Associate Designated Clinical Officer for Special Education Needs

at  NHS Nottingham Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board

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.
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 for CYP 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.
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.

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