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Private Clients: Yes Legal Aid: Limited Reports Written: 100+ Court Attendance: 10 Gary has been a member of the National Expert Witness Agency since 2017 and holds £5m professional indemnity (PI) insurance with Hiscox Insurance as a full BASW ISW member. |
Gary Spencer-Humphrey ISW Consultant
BA (Hons) LL.B (Hons) MA PgD RSW MBASW FRSPH Gary is an experienced dual-registered Independent Social Worker (ISW) in England and Wales and is highly regarded for his expert, easy-to-read social work reports, underpinned by solution-focused outcomes for adults living with complex care matters. He has a career spanning over two decades working across adult social care and mental health. He is currently a Senior Manager in Adult Social Care and a doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Health, Education and Society at the University of Northampton. Gary is a warranted Approved Mental Professional (AMHP), a Best Interest Assessor and a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Authorising Officer. In addition to his social work qualification, Gary also holds a law degree (LL.B), a postgraduate diploma in safeguarding, a master's degree in advanced clinical (psychiatric) practice and is working towards a doctorate in healthcare. Gary is a certified MoCA rater and holds the Civil Procedural Rules Expert Witness Certificate for Family Law and Civil Law. He is regularly instructed in mental health and mental capacity matters in the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales and the First Tier Tribunal (Mental Health) in England. Gary has held seasonal posts as an academic tutor for a leading distance learning institute and has guest lectured at Bournemouth University for the School of Nursing and Midwifery. In 2012, Gary was appointed by the Lord Chancellor to sit on the Mental Health Review Tribunal as a Specialist Member, hearing various referrals and appeals under the Mental Health Act 1983 and continues to be the youngest paid judicial officer holder in Wales. In 2017, he won a national social work award for contributing to community-based social work and continued to support the awards as a director and charity trustee. In 2019, he was also nominated by a specialist Continuing Healthcare appeals company and won the prestigious Lawyer Monthly Expert Award. Then again in 2022, Social Worker Gary was shortlisted as a finalist for the The News (Portsmouth) Business Excellence Award. Gary's PA is Nic Muller and they can be contacted on 02392 985459 or via email [email protected]. |
Training and Skills:
Academic
DProfPrac - Doctor of Health and Social Care (current) (Northampton University) MSc - Master of Science in Advanced Clinical Practice (Bournemouth University) Postgraduate Diploma in Adult Safeguarding (University of Keele) Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Mental Health (Bournemouth University) LL.B (Hons) Bachelor of Laws (The Open University) BA (Hons) Bachelor of Arts (Social Work) (The Open University) City and Guilds 7407 Certificate in Education - Teaching (Havant College) Level II Certificate in Counselling (Eastleigh College) Memberships
Fellow: Royal Society of Public Health Founding Member: Association for Psychosocial Studies Registrant: Social Care Wales Registrant: Social Work England Member: British Association of Social Workers |
Professional
Section 117 Mental Health Act Legal Update (Edge Training) Social Supervision Refresher (Southampton City Council) AMHP Legal Update (Edge Training) DOLS Authoriser / Approving Officer (Edge Training) DoLS Legal Update (39 Essex Chambers) Motivational Interviewing (refresher) 2 days (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust) MoCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment Rater (MoCA) Level 4 Adult Safeguarding Managers' Training (Making Connections, IOW) Level 3 Adult Safeguarding Lead Officer Training (Making Connections, IOW) Approved Mental Health Professional Supervisor (West Sussex County Council) Eating Disorders and the Brain (Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) Forensic Social Supervisor Training (West London Mental Health NHS Trust) Motivational Interviewing (Advanced) (Hampshire County Council) Expert Witness CPR Certificates: FPR and CPR (Bond Solon) Adult Protection Jointly Trained A.B.E Investigator (Hampshire Constabulary and Hampshire County Council) Royal College of General Practitioners - CPD Certification Drug Misuse Management: Level 1 Alcohol Management in Primary Care: Level 1 Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Level 1 Eating Disorders: Level 1 Mental Health Panel Member Training (Judicial College – UK) Analyst: Root Cause (Health and Safety, Hampshire County Council) Practice Supervisor (Workforce Development, Hampshire County Council) |