AIVUK - Key Persons
Emma has worked with vulnerable people for many years in a variety of settings. From 1998 to 2015 she worked as a member of a specialist multi-disciplinary team working with older people with mental health problems. Since 2007 she has worked as a contracted Visitor for the Office of the Public Guardian and Court of Protection. Since 2015 she has also worked as a Best Interest Assessor on an independent basis and as a member of a local authority busy DoLS team. Her experience has allowed her to build up a good knowledge of resources, risk management and safeguarding vulnerable adults. Emma has developed excellent communication, assessment, written and advocacy skills and aims to empower clients so that they can take as much control of their lives as possible. She also has extensive experience of undertaking capacity assessments both in terms of property and affairs and health and welfare decisions. Emma can offer a variety of different services to support deputies and attorneys in their role and prides herself on her professionalism.
Fiona has been a Court of Protection Visitor since October 2013 and has recently been re-recruited for a further 10 years; the interview panel commented that Fiona "demonstrated an exceptional level of capability for this job role".
Over the last 10+ years Fiona has undertaken numerous visits to Lay, Professional and Public Authority Deputies and their clients. She has completed hundreds of mental capacity assessments and Stayed DoLS cases on behalf of the Office of the Public Guardian and the Court of Protection. She is a Health and Welfare and Property and Finance Deputy herself, supporting her severely learning disabled and autistic son. Fiona brings first hand personal knowledge in addition to professional skill to every piece of work she undertakes. Fiona has excellent inter-personal skills and uses a variety of techniques to support clients in the decision-making process.
Fiona has managed social care budgets for a variety of disabled people in her local area as a qualified book keeper since 2007. She also served on the Welsh Government's Citizen Panel for the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014, appointed by the Deputy Minister for Wales in January 2014. In addition, she has undertaken a number of voluntary roles supporting disabled children and adults to live as independently as possible.
Educated to honours degree level in Textile Design and Teaching she was previously Creative Director of a small house Publishing Company but changed career direction after her son was diagnosed on his third birthday in October 2000.
Lynne was appointed as a Lord Chancellor's Visitor in 1996 remaining in the post through the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act and continuing as a Court of Protection Visitor from 2007. She was formerly a caseworker in the Official Solicitors Office and later in the Public Trust Office, managing the financial affairs of people with mental disability. She was a visiting officer for the Public Trust Office for eight years before becoming a Lord Chancellor's Visitor. With 23 years of experience working with the Court of Protection and the Public Guardian, Lynne has an understanding of the needs of people with enduring mental health conditions, learning disability, dementia and brain injury.
In 2000 Tricia was appointed as a Lord Chancellor's Visitor and subsequently as a Court of Protection Visitor, and has visited over 8000 clients with regard to issues of mental capacity, on behalf of both the Court and local authority and professional Deputies. She has worked for 31 years with elderly people, especially those with varying forms of dementia, as well as people of all ages with head injuries, severe and enduring mental illness, learning difficulties, congenital conditions and physical disabilities. For eight years, she successfully developed and provided motivational and business start-up training to adults with physical and mental disabilities.