Best Interest Assessor - 3months

Connect2Dudley; Dudley; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Connect2Dudley is seeking an Interim Best Interest Assessor in Dudley to provide leadership and professional expertise in complex statutory assessments under the Mental Capacity Act. You will lead Multi-agency collaboration, protect human rights, and supervise staff as required, with a focus on best-interest decisions.

The role is a 3-month contract with hybrid working, offering competitive hourly rates (£30 PAYE / £39.24 Umbrella) and a professional environment in Adult Social Care.

Qualifications

• Be an approved mental health professional (AMHP) or a registered social worker, or a qualified nurse/OT/psychologist.
• Must have completed a Post Qualifying Award – Best Interest Assessor (BIA).
• Up-to-date registration with the relevant regulatory body.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor a workload of complex cases involving risk and organise work activities, prioritising tasks.
• Make complex decisions about Mental Capacity and safeguarding concerns and lead complex assessments.
• Chair and facilitate meetings and contribute to safeguarding processes.
• Lead on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments and renewals or reviews as required.
• Supervise staff as identified by leadership, and deputise for Advanced Practitioner as needed.
• Collaborate with families and a wide range of stakeholders to ensure high-quality services.

Education

AMHP

BIA

Job description

Job Title: Interim Best Interest Assessor

Location: Dudley, Hybrid

Rates: £39.24 per hour (Umbrella) £30.00 (PAYE)

Duration: 3 Months (initially)

Job Role

As an exemplary practitioner, provide leadership and professional knowledge to colleagues; promote innovation, model and facilitate reflective practice. To be responsible for undertaking complex statutory assessments, as an independent professional, in accordance with the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards code of practice. You will make recommendations on whether a person is deprived of their liberty, and if so, is it in their best interests. Demonstrate the ability to collaborate and manage complex multi-agency and non-professional relationships in a manner that helps mediate conflict to ensure the needs of the individual are at the centre of all activity. Challenge other professionals, as applicable, including Consultant Psychiatrists and members of the legal profession, in line with professional values and behaviours and the principles of the Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding principles enshrined in the Care Act. To demonstrate professional curiosity and forensic skills of interrogating information quickly and concisely and ensure individuals' Human Rights are protected. Provide professional expert guidance and training as required to the rest of Adult Social Care and their partners around the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards in Practice. Demonstrate professional commitment and a high level of knowledge, critical thinking, communication skills and creativity, in order to support people to achieve positive outcomes and a good quality of life. To undertake leadership roles and deputise for the Advanced Practitioner and Team Manager, leading on Safeguarding issues as required. To have responsibility for the supervision of other staff as identified by the Team Manager or Head of Service.

Specific Accountabilities

• Manage and monitor a workload of complex cases involving risk and organise work activities, taking into account the need to prioritise tasks and responsibilities.
• Make complex decisions about Mental Capacity, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and safeguarding concerns and lead complex assessments, implementing Dudley's Adult Safeguarding Policy & Procedures whilst applying the principles of the Mental Capacity Act and Making Safeguarding Personal.
• Contribute to a busy Duty system and when necessary, make decisions to support or deputise for the Advanced Practitioner/Team Manager.
• Chair and facilitate meetings.
• Contribute to the resource/ budget management process.
• Use a range of methods to communicate effectively with adults who use services, eliciting the needs, wishes and feelings of all involved.
• Select, use, and review timely and appropriate Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments that are best suited to the person and their carer, including a strengths-based approach. Promote independence through the principles of necessary and proportionate assessments prompting least restrictive outcomes.
• Be responsible for the completion, coordination and implementation of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments and renewals or reviews where necessary and respond in a timely way to changes in circumstances.
• Work in partnership with people who use services, their families, and a wide range of other stakeholders to ensure the provision of quality, innovative services.

Qualifications

• Be an approved mental health professional (AMHP); registered social worker; or. qualified and registered first level nurse, Occupational Therapist, or chartered Psychologist.
• Required to have completed a Post Qualifying Award- Best Interest Assessor (BIA).
• Must have up to date registration & comply with requirements of the current applicable regulatory body.

Connect2Dudley is a trading style of Dudley & Kent Commercial Services LTD - A joint venture between Dudley Metropolitan Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Dudley is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates