Job summary
- Main area
- Audiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Role is for 5 days per week but flexible options are available to deliver the role in 4 longer days.)
- Job ref
- 423-7134255
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Audiology Clinical Service Manager (Band 8a)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced Audiologist (Healthcare Scientist or Clinical Scientist) who is ready for a new challenge within NHS health care leadership as our new Band 8a Audiology Clinical Service Manager.
We invite applications from candidates interested in joining our diagnostics team to lead and deliver our vision for outstanding physiological science services in Audiology for local people. We strive to create excellent opportunities for a great work-life balance.
We are a Foundation Trust providing acute and specialist outreach services for local people who live in the area, extending from the fringes of North Bradford to parts of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. We serve a varied population from rural to inner city areas. Our main hospital, which is Airedale General Hospital, is situated in the rolling countryside between Skipton and Keighley.
Our Audiology Department offers diagnostic and rehabilitative services to both adults and paediatric patients including Newborn Hearing Screening from our main hospital site and at other locations across the community. Outreach clinics are undertaken at Skipton, Keighley, Ilkley, Bingley and Settle.
Main duties of the job
The role will include clinical leadership of the Audiology Department (both adults and paediatrics) and the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) delivered by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.
This role would be clinically responsible for all aspects of Audiology service delivery and would require a practicing audiologist with up-to-date clinical skills and expertise in a wide range of audiological procedures.
As the Clinical Service Manager for the Audiology services including NHSP (adults and children), this role is expected to :
· be clinically accountable for the Audiology service, including leading on clinical governance within the department.
· manage the Audiology teams, including recruitment, appraisal, CPD and performance
· act as Team Leader for NHSP provision
· be responsible for policy and service development
· be responsible for the budget and physical resources
· provide leadership cover for wider diagnostic services
· To provide high specialist care in audiology to both adult and paediatric patients
· provide advice to the Audiology team, and other professionals involved in the patients care such as school nurses, teachers, and doctors.
· deliver training for Audiologists, and other professions
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification for further information. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the recruiting manager.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the NHS Constitution & ‘Understanding the New NHS’
- Detailed knowledge of national guidelines for NHSP, paediatric audiology and related NICE guidelines.
- Detailed knowledge and significant recent practical experience of hearing aid verification methods, such as real ear measures, questionnaire assessment and speech
- Understanding of budget and resource management
- Strong understanding of clinical governance and risk management
- Good understanding of the Diagnostics Waiting Times and Activity (DM01) and Referral to Treatment (RTT) constitutional operational performance standards.
Desirable criteria
- Detailed knowledge of hearing aid selection, fitting and verification in newborn babies.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent IT skills e.g. word processing, email, databases
- Effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including communicating factual information to patients / carers
- Effective team and organisation skills
- Excellent communication skills to enable building good rapport with colleagues and patients.
- Excellent leadership and team working skills.
- Ability to cope with frequent interruptions.
- Ability to deliver work to an agreed timescale and meet tight deadlines.
- Organisational skills with the ability to provide excellent support to both student and newly qualified audiologists.
- Demonstrate good written and verbal communication skills
- Must have constructive, inquiring, flexible approach to others and their work
- Firm knowledge of audiological patient management systems and information technology.
Desirable criteria
- Previous knowledge of using Audiology patient management systems (specifically Audit Base)
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MSc in Audiology or equivalent
- BAA Higher Training Scheme Certificate of Clinical Competence in 3 or more areas or equivalent
- Registered as one of the following (or eligible for registration): HCPC as a Clinical Scientist , RCCP as a Clinical Physiologist , AHCS as a Healthcare Scientist
- Professional Qualification in Audiology (BAAT Part I and II).
- Must be willing to participate in any relevant training identified to develop skills required to carry out duties
Desirable criteria
- Leadership or Management qualification
- Clinical Educators qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in both Paediatric and Adult clinical area
- Experience of joint working with colleagues for other agencies, e.g. education and social care
- Experience of leading service developments.
- Experience of staff management, including appraisal
- Significant and recent experience in paediatric rehabilitation of infants and pre-school children.
- Significant and recent experience in the assessment of complex and non-routine children, e.g. those with complex disabilities, challenging behaviours.
- Experience of organising and prioritising own workload
- Experience of working as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- Experience in chairing meetings
- Significant and recent experience in objective testing of newborn babies following NHSP
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Displays care, compassion, sensitivity and responsiveness to other peoples’ feelings and needs
- Able to work as part of a team, co-operating to work together and in conjunction with others and willing to help and assist wherever possible and appropriate appreciating the value of diversity in the workplace
- Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation and with patients and their carers
- Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload.
- Positive and flexible attitude to dealing with change; able to respond to the changing needs of the patient in an appropriate and timely manner; willing to change and accept change and to explore new approaches and ways of doing things
- Highly motivated and reliable
- Demonstrates right care values consistent with those of the Trust
- Has a high level of personal integrity; able to adhere to standards of conduct based on a culture of equality and fairness
Other
Essential criteria
- Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Heidi Thomas
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Ops - Surgery & Diagnostics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294012
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