Audiology Clinical Lead

Job description

We are proud to provide 'Outstanding' care and be a great place to work.

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust provides safe, compassionate and high quality hospital and community care to the half a million people living in East Sussex and those who visit our local area.

We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex with an annual income of £700 million and we are the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex.

Our extensive health services are provided by over 8,000+ dedicated members of staff working from two acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites across East Sussex, and in people's own homes.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated us as 'Good' overall, and 'Outstanding' for being Caring and Effective. The Conquest Hospital in Hastings and our Community Services were rated 'Outstanding' and Eastbourne DGH was rated 'Good' Our two acute hospitals have Emergency Departments and provide 24 hour a day care, offering a comprehensive range of surgical, medical, outpatient and maternity services, supported by a full range of diagnostic and therapy services.

Job overview

This is an opportunity for an experienced Clinical Scientist or Audiologist to join our audiology team supporting patients across East Sussex 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 their leadership skills and inspire 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 have sufficient post qualification clinical experience to enable you to effectively deliver and provide the clinical leadership required to enable the team maintain quality and activity performance. 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 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.

You will be either a Clinical Scientist or audiologist able to complete the Clinical Scientist equivalency pathway.

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

Working for our organisation

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.

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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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered with HCPC or AHCS
• MSc or BAAT 1&2 with equivalent MSc level training
• 3 years post grad clinical experience

Desirable criteria

• Clinical Scientist (Audiology)
• Leadership training

clinical

Essential criteria

• 3 years post grad experience or equivalent clinical experience
• expereince working in complex adult audiology
• delivering audit and action plans
• delivering service development
• leading individuals

Desirable criteria

• presenting research
• leading teams
• vestibular MDT

Patients come first at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

Our vision is to be:

• The healthcare provider of first choice for the people of East Sussex.

Our mission is to:

• Deliver better health outcomes and an excellent experience for everyone we provide with healthcare services.

Our strategic objectives are to:

• Improve quality and clinical outcomes by ensuring that safe patient care is our highest priority.
• Play a leading role in local partnerships to meet the needs of our local population and improve and enhance patients' experiences.
• Use our resources efficiently and effectively for the benefit of our patients and their care to ensure our services are clinically, operationally and financially sustainable.

Our aims are that all services delivered by the Trust are:

• Safe
• Effective
• Caring
• Responsive and
• Well led

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