Paediatric Audiologist Training Post

Hearingand Balance Service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals are looking for a Band 5Audiologist who would like to train into paediatrics. This will initiallystart as a band 5 role and then upon successful completion of your traininginto paediatrics it will become a band 6 role. Based in a newly developeddepartment at Seacroft Hospital just outside Leeds City Centre the Hearingand Balance Service provides modern facilities and a comprehensive range ofservices, across multiple sites for patients of all ages includingimplantable devices and vestibular assessments. Due to the range of servicesprovided, opportunities exist for training and development into specialistareas and staff can be supported through the Higher Training Scheme.

TheHearing and Balance Service offers an open and inclusive culture for itsstaff, valuing the input from the whole team to help guide and shape thedelivery of the service.

Thisrole includes access to valuable training and development opportunities tosupport you in your position. As thetraining represents a significant investment by the organisation, successfulcandidates will be required to sign a training agreement prior to commencingthe Paediatric Training role.

Main duties of the job

Thepost holder will work within a multidisciplinary team across multiple sitesto provide a comprehensive paediatric diagnostic and habilitation service forchildren & their families with hearing difficulties. The paediatric teamwork as autonomous practioners within the service and are to be able todevelop, lead improvements, maximising the benefit for patients. You will beperforming a wide range of diagnostic testing on all patient groups, inaddition to providing highly effective habilitation and on-going maintenancecare plans for patients with complex hearing losses, tinnitus, patients withBone Anchored Hearing Aids, ENT patients and Oncology patients. There isscope to support the department in many exciting initiatives and develop theservice with continuous improvement cycles. The department are also workingtowards IQIPs accreditation

About us

LeedsTeaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest acute hospitaltrusts in the UK. Every year, LTHT provides healthcare and specialistservices for people from the city of Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber andbeyond. The Trust plays an important role in the training and education. LTHTis rated as a good hospital Trust by the Care Quality Commission, and has astrategy to continue improving to provide outstanding care for patients. Careand clinical expertise is spread over several hospitals and medicalfacilities.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please contact the named personif you have any question

Job responsibilities

Thepost holder works in close co-operation with the Team Leaders in the deliveryof day to day services and the personal development of specialisation.

Thepost-holder will:

Aftertraining undertake a senior but generalist role within the Hearing &Balance Centre.

Undertakea broad range of service provision with elements of routine and non- routinetasks within the department.

Withtraining develop specialist skills in sub-specialist area/s of service thatreflect key elements of non- routine tasks.

Receivethe personal development support of the relevant Team Leader/s insub-specialising.

Thepost-holder will:

Takesupervisory responsibility for delegated performance management for staffgrades, below this grade, including trainees on clinical placement.

Ensuretimely feedback to Team leaders on the use of consumable resources and thestatus of equipment following stage A checks, problem evaluating servicedelivery issues, associated with equipment downtime.

Takeresponsibility for the delivery of an episode of clinical care to individualpatients and manage the care plan effectively.

Provideday to day advice to junior staff on basic clinical problem management.

Person Specification Experience

• Experience of working within a clinical setting e.g. during the degree programme

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Audiology from an accredited University OR Equivalent qualifications (until 2005).
• Be registered with an appropriate registration body

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.