Senior Practitioner - Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

CompanySouth Gloucestershire Council

LocationYate, England, United Kingdom

Posted At2/26/2026

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Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled

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Description

How You'll Make a Difference

As a Senior Practitioner in the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) team, you will improve the quality of services provided to adults with mental health difficulties. Playing a pivotal role, you will ensure the performance and quality standards across the team are met and delivered to vulnerable adults in our community.

What You Will Be Doing

You will deliver our integrated service specification within the DoLS team.
Managing and leading the team of Best Interest Assessors, you will ensure the key statutory requirements of the service are met.
It will be your responsibility to provide a high level of support and supervision for our Best Interest Assessors and administrative staff in relation to casework practice and decision making.
As an experienced practitioner, you will keep your professional skills and knowledge of legislation and practice up to date and on occasions, you may be required to act as practice educator to qualifying and newly qualified staff.

What We Need From You

We require you to hold a relevant professional qualification e.g. DipSW, CQSW, CSS, OT Diploma and/or degree and be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Social Work England.

You will need a qualification as a Best Interest Assessor, with relevant post qualifying experience in an adult care community setting and experience of dealing with complex cases.

Ideally, you will have experience of working in a leadership role, with an understanding of supervising casework allocation and prioritisation within the team.

A further desirable would be for you to hold a post graduate management qualification, if not, you will have the willingness to undertake training.

What You Need To Know

This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and from home.
Please note that due to the nature of this role, it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained.

Interviews will be held on Friday 20th March 2026.

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos. We are a relatively small local authority, so managers know staff well. They can plan their services to ensure teams have manageable caseloads and have effective supervision so feel supported to make decisions which are right for the people you are working with.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Ensuring all our staff are given right skills, knowledge and support to recognise and respond effectively to potential abuse or neglect.

We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of
We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Senior Practitioner DoLS Team - Job Description