Audiology Clinical Service Manager (Band 8a)

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Audiologist (Healthcare Scientist or Clinical Scientist) who is ready for a new challenge within NHS health care leadership as our new Band 8a Audiology Clinical Service Manager.

We invite applications from candidates interested in joining our diagnostics team to lead and deliver our vision for outstanding physiological science services in Audiology for local people. We strive to create excellent opportunities for a great work-life balance.

We are a Foundation Trust providing acute and specialist outreach services for local people who live in the area, extending from the fringes of North Bradford to parts of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. We serve a varied population from rural to inner city areas. Our main hospital, which is Airedale General Hospital, is situated in the rolling countryside between Skipton and Keighley.

Our Audiology Department offers diagnostic and rehabilitative services to both adults and paediatric patients including Newborn Hearing Screening from our main hospital site and at other locations across the community.  Outreach clinics are undertaken at Skipton, Keighley, Ilkley, Bingley and Settle.

Main duties of the job

The role will include clinical leadership of the Audiology Department (both adults and paediatrics) and the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) delivered by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

This role would be clinically responsible for all aspects of Audiology service delivery and would require a practicing audiologist with up-to-date clinical skills and expertise in a wide range of audiological procedures.

As the Clinical Service Manager for the Audiology services including NHSP (adults and children), this role is expected to :

• be clinically accountable for the Audiology service, including leading on clinical governance within the department.
• manage the Audiology teams, including recruitment, appraisal, CPD and performance
• act as Team Leader for NHSP provision
• be responsible for policy and service development
• be responsible for the budget and physical resources
• provide leadership cover for wider diagnostic services
• To provide high specialist care in audiology to both adult and paediatric patients
• provide advice to the Audiology team, and other professionals involved in the patients care such as school nurses, teachers, and doctors.
• deliver training for Audiologists, and other professions

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job description and person specification for further information. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the recruiting manager.