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NHS England and NHS Improvement came together on 1 April 2019 as a new single organisation. The NHS Long Term Plan focuses on delivering integrated care to patients at the local level and we can best support the NHS to deliver this as a single integrated organisation.

The South East Learning Disability and Autism Regional team has an exciting opportunity for a 12 month secondment/fixed term opportunity to support Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) work of the learning disability and autism NHS Long Term Plan priorities including the following:

Please note that the reason for the fixed term of your contract is that the role is a short-term vacancy.

• Bringing down waiting times for autism assessments.
• providing the right care for children with a learning disability and or autism.
• reduce health inequalities.
• Leadership and governance across systems against their local SEND strategy
• The visibility and quality of the Local Offer to parents and children
• Effective co-production
• Quality and timeliness of Education & Health Care Plans
• Waiting times for Therapy provision
• Further develop improved mechanisms to enable oversight of delivery and areas for improvement
• Workforce challenges-in paediatrics, AHP and DCO roles
• Supporting systems with Written Statements of Action (WSoA), and Accelerated Progress Plan (APP) at place and ICB as they develop, to improve and strengthen governance and joint commissioning arrangements.
• Working with CYP Board leads to provide synergy between CYP and SEND Maturity Matrices
• Developing relationships with new ICS/ICB leaders with responsibility for SEND, aligned with regional CYP programme
• Support for SE DCO/DMO and LA network
• Further developing relationships with SEND ICS Operational Leads
• Reviewing and contributing to strategic and operational improvement plans and ICB development
• Close alignment and collaboration with NHSE SEND National lead , DfE leads and teams
• Progressing towards ambition of dashboard development to improve business intelligence and improvement focus
• Development and piloting of training provision and training assurance tool
• Improving the effectiveness of our communications

Our new operating model represents a strong shift to regional delivery supported by expert corporate teams. Local health systems are supported by our integrated regional teams who play a major leadership role in the geographies they manage.

If you are a passionate health professional who enjoy matrix working with a variety of stakeholders and committed to improving outcomes for children and their families, we look forward to hearing from you.

If you would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please contact Trish Hagan, details below.

This is a 12mth fixed term contract due to it being a short-term vacancy

We reserve the right to change the closing date of this advertisement.