Associate Designated Clinical Officer for Special Education Needs

2 months ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board Full time

Job summary

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) are providing an exciting opportunity for a registered clinical professional to join and support the Designated Clinical Officer (DCO) for Special Education Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND).

The DCO for SEND plays a key role, as part of the leadership team for SEND in Local areas, ensuring health service providers and commissioners meets its statutory duties in implementing and embedding SEND responsibilities for health and supporting joined up working between health services, local authorities and other SEND partners, for children and young people (CYP) with SEND aged 0-25, as set out in the Children and Families Act 2014 (Part 3).

We are looking to recruit a passionate advocate for placing the voice of Children and Young people at the Centre of improvements and decision making. The Associate Designated Clinical Officer for SEND will be required to support the DCO in delivering on these requirements, providing professional and clinical leadership, and being a source of expertise on matters relating to SEND for the ICB, Local Authorities, and healthcare providers, amongst other local agencies and organisations including; the local area Parent Carer Forums and children and young people forums.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to lead on the operational delivery for SEND, supporting health services providers and local authority partners across Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County, (Bassetlaw included) to respond to duties and improve experiences forCYP with SEND and their families.

The post holder will act as a point of advice for parents, carers and young people on the health aspects of special educational needs.

This role will require, gaining, the understanding of complex commissioning and health service provider arrangements to be able to support and inform commissioners for CYP (0-25) health services.

About us

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population.

We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS' priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally. In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan).

The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

Support the Designated Clinical Officer (DCO) for SEND in ensuring that the ICB meet their 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 both local area Parent Carer Forums (PCF), and stakeholders for education and social care to work in partnership with the ICB commissioning, quality, and contract teams to inform on gaps in provision and support service development. 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. To provide clinical expert advice to support the discussion in relation to individual Children and young peoples health needs and to analysis and provide judgements for decision making around for ensuring that children and young people (0-25) with SEND needs are being identified and provision commissioned is appropriate for meeting their needs, all within in the legal framework for requires to be secured within a EHC plan. 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 (025-year-olds) are being met. To co-ordinate and support health service providers in meeting their duty to ensure information is available and accessible to services users on Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County SEND Local Offer websites. To work in partnership with the Local authorities in the co-production and ongoing review of their Local Offer website. 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

Essential

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

Essential

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

Essential

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

Essential

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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