Audiologist

Sherwood Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Audiologist to join our experienced Audiology team at King's Mill Hospital. You will provide high-quality diagnostic and rehabilitative care to adults and children, manage your own caseload and support patients along their hearing journey.

The role offers opportunities to contribute to audits and service development, with NHS values and patient-centred care at the heart.

Qualifications

• Experience with diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology procedures.
• Ability to manage own caseload autonomously.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with hearing impaired individuals.
• State registration with HCPC or RCCP.
• Training in NHS procedures and policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology services to patients.
• Manage own caseload and work autonomously.
• Collaborate with GPs, ENT clinicians and other healthcare professionals.
• Contribute to clinical audit, research and service development.

Skills

Autonomous practitioner

Own caseload management

Communication skills

Decision making under pressure

IT skills

Education

BSc Audiology (HCPC)

HCPC registration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job summary

Are you passionate about making a meaningful difference to people's lives through specialist healthcare? We are looking for a dedicated Audiologist to join our friendly and experienced Audiology team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

As an Audiologist, you'll play a key role in providing high-quality diagnostic and rehabilitative care to adults and children, managing your own caseload and supporting patients throughout their hearing journey. You'll undertake a comprehensive range of assessments, interpret clinical findings, provide expert advice and develop personalised hearing rehabilitation programmes tailored to each patient's needs.

This is a varied and rewarding role where your clinical expertise and communication skills can make a real difference. You'll work closely with patients, parents and carers, GPs, ENT clinicians and other healthcare professionals, while also contributing to the supervision and development of trainee and assistant colleagues.

With opportunities to contribute to clinical audit, research, service development and new ways of working, this role is ideal for an Audiologist who enjoys working autonomously, values evidence-based practice and is committed to delivering compassionate, patient-focused care.

If you're looking for a role where your expertise can genuinely help people hear better, communicate more confidently and improve their quality of life, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

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.

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Details

• Date posted: 14 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 5
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 214-SRG-8184379
• Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• Expertise across a range of diagnostic and rehabilitative Audiological procedures
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner holding their own caseload
• Excellent communication verbal and written skills especially with the hearing impaired
• Excellent organisational skills with an ability to demonstrate initiative, motivation and independent thinking
• Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to manage self effectively
• Ability to cope with decision making under pressure, meet deadlines, prioritise workloads, and delegate effectively
• Clinical decision‑making skills and ability to identify appropriate methodologies and strategies
• IT skills

Desirable

• Competent with Microsoft Office
• Involvement with Clinical audit and research
• Advanced skills or extensive experience in any of these areas

Qualifications- Academic/ Craft/ Professional

Essential

• Academic institution trained candidates HCPC recognised BSc in Audiology with NHS clinical placement
• In-service trained candidates BSc equivalent theoretical knowledge and practical experience, defined by the RCCP as that gained during significant clinical practice in an Audiology service whilst obtaining a minimum of an HND in Audiology (or equivalent) and professional British Association of Audiologists (BAAT) Part l and ll examinations
• State Registration with the RCCP or HCPC

Further Training

Essential

• Training in NHS procedures, protocols and policies

Desirable

• Sign language training
• Teaching / training / workplace assessor qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as part of a team
• Experience in dealing with the public in general particularly the hearing impaired

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Audiology
Heather Day-Lascelles
[e-mail]
01623622515

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.