Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Head of Safeguarding Adults
London
Posted 9 days ago
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Deputy Head of Safeguarding Adults
Head of Safeguarding Adults, Mental Capacity Act, and Prevent
Role Purpose
Provide senior leadership, specialist expertise and organisational assurance for:
- Safeguarding Adults (SA)
- Mental Capacity Act (MCA)
- DoLS (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards),
- MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements)
- Prevent
Ensure the Trust meets statutory, national, and local safeguarding requirements, including CQC Safe standards.
Promote high-quality, person-centred, and legally compliant safeguarding practice across the organisation.
Key Functions
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Strategic Leadership & Expert Consultancy
- Act as the Trust’s senior specialist for SA, MCA, and Prevent, offering expert guidance to staff at all levels
- Provide strategic leadership within the senior management team, supporting service development, workforce standards, and organisational improvement
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High-Quality Safeguarding Practice
- Lead and assure embedded Making Safeguarding Personal, dignity, strengths-based, and trauma-informed approaches
- Advise leadership on SA/MCA legislation, policy, and national developments ensuring integration into Trust policies
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Partnership & Collaboration
- Lead cross-agency partnerships with Local Authorities, safeguarding boards, police, health partners, and other stakeholders
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Line Management & Oversight
- Manage Named Professionals and SA/MCA Specialists, ensuring high-quality supervision and consistent standards
- Support Trust-wide SA/MCA projects, audits, and improvement work
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide specialist advice on complex SA, MCA, DoLS, MAPPA, and Prevent cases across all levels
- Communicate complex and sensitive information clearly to a wide range of professionals and stakeholders
- Deliver expert guidance, training, and informal supervision to ensure safe, lawful decision-making
- Represent the Trust in:
- Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews
- Safeguarding Adult Reviews
- Local learning reviews
- Lead report writing, action planning, and ensure implementation/monitoring of safeguarding action plans
- Disseminate learning via Clinical Messages, 7-minute briefings, and other dissemination channels
- Update and embed SA/MCA policies, PiPoT (Preventing, Identifying, Responding to Elder Abuse), and MAPPA frameworks
- Work with corporate services to ensure safeguarding informs recruitment, safer staffing, and organisational processes
- Maintain current knowledge of legislation, national policies, and best practice
- Support alignment with NHS frameworks, such as PSIRF (Safeguarding and Human Trafficking) and PCREF (Core Safeguarding Methods)
- Strengthen multi-agency collaboration through shared forums and joint initiatives
- Ensure high-quality Trust-wide training and promote a legally literate, trauma-informed workforce
- Oversee safeguarding resources on TrustNet and serve as the reference point for MCA and DoLS
- Maintain expertise in local multi-agency safeguarding procedures
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Values & Behaviours
Essential:
- Flexible, creative, and adaptable problem-solving approach
- Strong commitment to improving safeguarding outcomes
- Ability to work independently and in multidisciplinary teams
- Willingness and ability to travel across Trust sites
- CALM AUTHORITY; ethical clarity and unwavering advocacy
- Commitment to dignity, respect, and trauma-informed practice
- Ensures adults at risk are heard, protected, and empowered
- Professional curiosity and decisive action on concerns
- Ability to collaborate confidently with multidisciplinary teams
- Models transparency, accountability, and challenges poor practices
- Champions a culture of safeguarding vigilance and continuous learning
Desirable:
- Experience leading complex safeguarding enquiries
- Strong influence over organisational safeguarding culture
- Highly developed communication skills
- Confidence to challenge at senior levels
- Strong relationship-building with health, social care, and external agencies
Education & Qualifications
Essential:
- Registered Professional (nursing, social work, ODP, psychology) with substantial clinical experience
- Professional management experience in a specialised safeguarding role
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Up-to-date statutory and mandatory training, including:
- MCA, DoLS
- Domestic Abuse, MARAC
- FGM, Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
- MAPPA
- Modern Slavery
- Trauma-informed practice
- Forensic mental health
- Complex case management
- Self-neglect and hoarding
- Prevent/Channel
- Training in safeguarding audit, quality improvement, or service evaluation (e.g., RCA, QI methodology)
- Advanced/expert understanding of safeguarding adult practice standards
Desirable:
- Master’s degree in Safeguarding, Public Health, Leadership, Forensic Practice, Mental Health, or Social Care
- Accredited training in:
- Clinical supervision,
- Coaching, or high-quality teaching (e.g., Practice Assessor/Pedagogical Supervisor)
Experience
Essential:
- Ability to manage complex cross-organisational information flows
- Digital literacy and experience maintaining safeguarding information systems/performance databases
- Strong analytical skills, interpreting complex risks and decision-making under pressure
- Experience in:
- Audit, benchmarking, and quality improvement
- Ensuring learning is embedded in practice
- Producing high-quality reports for senior and external stakeholders
- Assessing complex risk, including:
- Domestic abuse
- Sexual/criminal exploitation
- MAPPA
- High-risk individuals with fluctuating capacity
- Advanced knowledge of:
- Mental Health Act (MHA) and MCA interface
- DoLS (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards)
- LPS (Deprivation of Liberty)
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Desirable:
- Experience assessing niche safeguarding risks involving:
- Modern slavery
- Honour-Based Violence
- Elder Abuse
- Deployment of legal safeguards (courts, multi-agency procedures).
Skills & Knowledge
Essential:
- Experience in designing, delivering, and evaluating safeguarding training
- Teaching, coaching, mentoring, and reflective practice
- Strong partnership skills across health, social care, police, education, voluntary sector, and regulators
- Organisational sensitisation across diverse cultures
- Sound understanding of:
- GDPR and Caldicott principles
- Safeguarding information-sharing exemptions
- Ability to communicate with clients, families, and external partners sensitively
- Extensive experience managing complex statutory cases
- Court engagement
- Multi-agency procedures
- Ethical/legal dilemmas
- Advanced clinical assessment, planning, and evaluation skills
- Experience in safeguarding and clinical supervision
Desirable:
- Advanced knowledge of safeguarding:
- Mental Health Act 1983/2007
- DoLS/LPS classifications and interfaces
- Statutory guidance and frameworks for children and adults:
- Care Act 2014
- Children Act
- FGM, Modern Slavery, CSE, Prevent
Attitudes & Personal Characteristics
Essential:
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Can communicate clearly, compassionately, and professionally in distressing contexts
- Maintains credibility internally and externally
- Commitment to:
- Reflective practice
- Continuous learning
- Open and accountable environments
Desirable:
- Proactive quality improvement engagement
- Familiarity with current safeguarding themes and nuanced risk analysis
Organisation Benefits
"Career Development"
- Monthly supervision
- Annual personal development plans and appraisals
- Access to internal/external training opportunities
Career Pathways
- Preceptorship Programme
- Support with NHS revalidation
- Hidden Gem achievements & annual award ceremonies
Benefits
Flexible working arrangements, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle-to-work scheme.
Employment access to MyTrustBenefits Portal:
- 1,400+ national retailer discounts (note: groceries, toiletries, travel, leisure)
- Free professional/personal online courses (e.g., business, languages, law).
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Skills
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DoLS
MAPPA
Prevent
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Quality Improvement
Risk Management
Supervision
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