New Role Development: Children and Young Peoples Key Worker

A suitably well-appointed and skilled supplier is sought to work with system partners across health, education, local authorities and with families and carers at a national and regional level to facilitate the process of understanding the current service delivery landscape, identification of good practice and challenges through to development of a service specification and identification of skills, competencies and training in relation to the new Children and Young People's (CYP) Learning Disability and Autism key worker roles as articulated in the NHS Long Term Plan.

The supplier will then be required to translate the outputs of this process into suitable materials that can be used to develop nationally and implement the role locally. Such materials would include but are not limited to, role descriptions with competencies, national occupational standards mapped, service model descriptions/case studies, workforce role templates and an implementation guide(s).

There will be two elements to the new CYP key worker roles; one is likely to be operating in a secondary care setting and will focus on enabling rapid, appropriate and effective discharge of children and young people into the community setting through management of secondary/primary care interface and working with community partners across the system and families and carers; the other will be a community focused approach working with children and young people with a learning disability or autism or both, identified as having the most complex needs in the local community to ensure care and support is coordinated and