Principial Paediatric Audiologist

Job overview

Due to the exciting  call to motherhood  -we are now seeking a passionate clinician to join our UKAS accredited  team and  immerse themselves into 12 months of maternity cover of one of our Principal Paediatric Audiologists.

The department provides a comprehensive diagnostic and rehabilitation for children, covering both secondary and tertiary care.

The postholder will be expected to support in maintaining  IQIPS accreditation, by helping to implement QA processes and help with authoring and implementing protocols and SOPs.

Predominantly a clinical role, this will keep you busy with a full range of paediatric assessment and (re) habilitation challenges, together with some delegated service development and/or management responsibilities. This interesting specialist role will involve working with babies, children and families in our family-friendly multi-disciplinary centre.

You should be able to provide evidence based practice in a patient-centred way, and value supporting children and families through the wider patient journey. You will be confident working with children, both autonomously and as a flexible team-member. The role demands enhanced experience of working in paediatric audiology (in both behavioural and ideally electro-physiological assessment as well as re-habilitation)

Main duties of the job

To perform specialist diagnostic audiological procedures and provide a comprehensive specialist hearing aid service to children, including determining care plans for individual patients, and involving carers and families as appropriate.

To assist with the day-to-day management of the London North West University Healthcare  Paediatric Audiology service.

To take an active role in areas of clinical audit, research and clinical governance for the Audiology service, which may include designing and completing audits within own field, participating in data collection for larger projects, and contributing to the development of evidence based protocols.

To plan and prioritise elements of own workload, within the framework of service delivery priorities as defined by the Clinical Lead and Head of Service, and supervise the work of other members of the team as appropriate, including junior audiologists, trainees and students.

To support IQIPs accreditation for the service

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Assist the Head of Service and Clinical Lead to develop and adapt the service according to changing criteria and demographics.
• Assist the Head of Service and Clinical Lead to manage changes in practice and establish new systems of working when necessary.
• Act as a point of contact for more junior staff within the service.
• Provide clinical supervision within specialist area(s)
• Mentor and / or act as supervisor for trainee staff as required
• In conjunction with the Head of Service and Clinical Lead be responsible for leading aspects of a sub-section of the service

For full role duties and responsibilities please see attached Job Description and Person Specification