Specialist Paediatric Audiologist (XR07)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 Hydref 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £47,810.00 i £54,710.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9298-HAN-121 |
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The post holder will work in a leadership role managing the day to day. To provide a comprehensive paediatric audiology service. They will demonstrate leadership to ensure staff are working to national standards, ensure current practice is evidence based and ensure there is quality within the service. The role will require leadership on a specific area of complex paediatric audiology and day to day operational management of this area. They will offer support for more junior staff and those training and deputise in the absence of the Head(s) of Service. They will ensure the service improvements are made in an evidenced based manner, develop staff, conduct clinical audits and support IQIPs accreditation. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY The postholder will: Take supervisory and management responsibility for delegated performance management for staff grades below this grade. Ensure timely feedback to Heads of sections on the use of consumable resources and the status of equipment identifying implications for service delivery. Provide day to day advice to junior staff on basic clinical problem management. Paediatric centred audiology services provided to the Ear Nose & Throat department, on all operational sites. The provision of specialist audiological advice to medical practitioners, on non-routine paediatric ENT cases. Paediatric testing, including OAE/ABR and behavioural methods. Provide specialist habilitation as appropriate, including specialist objective assessments and habiltation for complex disorders. Personal delivery of specialist, innovative testing to individual children with non-routine histories eg complex medical conditions, complex social needs. Personal delivery of specialist testing to individual children in non-routine environments/patient states eg operating theatres/general anaesthesia wards/sedation. Provide comprehensive explanation to patients and parents/children of complex test procedures, results, implications and rehabilitative strategies patients and adapting to their needs. In particular on occasions delivering difficult outcomes in a patient friendly and empathic way to patients, relatives, carers and children. Direct Access Paediatric testing in both a community and acute base setting. Delivery of multi-site neonatal screening services. Personal responsibility for co-ordinating neonatal screening services to ensure projected coverage, yield and safety. Specific: 1. Provision of complex & specialised areas of expert personal practice in the areas identified above. 2. Ensuring that appropriate budgetary monitoring, reporting and control measures for income and expenditure are in place that relates specifically to the clinical service area. 3. Ensuring that stocks and supplies relevant to the clinical service area are available in a timely fashion and that stock management conforms to relevant internal and external controls and policies. 4. Ensure effective delivery of value for money, community based and/or acute trust site, childrens hearing assessment services, through performance audit and feedback. 5. Responsibility for the implementation of service changes to optimise the use of resources, in the community setting on a long and short-term basis. 6. Taking joint responsibility with other team leaders for ensuring that day to day duties are covered as whole, following any unforeseen changes in day to day departmental circumstances eg staff sickness, staff lateness. 7. Ensuring that appropriate monitoring, reporting and control measures for service level agreements are in place that relates specifically to the clinical service area. 8. Maximising the use of deployed resources, on a day to day basis to ensure the safety and smooth running of the clinical service area. 9. Implementing recommendations and monitoring the conformance of recommendations that contribute to service design/re-design, to enable continual service improvement. Ensuring quality management aspects including IQIPS accreditation processes. 10. Developing and implementing data gathering systems, that capture evidence based, relevant, accurate and timely data about the clinical service area. 11. Implementing and utilising agreed quality control measures to assess key performance indicators identified in the clinical service area. 12. Producing and presenting timely short form reports about service performance/quality control of the clinical service area, based on gathered data. 13. To promote at all times, professional and team leadership 14. Delivering services that are sensitive to and take into account, the needs of patient groups and other service partners. 15. Direct involvement in risk assessment audits and ensuring adherence to recommendations made, to ensure safe practice. 16. Direct contribution to Health and Safety management and ensuring adherence to local and national recommendations, to ensure a safe working environment. 17. Implementing recommendations and strategies that assist with the positive delivery of the Patient Access agenda. 18. Maintenance of continual personal fitness for practice 19. Contribution to, training and education programmes for internal and external staff including the delivery of direct seminars and lectures where appropriate. 20. Utilise systems that deliver, measure, monitor and report conformance of relevant Governance frameworks. 21. Implementation of local practice guidelines to meet local and national policy guidelines and service standards. 22. Managing the day to day effects of staff absence eg performing return to work interviews for relevant staff, co-ordinating annual leave. 23. Develop, implement and carry out audit of frameworks and systems for information management. 24. Deputise in the absence of the Head of Service. 25. Perform other professional/managerial work, as might be required, commensurate with grade KEY RESULT AREAS Deliver objectives agreed at the outset of the future year being responsive to re-setting of objectives (in year) if needed. Ensure fitness to practice, keeping a record for CPD and continuation of professional registration Agree and work positively towards and Personal Development Plans; agreed as part of objectives setting. Provide and data/information that may be required as part of personal performance management and ensure this is the case for junior staff.