2005/2019 amendments).
Safeguarding is the golden thread across all health and social care services and the experience of working in a Named professional for Safeguarding Adults and MCA Lead role in CLCH will equip you with transferable skills and experience for future career development. The ability to work independently is essential, and frequent travel across the organisational area may be required.
You'll be instrumental in embedding the Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) principles and a Think Family approach across our services.
If you're ready to use your expertise to advocate for individuals, influence strategic direction, and elevate clinical practice, we encourage you to apply.
Main duties of the job
As the Named Professional for Safeguarding Adults / MCA Lead, you will be the expert driving force behind our commitment to safe, ethical, and person-centred care. Your main duties will include:
- Expert Leadership & Advice: Providing highly specialised advice, support, and leadership on all aspects of Adult Safeguarding, the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), and associated legislation (Care Act, DoLS/LPS
- Strategic Collaboration: Representing CLCH at Safeguarding Adult Boards (SABs) and multi-agency partnerships, influencing the strategic safeguarding agenda across the health and social care economy.
- Driving Assurance: Leading the safeguarding assurance work plan, managing the safeguarding duty system, monitoring performance data, and ensuring compliance with CQC standards and statutory duties.
- Policy & Practice Development: Developing, reviewing, and embedding robust, innovative safeguarding policies, and coordinating responses to serious case reviews (e.g., SARs) to ensure lessons are learned and embedded.
- Education & Support: Developing and delivering specialist safeguarding training (including MCA, DoLS, FGM, PREVENT) and providing high-quality restorative safeguarding supervision to all CLCH staff.
- Advocacy: Championing the rights of individuals and communities, ensuring that the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal and Think Family are at the heart of all our services.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- NMC registered nurse or allied health professional
- Educated to master’s level or relevant experience working with in community nursing or other health related professional qualifications
- Evidence of professional development
Desirable criteria
- A commitment to undertake further training
- Formal education in teaching or / experience in developing and delivering training programmes
- Safeguarding supervisor training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and specialist knowledge of safeguarding services.
- Extensive experience of working with adults who have complex needs.
- Experience of working with partner agencies responsible for safeguarding vulnerable groups
- Experience of working within complex adult safeguarding cases
- Experience in audit and Root Cause Analysis investigations
- Experience in developing, delivering, and evaluating safeguarding training
- Experience of participating in policy development
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience of designing and undertaking audits
- Experience of analysing and presenting data
- Experiencing in acting autonomously as an expert in safeguarding
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a safeguarding adult’s role
- Experience of working in a community healthcare setting
- Safeguarding supervision course and / or Train the Trainer courses.
- Experience of presenting at meetings /training
- Experience and knowledge of working within learning disabilities or mental health
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of legislation and guidance relating to adult protection
- Evidence how Equality, Diversity and Inclusion underpins safeguarding practice
- Knowledge and understanding of roles of partner agencies working within the safeguarding adults.
- Knowledge of safeguarding adult review (SAR) and the domestic homicide review process
- Ability to work in partnership with others / teamwork.
- Ability to deliver and lead effective supervision & training
- Ability to handle and process sensitive information in line with GDPR
- Excellent organisational and risk management skills
Desirable criteria
- Practical experience of DHR / SAR processes.
- Practical experience of delivering supervision.
- Experience of report writing
- Awareness of environmental sustainability
- Skills relating to development of training programmes / strategy and policy
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Donna Thornley
- Job title
- Head Safeguarding
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07506906461
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