Senior Audiologist

Job description

• Provide Audiology cover for ENT outpatient clinics, assessing both paediatric and adult patients. This will include masked air and bone conduction audiometry, tympanometry, acoustic reflex testing, and otoacoustic emission testing.
• Explain and discuss test results with patients and their families or carers, ensuring information is communicated clearly and appropriately.
• Contribute to the delivery of a comprehensive diagnostic audiology service, including the analysis, interpretation, and reporting of routine and complex test procedures under indirect supervision.
• Arrange hearing aids for ENT outpatient patients where required, including initial assessment, obtaining consent, preliminary counselling, and entering relevant patient information and test data into the Patient Management System (PMS).
• Participate in the adult hearing aid and aural rehabilitation service, including the direct GP referral pathway for patients aged 18 and over.
• Take responsibility for managing routine and complex patient pathways under indirect supervision.
• Undertake appropriate assessments and comprehensive history taking, tailored to the individual needs of each patient.

• BSc or equivalent in Audiology
• Registration with professional UK body
• Registration with AHCS (RCCP) or HCPC

• HTS module in AR
• MSc in Audiology

• Substantial experience in health organisation
• Evidence of management of complex AR

• Previous supervisory and training role

• Team focused and contributor
• Willing to take initiative
• Enthusiastic and self-aware

• Ability to communicate effectively with the hearing impaired, their families, and care-givers
• Excellent Clinical skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Quality of written application