Head of Audiology

Head of Audiology

The closing date is 09 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Audiology professional to lead our established, multi-site service. You will have the chance to drive service development, support IQIPSaccreditation, and provide senior clinical leadership across Adult and Paediatric Audiology Services.

Our service offers a broad clinical portfolio, including

Adult and Paediatric Audiology, ENT support and Vestibular assessments. Youwill lead a skilled senior team of Team Leads, Senior Clinicians, and administrative colleagues, all working collaboratively across three main hospital sites and local community hospitals. Guided by our Trust values of Kindness, Respect, and Collaboration, you will be fully supported by an experienced operational and clinical leadership team, ensuring you can focus on strategic leadership, service improvement, clinical quality, and staff development without the pressure of managing every detail alone.

Operating across three main hospital sites Worcestershire Royal Hospital, the Alexandra Hospital (Redditch), and Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre and community hospitals, the Trust serves thousands ofpeople across Worcestershire.

As part of the directorate senior leadership team alongside the Operational Manager, Clinical Director, and Matron you will have real opportunities to influence service strategy, implement innovation, and shapethe future of Audiology across Worcestershire.

Responsible and accountable for the Audiology Service provided by Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust, the postholder will be a highly developed and experienced post-graduate qualified Audiologist, Hearing Therapist or Clinical Scientist (Audiology) and will manage the clinical service, strategic planning, staff allocation, management and training, clinical governance, research and development, finance, and quality assurance for the service. Accountable to the Deputy Director of Operations (Surgery), the postholder will ensure that a consistently high-quality complex and sophisticated clinical service is provided, meeting the highest national and international standards.

The post holder will be responsible for Training and Supervision within the department, and for performance against DM01 and RTT.

We encourage flexible working and will work with the successful candidate to support them tohave greater choice in when, where and how they work. As a Trust wesupport a range of flexible working arrangements and are committed to supporting colleagues to achieve work life balance. Our Trust is split across awide geographical area and the successful candidate will need to be able totravel independently to our 3 sites (Worcester, Redditch and Kidderminster) aswell as regularly being present to manage the operational running of the departments.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to alarger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services fromthree sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and ourcaring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people towork with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewiseaccreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring aDBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

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