Paediatric Audiologist

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work in a leadership role managing the day to day. To provide a comprehensive paediatric audiology service. They will demonstrate leadership to ensure staff are working to national standards, ensure current practice is evidence based and ensure there is quality within the service. The role will require leadership on a specific area of complex paediatric audiology and day to day operational management of this area. They will offer support for more junior staff and those training and deputise in the absence of the Head(s) of Service. They will ensure the service improvements are made in an evidenced based manner, develop staff, conduct clinical audits and support IQIPs accreditation.

The postholder will:

Take supervisory and management responsibility for delegated performance management for staff grades below this grade.

Ensure timely feedback to Heads of sections on the use of consumable resources and the status of equipment identifying implications

for service delivery.

Provide day to day advice to junior staff on basic clinical problem management.

Paediatric centred audiology services provided to the Ear Nose & Throat department, on all operational sites.

The provision of specialist audiological advice to medical practitioners, on non-routine paediatric ENT cases.

Paediatric testing, including OAE/ABR and behavioural methods.

Provide specialist habilitation as appropriate, including specialist objective assessments and habiltation for complex disorders.

Personal delivery of specialist, innovative testing to individual children with non-routine histories eg complex medical conditions,

complex social needs.

Personal delivery of specialist testing to individual children in non-routine environments/patient states eg operating theatres/general

anaesthesia wards/sedation.

Provide comprehensive explanation to patients and parents/children of complex test procedures, results, implications and rehabilitative

strategies patients and adapting to their needs. In particular on occasions delivering difficult outcomes in a patient friendly and empathic

way to patients, relatives, carers and children. Direct Access Paediatric testing in both a community and acute base setting.

Delivery of multi-site neonatal screening services.

Personal responsibility for co-ordinating neonatal screening services to ensure projected coverage, yield and safety.

Specific:

1. Provision of complex & specialised areas of expert personal practice in the areas identified above.

2. Ensuring that appropriate budgetary monitoring, reporting and control measures for income and expenditure are in place that relates

specifically to the clinical service area.

3. Ensuring that stocks and supplies relevant to the clinical service area are available in a timely fashion and that stock management

conforms to relevant internal and external controls and policies.

4. Ensure effective delivery of value for money, community based and/or acute trust site, childrens hearing assessment services, through

performance audit and feedback.

5. Responsibility for the implementation of service changes to optimise the use of resources, in the community setting on a long and short-

term basis.

6. Taking joint responsibility with other team leaders for ensuring that day to day duties are covered as whole, following any unforeseen

changes in day to day departmental circumstances eg staff sickness, staff lateness.

7. Ensuring that appropriate monitoring, reporting and control measures for service level agreements are in place that relates specifically to

the clinical service area.

8. Maximising the use of deployed resources, on a day to day basis to ensure the safety and smooth running of the clinical service area.

9. Implementing recommendations and monitoring the conformance of recommendations that contribute to service design/re-design, to

enable continual service improvement. Ensuring quality management aspects including IQIPS accreditation processes.

10. Developing and implementing data gathering systems, that capture evidence based, relevant, accurate and timely data about the clinical

service area.

11. Implementing and utilising agreed quality control measures to assess key performance indicators identified in the clinical service area.

12. Producing and presenting timely short form reports about service performance/quality control of the clinical service area, based on

gathered data.

13. To promote at all times, professional and team leadership

14. Delivering services that are sensitive to and take into account, the needs of patient groups and other service partners.

15. Direct involvement in risk assessment audits and ensuring adherence to recommendations made, to ensure safe practice.

16. Direct contribution to Health and Safety management and ensuring adherence to local and national recommendations, to ensure a safe

working environment.

17. Implementing recommendations and strategies that assist with the positive delivery of the Patient Access agenda.

18. Maintenance of continual personal fitness for practice

19. Contribution to, training and education programmes for internal and external staff including the delivery of direct seminars and lectures

where appropriate.

20. Utilise systems that deliver, measure, monitor and report conformance of relevant Governance frameworks.

21. Implementation of local practice guidelines to meet local and national policy guidelines and service standards.

22. Managing the day to day effects of staff absence eg performing return to work interviews for relevant staff, co-ordinating annual leave.

23. Develop, implement and carry out audit of frameworks and systems for information management.

24. Deputise in the absence of the Head of Service.

25. Perform other professional/managerial work, as might be required, commensurate with grade.

KEY RESULT AREAS

Deliver objectives agreed at the outset of the future year being responsive to re-setting of objectives (in year) if needed.

Ensure fitness to practice, keeping a record for CPD and continuation of professional registration.

Agree and work positively towards and Personal Development Plans; agreed as part of objectives setting.

Provide and data/information that may be required as part of personal performance management and ensure this is the case for junior

staff.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Good self-motivational & team working skills. Ability to cope with conflicting demands in relation to patient care.
• Evidence of CPD. Evidence of reflective practice.
• Any relevant additional knowledge/skills, pertinent to the post applied for.

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Ability to communicate with staff and others. Be in possession of good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to accommodate change.
• Good personal time management.
• Team player.
• Ability to contribute to problem solving.

Experience

Essential

• Post qualifying, gaining relevant clinical experience. Modern working practices. Supervision of staff.
• Be able to lead and perform a comprehensive range of paediatric diagnostic assessments.
• Paediatric hearing aid fittings and verifications
• Micro budgetary management & / or administration.
• Participation with service partners.

Desirable

• Evidence of contribution to project management experience.
• Responsibilities for relevant issues outside the NHS.
• Evidence of contribution to research/audit.
• Working in multidisciplinary team.
• Line Management

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc (Hons) Audiology from an accredited University OR - Equivalent qualifications (until 2005).
• Be registered with an appropriate registration body.
• Evidence of learning from other professionally appropriate sources, supervisory experience.
• Evidence of CPD. Evidence of reflective practice.
• Any relevant additional knowledge/skills, pertinent to the post applied for

Desirable

• Evidence of learning from relevant professional courses/seminars.
• HTS qualification
• Management qualifications
• MSc in Audiology or equivalent. Trainers/Assessors award
• Working in multidisciplinary teams

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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