Employer: North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Parkhouse building
Town: Carlisle
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/02/2025 23:59
Designated Clinical Officer
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Are you passionate about health and social care and looking for a role that offers flexibility and growth? At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we value work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid working. Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development. Apply now to make a difference in our community!
Flexible Working Options: We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including part-time and job share. We encourage applicants to discuss their preferred working patterns during the interview process.
Hybrid Working: This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to split your time between our ICB offices and home. We aim to provide a supportive and adaptable working environment that meets the needs of our staff, service delivery and the patients within our Region.
* Competitive salary and pension scheme
* Opportunities for professional development and training
* Supportive team environment
* Enhanced work-life balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
* Employee Benefits – Salary Sacrifice Schemes such as Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation
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 people's health and well-being, and reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria, 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, which includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Detailed job description and main 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
* Registered clinical professional with evidence of current professional registration.
* Degree level qualification or evidence of academic achievement.
* Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a specialist area.
* Significant evidence of post-registration continued professional development / Postgraduate leadership and/or management qualification.
Experience
* 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.
Additional Information
The use of Artificial Intelligence: Whilst the ICB is a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
UKVI Sponsorship: Please note that North East and North Cumbria ICB do not hold a UKVI sponsorship license. Therefore, we are unable to proceed with applications that require sponsorship.
Reasonable Adjustments: If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend an interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Fit & Proper Person Regulations: Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Address: Northumbria House
Unit 7/8 Silverfox Way
Cobalt Business Park
NE27 0QJ
Telephone: 0191 203 1415
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