MCA and DoLS Advisor inSunderland inSunderland PUBLISHED
THU 17 OCT 2024
This Band 6 position, based mainly at Sunderland Royal Hospital, requires a qualified nurse, social worker, or allied healthcare professional with at least two years of post-qualifying experience. The advisor will engage in various responsibilities such as delivering training, contributing to policy development, conducting quality audits, and fostering collaboration across the trust to enhance patient care and legal adherence. Flexibility in work location and hours is necessary, and the job demands a motivated and assertive individual passionate about protecting patients' rights.
The MCA DoLS Advisor is an integral part of the Safeguarding Team and will work alongside other members of the Team to support the Assistant Director Safeguarding and MCA Lead in achieving best practice and enable the Trust to carry out its legal requirements as a Supervisory Body under MCA DoLS.
The STSFT Safeguarding service are pleased to be able to offer an exciting new Band 6 role working alongside/with the Safeguarding service. If you have a passion for protecting the human rights of patients and would be interested in working as a key part of our team to ensure the Trust meets its legal requirements and MCA is embedded in practice, then this is the role for you.
This is a varied, rewarding role for motivated, hardworking individuals and will require a flexible and assertive candidate who can demonstrate a practical understanding of Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberties with a good understanding of safeguarding practice with children and adults, within a busy acute hospital/community.
You will be supported to develop specialist knowledge of mental capacity knowledge and safeguarding and have the opportunity to share this knowledge through delivering training to the organisation, providing support and advice, developing understanding of clinical services and developing strong relationships with frontline teams.
The Mental Capacity Act 20was a landmark piece of legislation aimed at protecting the human rights of some of the most vulnerable members of our society by supporting them to make their own decisions or where they lack the capacity to make those decisions, provide a framework for making decisions in their best interests. The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards were created in recognition that some of our patients may lack the mental capacity to consent to the accommodation and care arrangements put in place to ensure they receive the care and treatment they need.
You will have a good understanding of safeguarding adults, ideally in a health and/or social care setting, underpinned by a sound working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. If you are a qualified nurse, social worker or allied healthcare professional or have a health or social care related degree, with a minimum of two years post qualifying experience and you have a passion for learning and a desire to protect patients and assist colleagues to ensure the law is applied correctly and consistently, then this is the job for you.
This post is 30 hours per week. Working days/hours are negotiable (Monday to Friday). Sunderland Royal Hospital will be the primary base, however this is a trust wide position and the need for flexibility in terms of work location to support service need across all sites. In the future there may be a requirement to work outside of current working days
About us
- Work closely with the senior MCA/DoLS advisor under the supervision of the Lead for MCA/DOLS, the post holder will support the delivery of a high-quality MCA/DOLS service providing professional advice, support and education to the multi-professional team.
- Displaying enthusiasm for the subject and developing their specialist knowledge to offer advice to colleagues to support the requirements for Mental Capacity assessments, Best Interest decision making processes, DoLS applications and potentially Court of Protection cases with support from legal services.
- This role will convey and present highly complex and sensitive information written and verbal, formally and informally as appropriate. Ensuring that applicable information is maintained and kept in an appropriate place.
- Working in conjunction with the lead and senior advisor for MCA/DoLS ensuring standards are monitored and the golden thread of MCA is being consistently applied, through observation in practice.
- To record, monitor, update, deliver and evaluate the effectiveness of the MCA/DoLS training strategy, ensuring all staff has access to the level of education and training required.
- Contribute to the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards policies, guidelines and procedures ensuring they are embedded into practice.
- Work in collaboration with the trust safeguarding team to ensure communication in place on cases whereby MCA and safeguarding interlink.
- Support the MCA Lead and the wider safeguarding team to undertake quality audits relating to all issues pertaining to the MCA and DoLS, including of adherence to MCA and DoLS.
- Support the MCA lead and senior advisor with the development and delivery of any actions identified through audit and evaluation procedures.
PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE.
Please note the Trust are not able to offer Skilled Worker Sponsorship for this role as it does not meet the UKVI threshold requirements. Applicants are requested to consider this when making their application. Please visit Gov.UK for further information
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