Head of Audiological Services

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached full job description and person specification.

Continually developing, delivering, and maintaining high standards
• Streamlining and integrating pathways to provide patients with an exceptionally high-quality service which is a shared experience for all patients across the locations
• Providing opportunities for the development of others, ensuring that high quality systems of training, supervision and governance are in place to support patient safety through safe and effective care
• Ensuring that national targets and standards are met
• Building trust and developing relationships to ensure service user involvement
• Oversee data quality accuracy, ensuring that information is managed and applied appropriately and effectively
• Overall responsibility for the finances across all aspects of the service
• Representing Bedfordshire Hospitals at a national level, ensuring the service is up to date with recent initiatives and developments
• Ensure accreditation across the services for the UKAS national quality IQIPS programme; overseeing integrated governance policies, procedures and structures are put in place and adhered to, being ultimately responsible for the Risk Management of the entire service.
• To perform the role of a non-medical Consultant; providing highly specialist advice.
• Developing and maintaining a clinical research portfolio for the service. Interpreting current research and its impact on service delivery
• Liaising with Newborn hearing screening services

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MSc in Audiology
• Eligibility to join Consultant Clinical Scientist Register

Desirable criteria

• Registered as a Consultant Clinical Scientist with HCPC

Experience

Essential criteria

• Considerable experience providing Audiology services
• Substantial demonstrable experience of leading and working effectively in a multi-professional environment
• Experience of teaching, training and supervising staff and students

Desirable criteria

• Experience in implementing large scale operational and cultural change and facilitating others to achieve change
• Experience assessing/examining for Audiology professional and academic bodies

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Expert knowledge across a broad area of Audiological procedures with underpinning specialist theoretical training
• In depth knowledge and understanding of the issues currently facing Audiology services

Desirable criteria

• Detailed knowledge and experience of activity management

personal skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to manage conflict and barriers to acceptance and understanding.
• Drive and determination to make improvements

Desirable criteria

• Formalised counselling/mentor skills

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• JD Head of Audiological Services (PDF, 248.6KB)
• PS Head of Audiological Services (PDF, 160.4KB)
• FA Head of Audiological Services (PDF, 144.4KB)
• L&D Hospital site map (PDF, 96.8KB)
• Disclosure & Barring Information and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 78.5KB)
• Staff Diversity Network (PDF, 140.3KB)
• Information for Disabled Applicants (PDF, 98.7KB)
• Staff Benefits (PNG, 1.6MB)