Job summary
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced DCO to join our North Cumbria team. At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we are committed to providing high-quality care and support to our community.
Main duties of the job
The remit of the post covers Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) for the ICB. The post holder will act as a point of expertise for all aspects of SEND, and the Designated Clinical Officer function (DCO), i.e., advisory, strategy, leadership, governance, policy, relationships, and connections within the Local Delivery Team.
You will be responsible for providing delegated SEND leadership according to your workstreams. Alongside the Head of SEND you will have oversight of performance and activity relating to services that deliver to Children and Young People with SEND to inform the ICB and support, enable and resolve Local Delivery Team (LDT) challenges by DCOs.
About us
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is an exciting opportunity to work within the ICS structure linking across NENC with the other DCOs and helping to shape the local system to deliver for children, young people and their families. If you feel you have demonstrable experience in delivering against this agenda and the personality and commitment to integrate well, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is an exciting opportunity to work within the ICS structure linking across NENC with the other DCOs and helping to shape the local system to deliver for children, young people and their families. If you feel you have demonstrable experience in delivering against this agenda and the personality and commitment to integrate well, we would love to hear from you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered clinical professional with evidence of current professional registration.
- Degree level qualification or evidence or academic achievement.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Desirable
- Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development / Postgraduate leadership and/or management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Have substantial clinical experience as a professional working with children and young people and / or SEND
- Highly developed and specialist knowledge in relation to the SEND agenda and relevant legislation, local and national policy and good practice guidance.
- Understanding of the NHS, social care, and local authority 'landscape' and interdependencies.
- Appreciation of evidence and thinking relating to LDT areas and partnership working which reduce health inequality, improve patient services.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
- Demonstrable experience in managing highly sensitive situations with patients, families, or carers and/or with wider advocating agencies.
- Advanced specialist knowledge in SEND.
- Good understanding of Inspection frameworks in relation to SEND.
- Ability to work with parents & carers to fulfil statutory SEND requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered clinical professional with evidence of current professional registration.
- Degree level qualification or evidence or academic achievement.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Desirable
- Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development / Postgraduate leadership and/or management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Have substantial clinical experience as a professional working with children and young people and / or SEND
- Highly developed and specialist knowledge in relation to the SEND agenda and relevant legislation, local and national policy and good practice guidance.
- Understanding of the NHS, social care, and local authority 'landscape' and interdependencies.
- Appreciation of evidence and thinking relating to LDT areas and partnership working which reduce health inequality, improve patient services.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
- Demonstrable experience in managing highly sensitive situations with patients, families, or carers and/or with wider advocating agencies.
- Advanced specialist knowledge in SEND.
- Good understanding of Inspection frameworks in relation to SEND.
- Ability to work with parents & carers to fulfil statutory SEND requirements.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
