ENT Specialist Grade

ENT Specialist Grade

The closing date is 27 March 2026

The ENT and Audiology department at James Cook University Hospital is looking to appoint a Specialist Grade Doctor with special interest in Hearing and Balance to support the delivery of the services we provide across University Hospitals Tees.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide autonomous care for hearing and balance patients referred to the department. They will be expected to play a pivotal role in managing interactions between ENT and local vestibular diagnostic and rehabilitation services. Additionally, they will provide support and training to audiologists and other clinicians involved in the care of balance patients.

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for the main responsibilities of the role.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust now form University Hospitals Tees and as such you may be required to work at any site across both Trusts.

At University Hospitals Tees, we want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development.

The two trusts are the area's largest employers, with a budget of around £1.2 billion and more than 15,000 staff who deliver acute, tertiary and community health and care services across the Tees Valley, North Yorkshire, County Durham and beyond. University Hospitals Tees will deliver better outcomes for:

• Patients - by ensuring equal access to treatment and sharing best practice on how to deliver care.
• Staff - by enabling them to work on all of the group's sites more easily and develop career opportunities.
• The wider population - by collaborating to work on endemic health issues and having a coherent voice to represent the people of the Tees Valley and parts of County Durham and North Yorkshire.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for the main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Full GMC registration
• MRCS & DOHNS Qualification
• Certificate of Audiological Competence (CAC) qualification
• MSc in Audiology
• PhD and evidence of published peer reviewed research

K&S

• Ability to organise and prioritise complex demands
• Evidence of research or innovative service developments
• Ability to organise, co ordinate and lead a team
• Evidence of management and administrative experience
• Management training

Experience

• Evidence of experience in general ENT
• Evidence of ability to carry out and interpret advanced high level vestibular diagnostic testing
• Evidence of teaching and training skills for resident doctors
• Evidence of working in a multi disciplinary team
• Evidence of any additional training in ENT
• Evidence of developing educational material or courses

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust