Job responsibilities
Leadership: Provide clinical and operational leadership across Audiology.
Set the direction to
make changes.
Involve and collaborate with others.
Empower others.
Delegate clinical and
administrative tasks effectively and appropriately.
Provide tools and resources to enable
improved effectiveness of clinical skills.
Create an environment which promotes critical
reflective practice.
Assist staff to develop confidence in managing complex situations and
cases.
Help staff overcome some of the considerable demands created by the nature of the
work.
Lead by example and lay down paths of excellence.
Supervision/Training/Mentoring: Undertake local/regional/national Audiology service
development/training.
In particular provide training/support/supervision and mentorship to
internal and external trainee audiologists and students and be a point of referral for complex
cases and specialist tests.
Manage student placement supervision schedule.
Sign-off student
competence in the individual record of clinical practice (IRCP). Be a practical placement
examiner on-island / off-island for relevant universities.
Organise departmental and technical
meetings, visiting experts, case discussions, joint patient care management sessions, annual
performance review and appraisal.
Promote CPD within the team. Reinforce and offer
feedback on effective clinical skills and competence.
Present audiological topics to various
groups including patients, departmental, hospital (e.g. presentations at the Friday meeting),
and external groups (e.g. social workers learning about Cochlear Implants).
Multi-Agency Working: Shape and implement Audiology policies at local and national level.
Network with UK Heads of Audiology and professional bodies via online meetings,
conferences, NHS Networks.
Liaise with equipment manufacturers and calibration services,
hearing aid manufacturers and software developers.
Collaborate with universities and
recognised external specialists. Refer patients in-line with protocols and the Individual
Management Plan, to an ENT specialist or other programmes such as specialist tertiary
services.
Liaise with educational professionals, memory service, occupational therapy, speech
and language therapy, other hospital services for patient care delivery and joint research.
Cooperate with local organisations such as Earsay, Jersey dDeaf Society and the dDeaf
Partnership Board.
Attend relevant external agency meetings such as the Jersey dDeaf
Partnership board and Childrens Hearing Services Working Group.
Research and Development: Initiate and develop the research agenda. Allocate, undertake
and encourage audit and research activities, clinical service development, equipment and
software testing.
Carry out outcome measurements, patient satisfaction questionnaires, case
reviews.
Liaise with other departments and/or external bodies in collaborative research work.
Departmental development and maintenance: Investigate and assess new equipment and
software and obtain feedback from potential users to make a decision based upon technical
features and operational acceptance.
Develop/assess new tests, investigations, procedures,
protocols and processes using scientific knowledge and research evidence.
Collect normative
data.
Test equipment, trouble-shoot equipment problems, liaise with calibration services for
the yearly calibration schedule. Maintain the equipment register.
Trouble-shoot software
issues, maintain/update Noah4 modules and software protocols, liaising with I.T. and collect
activity data from the PMS.
Set maximum and minimum ordering levels for stock and organise
the end of year stock count.
Add items to the risk register, prepare funding requests and
business cases for staff and equipment.
Conduct health and safety risk assessments. Plan for
the future: new hospital, service plan, essential services provision, workforce plan, business
continuity plan, and succession plan.
Organise events, deaf awareness days, investigate
relevant Datix incidents, log complaints/compliments, and prepare end-of-month reports.
Personal Development: Maintain professional development by continued studies, including
attendance at relevant courses and conferences, networking, involvement at locally organised
events, consulting research evidence and liaising with recognised external specialists.
management sessions, annual performance review and appraisal.
Participate in annual
performance review and appraisal to continually improve and develop in line with personal and
departmental objectives.