Court of Protection Application Officer

Job summary

The successful candidate will work with the continuing healthcare team to identify the patients receiving CHC funding who meet the criteria for requiring a Deprivation of Liberty authorisation from the Court of Protection. You will be managing your own DOLs caseload and assisting case managers and nurse assessors with the Court of Protection process.

You will be required to provide dedicated support to the continuing healthcare team for the continued development of patients who require Community DOL authorisation within the NHS continuing healthcare caseload.

You will prepare the necessary documentation to present before the court and present all new referrals to the ICB, liaising closely with internal and external professionals to ensure completion of all the required evidence and prepared within agreed timescales and to track and work to Court order deadlines.

You will be expected to support families and carers with queries around the process, in conjunction with the case managers. This will involve meeting patients face to face.

This post is an exciting opportunity to work ensuring community DOL authorisation are in place within the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB footprint The successful candidate will provide increased capacity to the current NHS Continuing care team to ensure that DOLs authorisations are implemented in an effective and timely way.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

• To act as a single point of contact for individuals and professionals across health and social care organisations to provide information and assistance in relation to all aspect of DOLs applications.
• Develop protocols for own work, including the monitoring and development of the applications.
• To research issues using a variety of sources to support specific enquiries and requests for information about DOL applications.
• Develop and maintain links with partner organisations in order that DOL applications continue to work well for people.
• To act as an ambassador for all aspects of DOL applications.
• To carry out other specific tasks/projects appropriate to delivering the objectives of the Directorate as agreed with the Service Manager.

About us

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population.

We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS' priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally. In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan).

The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.