Associate Audiologist

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Sutton-in-Ashfield seeks an Associate Audiology Practitioner to deliver high-quality audiology services. The role includes conducting diagnostic procedures, assessing patient needs, and ensuring tailored rehabilitation programs. You will work autonomously while upholding standards of clinical governance and patient care, engaging with vulnerable patients, and contributing to service quality initiatives. Strong communication skills are essential. Application deadline: 12 Feb 2026.

Qualifications

• Ability to assess hearing needs and interpret results.
• Experience working with hearing-impaired, elderly, frail or vulnerable patients.
• Strong organizational skills to manage own caseload.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct diagnostic audiology procedures for diverse patient groups.
• Support hearing rehabilitation programs tailored to individual patient needs.
• Contribute to service quality, audit, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Clinical investigations

Patient care and support

Job description

Overview

The Associate Audiology Practitioner plays a key role in delivering a high-quality, patient-centred Audiology service at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Working within the Audiology Department and reporting to the Head of Audiology, the post holder plans and conducts a range of diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology procedures for adults and children, in line with national evidence, best practice and clinical guidelines.

The role involves undertaking clinical investigations, assessing hearing needs, interpreting results, and providing diagnostic information and advice to ENT clinicians, other professionals, patients and carers. The post holder supports the implementation, evaluation and ongoing management of hearing rehabilitation programmes, ensuring care is effective, safe and tailored to individual patient needs.

The Associate Audiology Practitioner works with a high degree of autonomy within agreed protocols, managing their own caseload while contributing to service quality, audit, research and continuous improvement. Strong communication skills are essential, particularly when working with hearing-impaired, elderly, frail or vulnerable patients and children.

The role also contributes to maintaining a safe, inclusive and supportive working environment, upholding Trust policies, equality and diversity principles, and high standards of clinical governance to ensure excellent patient care and experience across the Audiology service.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology procedures for adults and children, in line with national evidence, best practice and clinical guidelines.
• Undertake clinical investigations, assess hearing needs, interpret results, and provide diagnostic information and advice to ENT clinicians, other professionals, patients and carers.
• Support the implementation, evaluation and ongoing management of hearing rehabilitation programmes, ensuring care is effective, safe and tailored to individual patient needs.
• Work with a high degree of autonomy within agreed protocols, manage own caseload while contributing to service quality, audit, research and continuous improvement.
• Communicate effectively with hearing-impaired, elderly, frail or vulnerable patients and children.
• Contribute to maintaining a safe, inclusive and supportive working environment, upholding Trust policies, equality and diversity principles, and high standards of clinical governance to ensure excellent patient care and experience across the Audiology service.

About the Trust

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Additional information

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

This advert closes on Thursday 12 Feb 2026