Paediatric Audiology Lead

Job overview

This is an exciting and challenging role which covers adult and paediatric clinical, management and leadership requirements for IQIPS accreditation.

You must be able to demonstrate excellent team working and leadership qualities as well as a high level of clinical and communication skills. You will need to be able to develop good working relationships at all levels and liaise effectively with a wide range of clinicians and managers as well as patients and families.

Whilst working with the Trust you will receive considerable support and opportunities to develop your clinical, management and leadership skills.

Main duties of the job

Planning and delivering the necessary requirements for IQIPS accreditation and implementing the necessary continuous improvement whilst directly supporting the Head of Audiology in the day-to-day delivery  of the service.

Manage own areas of responsibility on a day to day basis. Make senior level decisions, provide leadership and negotiate at a senior level on a range of subjects relating to the service.

With the support of the Head of Audiology, resolve service wide issues relating to staff performance, achievement of targets and capacity.

Work closely with colleagues in Outpatients and wards to ensure delivery of activity and waiting time targets.

Identify and address service pressures, using own judgement to respond and deal with a range of routine and urgent situations and developments. This will require the planning, formulation, monitoring and review of action plans, policies and strategies.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

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