Paediatric Audiology Lead (Band 8a) - Audiology - Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust for a Clinical Lead role at Wycombe Hospital. You will play a key part in ensuring IQIPS accreditation standards are met while fostering teamwork and leadership in a supportive environment. The position offers impressive benefits including flexible working, a generous annual leave entitlement, and access to NHS discount schemes.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Generous annual leave entitlement

NHS pension scheme

Access to NHS discount schemes

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• 6 years post-qualification experience required.
• 3 years senior clinical experience with management responsibilities.
• Active role in a professional body.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver requirements for IQIPS accreditation.
• Manage own areas of responsibility and make senior level decisions.
• Resolve service-wide issues and work closely with colleagues.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Communication

Decision Making

Clinical Skills

IT Skills

Education

MSc Audiology or equivalent M level qualification

Professional Registration with HCPC/RCCP or AHCS

IQIPS Assessor Training

Job description

Site Wycombe Hospital Town High Wycombe Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 08/06/2025 23:59

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [e-mail] or phone [phone].

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

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.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity withinourBHT familyimprovespositive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

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.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number.

Person specification

Education

• MSc Audiology or equivalent M level qualification with Clinical training equivalent to CAC, STP or BAA HTTS.
• Professional Registration with HCPC/RCCP or AHCS.
• IQIPS Assessor Training.

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to include ability to communicate with the hearing impaired and carers in an emotional state, and deal with staff problems.
• Ability to cope with rare exposure to distressing and emotional circumstances within clinical and staff setting.
• Excellent written communications skills.
• Ability to cope with decision making under pressure.
• Good leadership skills including motivation, delegation and change management experience.
• Friendly, courteous and approachable.
• A self -motivated team player.
• Mature, confident, diplomatic.
• Flexible and positive approach to change as dictated by service need.
• Ability to make judgements involving complex facts which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of data and options
• Ability to maintain prolonged concentration in both clinical and managerial roles
• Good level of IT skills to include word processing, use of spreadsheets and databases
• Ability to cope with clinical decision making under pressure

Experience

• Minimum of 6 years post qualification
• Minimum of 3 years senior clinical experience with management responsibilities
• Member of a professional body
• Taking an active role in a professional body, committee or organisation
• Good knowledge of a wide range of hearing aids
• Experience of Auditbase or similar system
• Experience of the service responsibilities for paediatric services
• Experience of leading or managing IQIPS accreditation
• Minimum of 4 years paediatric audiology clinical experience
• Minimum of 2 years adult clinical experience
• Good awareness of national issues and development areas of Audiology including outside of their specialism area
• Significant experience of clinical supervision and line management of staff

PPE requirements:Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.