Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Best Interest Assessor to work Part Time (27 Hours) based in Hull.
The salary for this permanent BIA job is up to £41,511 per annum.
Main duties:
- Maintain comprehensive and accurate case records, producing high quality reports and correspondence for a variety of audiences, including but not limited to, court, meetings, panels, conferences and other agencies.
- Assess the person’s situations in a way which maximises their participation and takes into account the views of family members and relevant professionals to determine if the person is being deprived of their liberty and if so if this is in their best interests.
- Sensitively negotiate when assessing service users and carers where there is conflict or lack of insight to try to resolve this conflict or where this is not possible signpost to available options.
- Demonstrate through their practice a strong commitment and comprehensive understanding of mental capacity, deprivation of liberty and safeguarding, including critical reflection and analysis of challenging cases, changing contexts at local and national levels, awareness of current issues and evidence-based practice research.
- Assist the DoLs and MCA Practice Lead and Operational Team Manager - Dols in helping staff to develop skills and expertise in the areas of mental capacity, deprivation of liberty and safeguarding, providing coaching, and mentoring to social care staff, as requested.
- Using their expert knowledge and understanding the post holder will provide professional support, education, advice, and guidance to staff across various agencies in Hull and members of the public.
- To assist in the delivery of awareness/training and practice workshops on the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, policy and procedures ensuring a joint approach with the training department.
- To support the DoLs and MCA Practice Lead in scrutinising Dols assessments to ensure legal compliance
- To form part of a duty rota to respond to urgent BIA requests
Requirements of BIA job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This BIA job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
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