Job summary
Employer heading
Head of Audiology
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
This is a senior clinical management position within the Trust, where the post holder is accountable for all resources and services provided by Audiology, to include all Adult and Paediatric service provision across the 3 Campuses of Nottingham University Hospital and multiple sites within the community. This includes the overall strategic, financial and operational management of scientific, rehabilitative and support services in line with Divisional, Organisational and National strategy and developments. It includes Performance targets (DM01) and waiting list management. In addition the post holder will provide scientific and clinical leadership across the service operating in a Consultant Healthcare Scientist level role accounting for approximately 30-40% of the workload.
Main duties of the job
As a Consultant level clinician take ultimate accountability for the clinical and scientific leadership and decisions within the Audiology Service. They will undertake, as required, the full range of advanced adult and paediatric audiological assessments, including advanced audio-vestibular testing. The post holder will take overall responsibility for the Audiology clinical caseload and provide professional, scientific and technical advice on service development and delivery to the division and other agencies as required.
Working for our organisation
Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.
With more than 19,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond.
We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes. We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.
As a teaching hospital, we are instrumental in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. We are proud of our strong relationships with universities across the East Midlands, including the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Indu Hari
- Job title
- Directorate General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Claire Benton
Head of Audiology
Audiology
Ropewalk House
113 The RopewalkNottingham
NG1 5DU
0115 9485550Internal 88550
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