GESH MCA Nurse (SGUH) | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

st georges nhs trust; Tooting; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an MCA Nurse for the Safeguarding Adults team, based across St Helier and Epsom. The post requires a qualified clinician with at least 2 years post-qualification experience and an interest in MCA and safeguarding.

You will support the MCA team, facilitate best interests discussions, and work across agencies to uphold patient voices and decision-making, including DoLS considerations.

Qualifications

• Qualified clinician with at least 2 years post-qualification clinical experience.
• Interest in MCA and safeguarding principles.
• Ability to work across agencies and understand MCA processes.

Responsibilities

• Support Safeguarding & MCA team in clinical areas.
• Facilitate best interests meetings and case discussions.
• Act as resource on DoLS and least restrictive practices.
• Liaise with legal services on MCA/DoLS issues.
• Handle highly sensitive information with confidentiality.

Skills

MCA literacy

Safeguarding Adults

Cross-agency collaboration

Education

Qualified clinician: Nurse RMN/RGN/RCN/RNLD/OT

Job description

GESH MCA Nurse (SGUH) | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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.
• 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

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.

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of this post. Informal discussions are encouraged.

This advert closes on Thursday 29 Oct 2026

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust