Senior EBME Technician - Colchester, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Job overview

ESNEFT are looking for an effective leader to be the Deputy Head of Hearing and Balance Services. Working closely with the Head of Hearing and Balance Services they will ensure the smooth running of the overall service and that the Departments plans, systems and processes are carried out and managed effectively.

You will be an experienced clinician undertaking highly specialist clinical work. You will have experience of staff management and committed to staff development and wellbeing.

The two sites based at Ipswich Hospital and Colchester Hospital work closely together and the Trust is looking to further strengthen unification of the Teams, their working practices and clinical excellence.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for ensuring, through own work and managing others, that the departments plans, systems, structures and processes for managing clinical quality, risk, controls assurance and local patient and public involvement initiatives are in place, and that these are carried out and managed efficiently.

The role provides professional leadership and management for the hearing and balance service, including the development of strategic frameworks which are robust, auditable and concur with acceptable best practice.

This is an advanced level post comprising of mainly highly specialist clinical work. The post holder works independently and will have highly specialist knowledge over a range of procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and practical experience. The post holder is expected to update their own professional knowledge and lead the clinical development and policy direction of the audiology service.

Working for our organisation

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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