Role Summary
We are recruiting a fulltime (37.5 hours) Band 7 Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Team Lead to join the ground-breaking Trust-wide MCA team.
We are inviting applications from all registered professionals, including, but not limited to; Allied Health Professionals, Nurses or those with a Social Work registration. We are looking for experienced clinicians who are keen to further their specialist skills in Mental Capacity Assessments and who are looking for an exciting leadership opportunity, to drive new trust wide processes to support the application of the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
About the Role
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More detail about the role
Band 7 Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Team Lead, for the Royal Devon MCA team.
- Are you a confident leader?
- Do you have a passion for the Mental Capacity Act?
- Are you looking for a new opportunity working flexibly with no weekends?
- Would you like to be part of a new team implementing legislation to support Mental Capacity across the Trust?
The ultimate aim of the post is to drive the Trust in its aim to improve and maintain compliance with the MCA and work as part of a team to set up a robust system for DoLS. The evolving multi-disciplinary MCA team is based at North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, and consists of 14 staff including Administrators, a Project Manager, Senior Practitioners and a Band 8a Professional Lead.
The focus of the role initially will be to support the Professional Lead in driving the service to demonstrate improving compliance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA). You will be required to develop team members, to enable them to deliver advice, training, complex capacity assessments and support staff throughout the trust at all levels. This role will help to ensure patients with complex vulnerabilities due to capacity issues are protected from harm, received the correct support and have appropriate adjustments made to ensure their journey is individualised safe and therapeutic. You will be a source of advice in relation to MCA matters, Deprivation of Liberty (DoLS) and act as a point of contact when the Trust is involved in any Court of Protection cases. You will be working with the acute hospital and community hospitals including children’s services in the Trust.
You will be working closely with clinicians and managers at all levels, providing remote and face-to-face training and devising other resources to ensure that the Trust is supported to meet the challenges of the MCA and its applications; in a variety of clinical and complex situations. You will have a close working relationship with the safeguarding team and will work together to support peoples human rights and safeguard them for abuse. You will experience a high level of support from the leadership team and be encouraged to be innovative and creative in your approach.
The post holder will work proactively with key internal and external stakeholders to support the effective use of the MCA and DoLS; to embed systems and processes to ensure that the trust meets its legislative requirements. You will have close support from the Band 8a MCA Professional Lead throughout this process, and working across Northern and Eastern Services with the MCA team for Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust (RDE) as part of the Joint MCA/LPS Operational Group.
The role will primarily be based in Barnstaple (North Devon District Hospital) but will include travel to Exeter at least one day a week.
Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week. We will consider job share and flexible working hours to meet the needs of the service.
Interview Date: To be confirmed.
For more information about the role please contact: Natalie Wensley, MCA Lead natalie.wensley1@nhs.net on 01392 406439 / 07788756532 or Stacey Endacott, MCA Lead Stacey.endacott@nhs.net on 01392 406439 / 07990410930
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.
