Send Co-ordinator - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are recruiting a full time permanent Band 7 SEND Co-ordinator to work alongside our current SEND Co-ordinator and the Preparing for Adulthood Lead to ensure that our staff and health services meet their statutory responsibilities for children and young people (CYP) with special educational needs and disability (SEND) aged 0-25, in line with the SEND Code of Practice.

This includes working across the Healthy Family Teams 0-19 and Children's Specialist Services.

It is a rare and exciting opportunity to support transformation of our services with a key role in designing, developing and implementing priorities in relation to SEND.

The post holder will:

Work within the Community Children & Young People's Service and Healthy Family Teams 019 to colead and develop the SEND agenda for young people, aged 025 with EHCP/complex physical health needs and/or life limiting conditions.
Develop and maintain strong partnership working across children's community health services and the wider health system and ICS to design, develop and implement priorities in relation to SEND.
To seek out new opportunities in terms of good practice and innovative research which can be adopted locally.
Develop and ensure effective processes are in place for the identification, assessment, planning and health notification of children who may have SEND and identify any gaps in provision.
Act as an expert resource, providing support, advice and leadership to the workforce, in managing operational issues integral to the EHCP for highly complex cases.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day.

We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire.

Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire.

We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network.

Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions.

We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you

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To quality assure and monitor systems to ensure timely health input into Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP).

Work with services, children, young people and their families, ICB, NHS England and Local Authorities to develop and embed policies and procedures in relation to the EHCP pathway(s) and Tribunals

To support, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the SEND Reforms.

Please see the job description and person specification for further details.