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Drowning in Paper

I was on the ward yesterday morning. For a substantial chunk of time. Our borough had a rush of applications for assessments for authorisations of deprivation of liberty in the last few days in April. Just in time to take advantage of the extended April...

Published 14 May 2009 7:02 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, work, mental health, local authority, old age, assessment, health, hospital, psychiatric hospital, Best Interests Assessor, best interests assessment, best interests, dols, deprivation of liberty safeguards
My First Best Interests Assessment

Yesterday I completed my first Best Interests Assessment since the relatively new Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards went live on 1 April 2009. In brief these assessments grew from the need to clarify the legal position of those who lack capacity when...

Published 18 Apr 2009 7:06 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, dementia, work, mental health, MCA, local authority, old age, long-term care, assessment, health, mental health act assessment, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, General practitioner, AMHP, Best Interests Assessor, best interests assessment, bia, dols, Care Quality Commission, deprivation of liberties safeguards, dols assessment, deprivation of liberties
Assessing Capacity

We have, over the last 18 months or so, carried out a lot of capacity assessments in our team. Actually, truth be known, we were and have been carrying out capacity assessments for far longer but as far as codified assessments go, the paperwork has been...

Published 28 Mar 2009 9:32 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, dementia, work, carers, MCA, old age, elderly, long-term care, assessment, health, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Court of Protection, Care of residents, mental capacity assessment, Best Interests Assessor
An Assessment

I mentioned in passing that I was out at an early morning assessment earlier in the week. I wanted to reflect on some of the issues that arose without mentioning too much of the detail. It was the second attempt to assess as the first visit, Mr A had...

Published 27 Mar 2009 6:20 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, work, ASW, mental health, old age, elderly, assessment, health, hospital, mental health act assessment, work-related stress, General practitioner, AMHP, Psychiatrist
Assessing Best Interests - part 2

The training continues - it’s a fairly robust one as far as it goes and although it might not be apparent, despite the density of content, I am finding the substance interesting. As promised on the first day of the training, more of the bits and...

Published 20 Feb 2009 5:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social issues, older people, work, socialcare, mental health, MCA, local authority, old age, long-term care, deprivation of liberty, assessment, health, mental health act, hospital, mental capacity act, personal, AMHP, Law, Best Interests Assessor, best interests assessor training, bia, standard authorisation, conditions attached to authorisation, urgent authorisation
Assessment for Guardianship

I mentioned a Guardianship application I had in the works a few weeks ago. Nothing happens quickly around here at the moment with changes in the teams being imminent and what with trying to co-ordinate attendees, I finally managed the Guardianship application...

Published 28 Oct 2008 6:23 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, ASW, mental health, elderly, long-term care, assessment, health, mental health act, mental health act 1983, Mental disorder, Guardianship, social work assessment
On the ward

Image via Wikipedia I knew it wasn’t going to be a quiet day when I found a pink paper with a written recommendation for a Section 3 from one of our doctors sitting on my desk next to the ASW Duty Book - a book in which we note any Mental Health...

Published 12 Sep 2008 7:01 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, ASW, mental health, old age, uk, assessment, health care, health, United Kingdom, hospital, mental health act 1983, paranoia, ward, psychosis
With or Without Your Consent

Last week was quite a difficult one for me, work-wise. I’ve already mentioned a couple of the Mental Health Act Assessments I did a few days ago. There was another one yesterday and it was the most troubling I have been party to. At the moment,...

Published 21 Jun 2008 5:14 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, ASW, mental health, uk, assessment, health, hospital, sectioning, psychiatric hospital, approved social work, mental health act assessment
On Assessments

This week I completed two Mental Health Act Assessments (not on my own, of course, I’m still not warranted!). So I probably don’t need to elaborate on the fact that it’s been quite busy. Just a few aspects as I saw them. I spoke to one...

Published 19 Jun 2008 4:01 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, ASW, mental health, uk, assessment, mental health act, hospital, sectioning
Gaining Approval

In order to become an Approved Social Worker (ASW) the requirements are as follows - undertake a course of sixty days training (a mixture of lectures, seminars and supervised practice in a placement setting ) -apply for a warrant (after some more supervised...

Published 22 May 2008 6:07 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, ASW, training, mental health, warrants, assessment, mental health profession, being an asw

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