Head of Service - Audiology

at  East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

We are recruiting for a Head of Service - Audiology who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Are you committed to continuous improvement? Do you have senior clinical leadership experience that will support change? Are you confident in working in complex environments? if so, we have an exacting opportunity to join East & North Herts as the Head of Service for Audiology.
The post holder will be the consultant level healthcare science leader of the Audiology service, with responsibility for the delivery, quality assurance and on-going development of services, working across our four sites.
The Head of Service will work with the Corporate Leads, General Managers, Clinical Directors, Service Managers to enable the identification, scoping, agreement and delivery of specific quality and efficiency improvement projects and programmes which help to deliver a culture of continuous improvement within the Audiology Department including the Newborn Screening Service.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
You will support the senior management team to improve access to the full range of audiology services. This will include participating in the development and implementation of national and local policy across the department to ensure that patients receive the highest quality of evidence-based care.
You will work to modernise referral pathways, leading on key projects with the clinical director and general manager to support improved delivery of clinical services and support implementation of renewed processes which further improve patient care within the department.
Professional leadership of healthcare science staff within the Audiology service
Quality assurance and clinical governance
Financial integrity
Personnel management
Progression and development
Recruitment
Referral to treatment compliance and reporting
Innovation and research
Audit and delivery of Trust policies and procedures of the department
Development of clinical pathways to ensure lean working with efficient use of resources.
Procurement contracts and efficient purchasing
Support for allied activity, including ENT
Promote the application of good scientific practice (as defined by the Academy of Healthcare Science) across the service.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

WE RUN THE FOLLOWING HOSPITALS:

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role

Please refer the Job description for details