Senior Audiologist inBrighton inBrighton PUBLISHED
SUN 3 DEC 2023
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To provide paediatric audiological assessment and appropriate management interventions for children within the local area.
- To work collaboratively as part of a team and to make autonomous decisions when working alone.
- To provide complex and sensitive advice to families regarding their childs hearing. Such advice might be delivered within an emotive atmosphere. To develop and advise on interventions and (re)habilitation programmes based upon autonomous clinical opinion, which may involve referral onwards to relevant intervention programmes.
- To be able to communicate with other professionals effectively to achieve a clear multi-disciplinary approach for the patient. This may involve other health professionals, education services or social services.
- Responsible for working within the paediatric team to deliver the clinical direction of the service, seeing children and young adults in single and joint clinician clinics, within the boundaries set by the Head of Audiology. Some of this clinical work to include lone working at off sites.
- To be aware of the referral-to-treatment position and DNA rates of the paediatric team and ensure that the team leads are appraised of threats to breaching.
- Contributes to the continuous development of verification and validation methods.
- Active contributor to audit, development and research programmes in Audiology for UHS. Maintenance of own audit activity as requirement for continued registration with regulatory bodies.
- Possibility of working within the adult team, depending on service needs.
Please see job description & person specs for full details.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic, hardworking and committedclinicians in the Paediatric Audiology team at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Audiology service based in Brighton, in our new, state-of-the-art paediatric department.
This is a full-time post to collaboratively deliver our paediatric Audiology services.
The service focuses on the assessment and rehabilitation ofpatients with deafness, vestibular conditions, tinnitus and auditory processing disorder.We are the regional centre for Bone Conduction and Middle Ear Implants.
Within this role there may also be an opportunity to be involved in the adult rehabilitation team.
The successful candidate will be expected to have a high level of clinical expertise and the interpersonal skills, compassion and sensitivity to build positive and trusting relationships with patients, families and carers, and the team.
In return, we can offer opportunities for your professional development and a supportive, responsive team to work within.
- To provide paediatric audiological assessment and appropriate management interventions for children within the local area.
- To work collaboratively as part of a team and to make autonomous decisions when working alone.
- To provide complex and sensitive advice to families regarding their child's hearing. Such advice might be delivered within an emotive atmosphere. To develop and advise on interventions and (re)habilitation programmes based upon autonomous clinical opinion, which may involve referral onwards to relevant intervention programmes.
- Responsible for working within the paediatric team to deliver the clinical direction of the service, seeing children and young adults in single and joint clinician clinics, within the boundaries set by the Head of Audiology. Some of this clinical work to include lone working at off sites.
- Possibility of working within the adult team, depending on service needs.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To provide paediatric audiological assessment and appropriate management interventions for children within the local area.
- To work collaboratively as part of a team and to make autonomous decisions when working alone.
- To provide complex and sensitive advice to families regarding their childs hearing. Such advice might be delivered within an emotive atmosphere. To develop and advise on interventions and (re)habilitation programmes based upon autonomous clinical opinion, which may involve referral onwards to relevant intervention programmes.
- To be able to communicate with other professionals effectively to achieve a clear multi-disciplinary approach for the patient. This may involve other health professionals, education services or social services.
- Responsible for working within the paediatric team to deliver the clinical direction of the service, seeing children and young adults in single and joint clinician clinics, within the boundaries set by the Head of Audiology. Some of this clinical work to include lone working at off sites.
- To be aware of the referral-to-treatment position and DNA rates of the paediatric team and ensure that the team leads are appraised of threats to breaching.
- Contributes to the continuous development of verification and validation methods.
- Active contributor to audit, development and research programmes in Audiology for UHS. Maintenance of own audit activity as requirement for continued registration with regulatory bodies.
- Possibility of working within the adult team, depending on service needs.
Please see job description & person specs for full details.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic, hardworking and committedclinicians in the Paediatric Audiology team at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Audiology service based in Brighton, in our new, state-of-the-art paediatric department.
This is a full-time post to collaboratively deliver our paediatric Audiology services.
The service focuses on the assessment and rehabilitation ofpatients with deafness, vestibular conditions, tinnitus and auditory processing disorder.We are the regional centre for Bone Conduction and Middle Ear Implants.
Within this role there may also be an opportunity to be involved in the adult rehabilitation team.
The successful candidate will be expected to have a high level of clinical expertise and the interpersonal skills, compassion and sensitivity to build positive and trusting relationships with patients, families and carers, and the team.
In return, we can offer opportunities for your professional development and a supportive, responsive team to work within.
- To provide paediatric audiological assessment and appropriate management interventions for children within the local area.
- To work collaboratively as part of a team and to make autonomous decisions when working alone.
- To provide complex and sensitive advice to families regarding their child's hearing. Such advice might be delivered within an emotive atmosphere. To develop and advise on interventions and (re)habilitation programmes based upon autonomous clinical opinion, which may involve referral onwards to relevant intervention programmes.
- Responsible for working within the paediatric team to deliver the clinical direction of the service, seeing children and young adults in single and joint clinician clinics, within the boundaries set by the Head of Audiology. Some of this clinical work to include lone working at off sites.
- Possibility of working within the adult team, depending on service needs.
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