Job overview

We are keen to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated full time Head of Audiology Services to lead our friendly, busy Adult Audiology Department at Hereford County Hospital and Paediatric Audiology Department at Children's Hearing Centre Ross Road.

The successful candidate will work as part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team of ENT medical staff, Paediatricians, Clinical Scientists, Audiologists, Hearing Therapists and an Assistant Audiologists. The Departments provides a comprehensive audiological service for adults, paediatrics, balance and tinnitus. You will be responsible for teams based at both Hereford County Hospital and Children's Hearing Centre on Ross road, also several sites around the County of Herefordshire. Therefore you must be willing to travel between sites when required.

We are striving to deliver excellence in patient care - you will act as the Professional lead and clinical manager for the Audiology services, whilst maintaining a high quality Audiology caseload in a clinical speciality (paediatric audiology or adult audiology services) This will require the use of highly developed physical skills where accuracy is important

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the operational and strategic management, professional and clinical leadership of the Audiology service across the organisation ensuring that the key priorities and targets are met within the services through maximising clinical and practitioner involvement. 

 You will work closely with the clinical teams across the organisation to achieve the service objectives. The post holder will be a registered Audiologist and have responsibility for professional leadership within Audiology Services.

The work will involve a significant degree of responsibility and will require the ability to communicate verbally or through an interpreter complex and sensitive information.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.