Gesh Mca Nurse (Sguh)

St George'S University Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Tooting, Epsom, Saint Helier; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a MCA & Safeguarding Practitioner to join the Safeguarding Adults team. The role is based at St George's Hospital with cross-site working at Epsom and St Helier as required.

You will be a qualified clinician (Nurse RMN, RGN, RCN or RNLD, or OT) with at least 2 years' post-qualification clinical experience and an interest in MCA and safeguarding. You will support decision-making and promote patient voices in all care decisions.

Qualifications

• Current UK professional registration (RN/OT/SW) is essential.
• At least 2 years post-registration in a clinical role.
• Experience of interagency working.

Responsibilities

• Support the Safeguarding & MCA team in clinical areas.
• Facilitate best interests meetings and case discussions with multi-agency teams.
• Advise on the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and least restrictive practices.
• Act as authorising manager for urgent DoLS (after appropriate development).
• Coordinate day-to-day team organisation and liaise with the wider Adult Safeguarding team.
• Liaise with legal services on MCA/DoLS issues.
• Maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive information per Data Protection Act.

Skills

Procedures & protocols

Risk assessment in practice

Workload organisation

Effective communication with patients

Education

Current UK professional registration (RN/OT/Social Worker)

Job description

Job summary

This is a full time role based at SGH but with cross site working at Epsom and St Helier as required

• An exciting opportunity has arisen for an MCA & Safeguarding Practitioner in the Safeguarding Adults team for gesh (St George's, Epsom & St Helier Hospitals Health Group) based between St Helier and Epsom General Hospital.
• We are looking for a qualified clinician (Nurse - RMN, RGN, RCN or RNLD, or OT) who has at least 2 years post qualifying in a clinical role with an interest in the MCA and Safeguarding.
• You will be patient focused with a passion for ensuring that our patients voices are heard and participation in all decision making is maximised.
• An understanding of the principles of Safeguarding Adults and the ability to work across agencies will be helpful, as will MCA literacy.

Main duties of the job

• Support the Safeguarding & MCA team in providing support to clinical areas.
• Work with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams in supporting individuals with decision making, through helping facilitate best interests meetings and case discussions.
• Following appropriate development to act as a resource and provide advice on the use and application of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), in particular use of least restrictive practices
• Following appropriate development to act as an authorising manager for urgent DoLS
• Undertake tasks concerning the day to day organisation and operation of the team, working with the wider Adult Safeguarding team.
• Acting as the liaison with legal services over MCA/DoLS issues
• Provide and receive highly sensitive information (in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Caldecott guidance) maintaining confidentiality as appropriate
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information where there are barriers to understanding, for example interpretation of deprivation of liberty safeguards

About us

After many years of collaboration and creating closer working ties, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust formed a hospital group and appointed a Group Chief Executive in August 2021 (following the appointment of a Chairman in Common in 2019) and a single executive team in January 2022.
Working as a hospital group under one executive leadership team allows for more joined up decision making for local people, a larger and more resilient clinical workforce, reduced variation in care and access to a wider range of services for our patients.
The Group Chief Nurse (GCNO) and Group Chief Medical Officer (CMO) are the Executive Directors jointly accountable to the Trust Boards for the delivery of the quality and safety agenda, including patient experience.

Details

Date posted: 16 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year per annum inc HCAS
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 200-8251498-GO-ND
Job locations: St Georges Hospital - but will provide cross site cover for Epsom and St Helier hospitals, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, SW17 0QT

Person Specification

Skills - Essential

• Follow procedures and protocols
• Demonstrate ability to carry out risk assessments in practice
• Organisation of self and workload
• Strong communication with patients

Experience - Essential

• 2 years post registration
• Understanding of the post
• Experience of interagency working

Experience - Desirable

• Demonstrated experience of working with MCA/DoLs

Qualifications - Essential

• Current registration (RN - any; OT; S< Social Worker)

Qualifications - Desirable

• Safeguarding specific role
• Mental health qualification
• Competency based teaching qualification

Knowledge - Essential

• Understanding of the MCA
• Understanding of safeguarding principles
• Understanding of clinical governance and risk assessment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer contact details

Head of Adult Safeguarding (Acute): Anne-Marie McEntee, [e-mail], 07824519329

Employer's website

Employer's website: https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/