Best Interests Assessor
WILTSHIRE COUNCIL, Devizes, Wiltshire
Best Interests Assessor
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WILTSHIRE COUNCIL, Devizes, Wiltshire
- Part time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 29 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 2926d0b37fc348c481820ee4e7bc560b
Full Job Description
Are you ready for a challenging and rewarding role that involves protecting the rights of vulnerable adults and ensuring their best interests are upheld?
Join the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Mental Capacity Act Team, facilitating the Council's ability to grant standard authorisations to care homes, nursing homes and hospital wards. We act as a source of support and advice to teams for matters regarding the Mental Capacity Act and best interest decision making.
As a Best Interest Assessor, you'll work within a small, dedicated team to assess residents in care homes, determining if a deprivation of liberty is occurring. Responsibilities include conducting DoLS assessments, maintaining accurate case records and offering expert consultation. Assessments involve face-to-face discussions with adults, evaluating care plans and assessing their capacity to understand their needs.
Our ideal candidate will have at least 3 years' experience as a registered Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, along with a Best Interests Assessor qualification. Expertise in the Mental Capacity Act 2005, its Code of Practice and the connection between DoLS and safeguarding principles is essential. Success in this role requires strong record-keeping, clear reporting aligned with legal standards and the ability to assess, evaluate, and analyse complex evidence effectively for sound decision-making.
If you have good knowledge of the social impact of disability, illness and injury on individuals and families and would like to be the person to make a difference, apply now.
Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. That's why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right. Explore more benefits here!
This position comes with a 7.5% market supplement payment. All market supplement payments are subject to review on an annual basis., To change everything around you, change where you work
Whether your aspirations lie in children's services or adult care, you can build a life that has real balance at Wiltshire Council. We are a positive and innovative place to work and bring a genuine can-do approach to everything we do. We have simplified our structures to ensure that our decisions are focused on our communities. Protecting the vulnerable is one of our key priorities - help us achieve this.
Our promise to you
We are innovating to create strong communities - we will empower you to share your ideas, to make suggestions and to help us find new solutions to old problems, whilst supporting you with the latest technology and encouraging collaboration with our communities, partners and colleagues.
We don't focus on limitations; we focus on opportunities and possibilities. In doing so, we're perfectly placed to help you achieve your potential and enjoy a truly fulfilling career. And this means you'll be able to empower our communities too, working collaboratively to help our residents live happier, healthier lives.
Our focus is on creating strong communities and we need aspirational, committed social workers. Learn about our approach to social care, our new social care academy and browse our vacancies.
We give our staff the opportunity to learn, develop, and grow. Our induction process for new starters is excellent, and you will receive regular supervision and training, access to memberships and subscriptions such as Research in Practice and Social Care Information and Learning Services (SCILS), team meetings, peer groups, journal clubs - the list goes on!
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