Best Interest Assessor
7 months ago
About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time, Best Interest Assessor in the Cambridgeshire DoLS Team.
The DoLS team have an important role in upholding the human rights of residents in care homes and hospitals across Cambridgeshire.
You will be working with a dedicated and skilled team of Best Interest Assessors, DoLS coordinators, as well as the MCA DoLS manager.
The role involves travel across Cambridgeshire and neighbouring counties.
Interviews will be held in person on 19th and 22nd March.
What will you be doing?
You will be assisting the supervisory body to fulfil its’ statutory roles. The role is interesting and diverse and includes (but is not limited to) completing Mental Capacity and Best Interest Assessments under the DoLS framework, reviews, prioritisation of referrals, signing off the work of others and offering shadowing opportunities to other staff members. In the role you will have access to a range of training and CPD opportunities.
As a Best Interest Assessor, you will be a Senior Practitioner and in this role you are expected to provide professional leadership in situations which have highly complex case arrangements, provide expert guidance to other professionals, provide written and verbal reports which are concise, informative, and based on analysis of complex evidence, act in a DoLS signatory capacity and provide cover for the Team Manager during short term absences.
About you
**As a qualified Best Interest Assessor, you will need to be a registered Social Worker, Nurse or Occupational Therapist with at least two years post qualifying experience.**
You will need to have excellent working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards frameworks and up to date knowledge of relevant case law.
Please see the job description for full job specification.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
For **this role,** we offer more specific benefits like:
- Generous **annual leave** provision (28 days, plus bank holidays)
- A **supportive management team** that will champion your learning and development
- **Employee Assistance Programme** - access to free support 24 hours a day
- Payment for **business mileage expenses** (45p per mile)
- Plus, 6 days of protected time each year to enable our professionals to maintain their **Continuous Professional Development**.
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