Job Introduction
Our Children's Community Audiology Service are recruiting a Band 6 Specialist Paediatric Audiologist to join our team. In this role you will be working as part of the diagnostic service supporting children and young people within community clinics in B&NES, Somerset and Wiltshire.
Our team is supportive, enthusiastic and dedicated to providing an excellent level of care to our service users and have just received funding for purchasing sensory equipment and toys to make our service more accessible for children with complex needs
This is a flexible role Monday – Friday between the hours of 8am – 5pm with the ability to complete administration from home.
Main Responsibility
As a Band 6 Specialist Paediatric Audiologist you will hold a senior role within the service and be responsible for:
- Having clinical and supervision responsibilities of non-registered colleagues including completing 1-2-1’s and appraisals
- Being involved in auditing and evaluating the current service as well as working to further develop the service provided.
- Working with audiology colleagues from the local acute trust in delivering the multi-disciplinary preschool hearing aid clinic, taking the lead role in that clinic
- Writing appropriate clear and concise reports to communicate test findings to the referring professional and others Involved In the care of the child, including the parent/carer
- Planning and prioritising own administrative workload, and manage time effectively
- Communicating effectively with children, young people and families who may have hearing loss
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a BSc in Audiology with evidence of M-Level training in paediatric audiology, MSc in Audiology or Clinical Science (audiology modality) or equivalent and be registered with the HCPC.
As this is a community role, you will have a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.
We recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication and so would welcome applications from enthusiastic, innovative individuals with an interest in developing their clinical and leadership skills and knowledge.
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Package Description
As a Specialist Paediatric Audiologist, you’ll be part of our valued team at Bath
You will feel valued as a Specialist Paediatric Audiologist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £32,306 - £39,027 (band 6) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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