Associate Clinical Officer for SEND

1 month ago

Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board Full time
Job Title: Associate Designated Clinical Officer for Special Education Needs

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced clinical professional to join our team as an Associate Designated Clinical Officer for Special Education Needs (SEND). This is an exciting opportunity to work with us to improve the lives of children and young people with SEND in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

About the Role

The Associate Designated Clinical Officer for SEND will work closely with the Designated Clinical Officer for SEND to ensure that the ICB meets its statutory duties for children and young people with SEND aged 0-25 years. This will involve leading on the operational delivery of SEND, supporting health services providers and local authority partners to respond to duties and improve experiences for children and young people with SEND and their families.

Key Responsibilities
  • Support the Designated Clinical Officer for SEND in ensuring that the ICB meets its statutory duties for children and young people with SEND aged 0-25 years.
  • Manage highly complex arrangements and relationships between the Nottingham & Nottinghamshire ICB and health service providers, Local Authority partners and stakeholders for education and social care.
  • Work with the DCO, strategically, to identify need and future need of children and young people with SEN and disabilities and their families to inform SEND partnership on joint commissioning arrangements.
  • Lead on or participate in working development or steering groups to ensure effective improvements for service design and delivery across the system to improve experiences and outcomes for children with disabilities and SEND (0-25).
  • Be the health lead representative on a weekly Education, Health, and Care (EHC) Panels for Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County Local Authority, as part of the multiagency EHC assessment process.
  • Co-ordinate and support partners to embed the development of robust pathways to enable health service providers to meet their statutory duties; when contributing to the EHC assessment and EHC annual review process, including the legal requirements to respond to the National First Tier Tribunal Extended Powers of Appeal.
  • Provide expert advice to on a daily basis to ICB Commissioners and Quality teams, Local Authority partners; stakeholders, and parent/carers, to understand the complexities relating to the Special Education Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) legal requirements and to provide clinical advice and support to navigate a complex system to ensure the needs of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CYP with SEND (0-25-year-olds) are being met.
  • Work collaboratively with SEND system partnerships to develop good relationships and integrated approaches for embedding delivery of the Preparation for Adulthood (PfA) agenda, through the coordination and development of transitions pathways for children and young people with disabilities, including those with an EHC plan, to access adult health services.
  • Lead on quality assurance improvements to ensure compliance of the ICB statutory duties for the EHC assessment and annual review process, by working in partnership with service providers and local authorities to ensure mechanisms and participation in quality assurance audits, to monitor the quality of provider contributions, and reporting on performance and outcome measures to assure the ICB of compliance.
  • Undertake analysis of data intelligence and quality reporting from health service providers providing judgement for assurance and escalate of risks to DCO and ICB commissioning, contracts, and quality leads via agreed governance structures.
  • The post holder will be required to support a system approach to the development of a SEND training competence framework across the system workforce and deliver training sessions via face-to-face events or online sessions, to the ICB, health service providers and wider partners workforce, as required.
  • To assist the SEND local area partnerships in the preparation and readiness for joint local area SEND inspections, to demonstrate compliance with Joint Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission SEND inspection framework requirements.
  • Deputise for the DCO in National and Local SEND forums, and undertaken any other duties deemed necessary by line manager to respond to local area partnership requirements, within your scope of practice.
  • To act as an exemplar for Nottingham & Nottinghamshire ICBs vision and values.
Person Specification

Education/Qualification

  • Clinical qualification and current professional registration RN Child, RN Learning Disability, SCPHN or Therapist (OT, Physio, Speech and Language)
  • First degree or equivalent demonstrable equivalent experience
  • Evidence of continual professional development

Knowledge and Experience

  • Knowledge and understanding of the main issues affecting outcomes for children, young people and families, particularly children and young people with SEND
  • Knowledge of the principles and practice of effective people management; excellent customer service; appropriate risk management
  • Significant experience of working in a clinical setting with children and young people with SEND, including management experience
  • Significant experience of working in a partnership way across organisational boundaries
  • Experience of being able to identify and use measures that support continuous improvement and performance management audit
  • Experience of developing and delivering training to multi-agency/ professional groups

Desirable

  • Current and broad knowledge of patient and public involvement, including co-production

Skills and Attributes

  • Ability to undertake and interpret highly complex assessments using a person-centred planning approach, ensuring clear outcomes are identified for children and young people
  • Ability to write and present clear presentations and present information in a clear and concise manner

Personal Qualities

  • Excellent interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence and ability to effectively communicate with people at all levels across departments and organisations.
  • Ability to manage workload with the flexibility to adapt to changing demands and meet deadlines
  • Able to travel between locations
  • A full driving licence

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