Service Lead for Paediatric Audiology

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust have an exciting new opportunity for a Band 8a Service Lead within Paediatric Audiology. If you are looking for an opportunity that will be integral to the large-scale transformation of the audiology services at Lister Hospital, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.

We are looking for a highly skilled and enthusiastic Audiologist to join our team as we embark on a significant period of resetting and improvement in our delivery of care.

The ideal candidate will have extensive clinical skills within Audiology with specialist experience within paediatrics. You should be able to work autonomously in a clinical setting, seeing the most complex paediatric cases, and by being a key part of the embedding of continuous improvement of culture across the service.

This opportunity will be ideal for someone ready to make that step into a senior leadership role, or for an established clinical lead who would like to be part of this exciting time of large-scale transformation in our audiology services and the care we provide for those with hearing difficulties.

In return you will become part of a proactive and enthusiastic senior leadership team, given support by the Head of service, and given the opportunity to deliver care in both an innovative and patient focussed manner.

This position offers a £2,500 welcome payment, this is payable upon starting ( conditions apply).

Main duties of the job

Our Values are Include, Respect, and Improve and this is a fundamental to how we want to provide our services and care for our staff and colleagues.

Service Lead for Adult or Paediatric Audiology will not only help deliver several specific projects and work streams but more importantly will support embedding a culture of continuous improvement across the Audiology Department

To have overall responsibility for ensuring the effective delivery of the Audiology service to nationally agreed levels of activity and quality, whilst developing a service culture where everyone is valued will be a key aspect in delivering success to this role.

Using modernising referral pathways, leading on key projects with the clinical director and general manager to support improved delivery of clinical services and support implementation of renewed processes which further improve patient care within the department.

Fulfil the role of Team Leader for ENHT Newborn Hearing Screening Programme.

The field of Audiology is not without significant challenges. This is an excellent post to become a Clinician who can shape and build future services that will positively impact patients of all ages.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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