The post holder will: Support the Designated Clinical Officer (DCO) for SEND in ensuring that the ICB meet their statutory duties.....
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