Mental Capacity Act and Consent Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This specialist role involves providing expert advice and hands-on support to clinical teams, patients, and families regarding the Mental Capacity Act 2005, consent, and deprivation of liberty processes. The practitioner will work autonomously across inpatient wards, ensuring lawful and person-centred decision-making. Key responsibilities include supporting capacity assessments, best interests meetings, and delivering training to improve staff understanding and compliance. The role also contributes to audit, quality improvement, and safeguarding processes.
Essential criteria
- Extensive working knowledge and practical experience of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, including capacity assessments and best interests decision-making.
- Understanding of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), consent to treatment, and awareness of Court of Protection processes.
- Experience of working within healthcare settings, either within or alongside clinical teams.
- Circumstances
- Ability to travel in a timely and work flexibly across multiple hospital sites.
- Registration
- Registered healthcare or social care professional (e.g. Nursing, Therapy or Social Work) with relevant professional registration.
- Extensive working knowledge and practical experience of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, including capacity assessments and best interests decision-making.
- Understanding of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), consent to treatment, and awareness of Court of Protection processes.
- Experience of working within healthcare settings, either within or alongside clinical teams.
- Circumstances
- Ability to travel in a timely and work flexibly across multiple hospital sites.
- Registration
- Registered healthcare or social care professional (e.g. Nursing, Therapy or Social Work) with relevant professional registration.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £50,129 – £57,365 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Mental Capacity Act and Consent Practitioner
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
CTM UHB is seeking a skilled and motivated Mental Capacity Act & Consent Practitioner to support and strengthen lawful, person centred decision making across our services. This specialist role is central to ensuring compliance with the Mental Capacity Act 2005, associated case law, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Court of Protection processes and organisational preparation for the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS).
You will act as an expert advisor and practitioner, providing hands on support to clinical teams, patients and families, particularly in complex or high risk cases. Working autonomously across inpatient wards, the role promotes human rights based practice, supports safeguarding processes and contributes to organisational assurance through audit, training and quality improvement.
We are looking for a registered professional with strong practical experience of the Mental Capacity Act, excellent communication skills, and the confidence to appropriately challenge practice to protect patients' legal and human rights.
This post is fixed term/secondment until 31 March 2027 due to funding.
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager pri
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