Best Interest Assessor DoLs

Job summary

An exiting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic individual to join the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Team on a full time basis, working as Best Interest Assessor (DoLs) on an 18 month secondment.

Main duties of the job

The Gwent Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLs) Team is an independent safeguarding team commissioned by the Supervisory Bodies of the five Gwent Local Authorities and Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. The team is based within Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and located at Mamhilad House Mamhilad Park Estate, Pontypool.

The successful candidate will be required across all LHB sites and will focus their work on in-patients within ABUHB where ABUHB acts as the DoLs supervisory body expected to work and travel across the whole of Greater Gwent and wider when necessary.

The Deprivation of Liberties Safeguards Team supports the Supervisory Bodies to meet their statutory obligations under Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (2009) (DoLS) by co-ordinating, undertaking Best Interests Assessments, completing reports for submission to the Supervisory Body when a request for an authorisations for a Deprivation of Liberty is requested by a Managing Authority (Hospitals and Care Homes).

The Team work specifically with people who lack capacity to consent to the arrangements made for their care or treatment, who require assessment to determine if their circumstances amount to a deprivation of liberty to protect them from harm and is deemed to be in their Best Interests.

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.