Audiology Clinical Lead


Location
Eastbourne, England
Salary
£49,387 - £56,515 pro rata, per annum
Profession
Health science services
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
18 Sep 2026
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
04 Sep 2026
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Job requirements

Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.

Essential

8 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • clinical

    3 years post grad experience or equivalent clinical experience

  • clinical

    expereince working in complex adult audiology

  • clinical

    delivering audit and action plans

  • clinical

    delivering service development

  • clinical

    leading individuals

  • Qualifications

    Registered with HCPC or AHCS

  • Qualifications

    MSc or BAAT 1&2 with equivalent MSc level training

  • Qualifications

    3 years post grad clinical experience

Desirable

5 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • clinical

    presenting research

  • clinical

    leading teams

  • clinical

    vestibular MDT

  • Qualifications

    Clinical Scientist (Audiology)

  • Qualifications

    Leadership training

Job overview

This is an opportunity for an experienced Clinical Scientist or Audiologist to join our audiology team as a Band 7 Clinical Lead, specialising in adult audiology services. You will be someone who is experienced in delivering high standards of care for adult patients in complex and non-complex pathways and keen to develop leadership skills, inspiring the service to provide excellent care. This is a role for someone who enjoys being part of service development and change, improving the lives of our patients across East Sussex.

You will be part of the senior leadership team within the audiology service. Whilst you may not have experience in a leadership role, you will understand the principles of good clinical leadership and operational management and be willing to develop those skills.

You will have experience of delivering clinical audit, service evaluation and the ability to share learning and imbed change. You will have a working knowledge of BSA and BAA guidance and work with the team to imbed evidence based practice within the day to day work. You will also be able to support the lead team to maintain our paediatric UKAS IQIPs registration and achieve UKAS IQIPs accreditation for our adult services.

This role is base at our Park Practice base in Eastbourne, however we provide services across all of East Sussex, so some cross site travel is required.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Leadership

Operational Leadership

Activity reporting and optimising clinical capacity

Risk management

equipment management

rota design and maintenance

Audit and service evaluation, action planning and implementation.

IQIPs accreditation

Line management

staff performance management

supporting students

Managing and resolving complaints

Stock management

Working with stakeholders such as GPs and voluntary sector

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached.

If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.

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.

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This advert is for Audiology Clinical Lead with East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust in Eastbourne, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Health science services role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata, per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 18 Sep 2026.

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