Senior Clinical Scientist
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Reading
- Salary
- £46,148 to £52,809 per annum
- Closing date
- 29 Oct 2024
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- Profession
- Healthcare scientist, Clinical scientist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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Senior Clinical Scientist
We are looking for an experienced Paediatric Audiologist to join our team. We are ideally looking for skills in specialist paediatrics (diagnostics and rehab including ABR), but the role has scope for flexibility with access to clinics across the service depending on skills, experience and interests. The service is committed to training and wider professional development set within a supportive and friendly team.
You will have a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Audiology and hold professional state registration.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Role & Management Role
About us
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the job role, please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached.
For further information, please contact Rachel McCarthy, Head of Audiology, on 0118 322 7238.
Person Specification
Edcuation
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Professional Skills
Essential
Desirable
Other
Desirable
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Berkshire Hospital
London Rd
Reading
RG1 5AN
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
193-6670130NCG
We are looking for an experienced Paediatric Audiologist to join our team. We are ideally looking for skills in specialist paediatrics (diagnostics and rehab including ABR), but the role has scope for flexibility with access to clinics across the service depending on skills, experience and interests. The service is committed to training and wider professional development set within a supportive and friendly team.
You will have a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Audiology and hold professional state registration.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Role & Management Role
- You will have a solid foundation of experience and can demonstrate specialist skills in Paediatrics.
- You will be working independently in this area and have a solid under-pinning knowledge and experience.
- As an integrated team seeing patients of all ages, there is scope to work across service pillars adding scope for variety and development in the role.
- The service is proud to be IQIPS accredited since 2014 and, as part of the team, you will be part of pushing forward service quality and the technical knowledge of the department.
- You will be part of a friendly team who are keen to share learning and are supportive in peer development. There is an active research programme and a proven track record of creating opportunity for wider training, research and academic study.
- You will be part of the day-to-day operational decision-making to maintain effective clinics and a quality service.
- You will be encouraged to take ownership of an area to oversee and develop.
- You will be encouraged to develop novel ideas and implement change with a view to improving care, working practice and the reputation of the service.
- There will be opportunity for line management and / or training supervision.
- You will work with other members of the senior management team to ensure that quality is maintained across the services and that IQIPS accreditation is retained.
About us
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the job role, please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached.
For further information, please contact Rachel McCarthy, Head of Audiology, on 0118 322 7238.
Person Specification
Edcuation
Essential
- MSc Audiology or equivalent experience
- Practical competency qualification, eg BSc, CAC, HTS, STP
Desirable
- Evidence of professional registration HPCP or RCCP - or due to obtain in the near future
- Practical competency qualification
Experience
Essential
- 3 years experience of working in an Audiology department
- Experience of working with routine and complex patients
- Experience of specialist paeds and / or balance
Desirable
- Service improvement /development
- Clinical audit and research
- Experience of managing and developing a section of a service
Professional Skills
Essential
- Diagnostic audiometric techniques and rehabilitation to BSA/ BAA standards
- Skills in complex audiology
- IT literacy
Desirable
- Experience of service development
- Experience of development and implementation of clinical protocol and policy
- Experience of complex Paediatrics and / or balance
Other
Desirable
- Full driving licence
- BSL Sign language level 1 or higher
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Berkshire Hospital
London Rd
Reading
RG1 5AN
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
193-6670130NCG
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