Designated Health Officer - SENDNHS

Job summary

The Designated Health Officer (DHO) for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) will work in partnership with the Designated Social Care Officer (DSCO), the NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (NHS SYICB) Quality & Patient Safety team and Head of Transformation and Delivery for Children and Young People (CYP). The DHO will work in collaboration with the local authority.

The post holder will provide the strategic leadership necessary to ensure that the NHS SYICB and providers for whom it has responsibility for, meet the statutory duties of the Children and Families Act (2014) and the SEND Code of Practice (2014) for CYP with SEND, aged 0 25 years.

The post holder will:

• Act as a strategic health lead for the Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) identification, planning, process and pathway.
• Provide professional and clinical leadership and be a source of expertise on matters relating to SEND for the NHS SYICB, local authorities, health care providers and other local agencies and organisations.
• Ensure healths compliance with the legislation and spirit of the SEND Code of Practice to improve outcomes for CYP with SEND.

Ensure that the outcomes for CYP with SEND are maximised by working to improve quality of life, school absences, mental and physical health problems, personal autonomy and involvement in further education and employment, independent living and community inclusion.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be part of the quality, safety and improvement function and work closely with CYP transformation teams in each Place They will provide expert input into strategic and clinical planning, standard setting, and assurance process in the service provision for CYP with SEND.

The post holder will be a source of expertise and specialist knowledge for all issues relating to the local and national SEND agendas. The post holder will provide specialised clinical advice in safeguarding and children looked after in association to SEND.

Job description

For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.

About us

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local communities to deliver our four key aims of 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.

Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care services that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GP practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health in South Yorkshire.

South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer