Support the Designated Clinical Officer (DCO) for SEND to assure the ICB and NHS services are able to 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, health service providers, both Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire Local Authority partners and 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. Lead on or participate in, improvement activities to ensure system are able to improve experiences and outcomes for children with disabilities and SEND (0-25). To provide clinical expert advice to support local partners in their decision making. Work collaboratively with SEND system partnerships to develop good relationships and integrated approaches for embedding delivery of the Preparation for Adulthood (PfA) agenda. Lead on quality assurance improvements to ensure compliance of the ICB statutory duties for the Education, Health and Care (EHC) assessment and EHC Plan annual review process. Undertake analysis of data intelligence and quality reporting from health service providers, providing judgement for assurance and escalation 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