Head of Hearing and Balance Service | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2024 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5UP |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6235687/432-HR108-24 |
Summary
ESNEFT are looking for an effective leader to be Head of Service having responsibility for the leadership, provision and development of Hearing and Balance Services across North East Essex and East Suffolk to ensure the Trust meets NHS objectives and targets and provides a first class service to its patients.
You will be responsible for the efficient and effective use of resources including budgetary management, training, and development and managing staffing which include a multi-disciplinary team of Audiologists, Hearing Therapists and Administrative Staff. The two sites based at Ipswich Hospital and Colchester Hospital work closely together and the Trust is looking to further strengthen unification of the Teams, their working practices and clinical excellence.
You will be an experienced clinician undertaking highly specialist clinical work. You will have experience of staff management and committed to staff development and wellbeing. You will enable service delivery in accordance with the Trusts business objectives, ensuring an innovative, integrated, multidisciplinary service in partnership with the Trusts stakeholders.
You will have responsibility for the leadership, provision and development of both Hearing and Balance Services across East Suffolk and North East Essex to ensure the Trust meets NHS objectives and targets and provides a first class service to its patients. You will be responsible for the efficient and effective use of resources including budgetary management, training, and development and managing staffing which include a multi-disciplinary team of Audiologists, Hearing Therapists and Administrative Staff
The Head of Service aims to:
Set the strategic direction for Hearing and Balance Services within the Trust and lead the modernisation and redesign of these services in the Trust.
Deliver the service in accordance with the Trust business objectives and philosophy , ensuring the development of an innovative, integrated and multidisciplinary service in partnership with the appropriate stakeholders
You will undertake some clinical duties.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024