Audiologist

NHS; Middlesbrough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Middlesbrough seeks an Audiologist to deliver innovative care. Role includes adult assessment and rehabilitation. Applicants must have a BSc in Audiology or equivalent and be registered with relevant professional bodies. Strong communication skills and NHS experience are essential. This position offers a fixed-term contract with 37.5 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Good level of clinical and technical audiology knowledge in routine audiology.
• Experience of NHS Audiology Services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, innovative Audiology care including assessments and rehabilitation.
• Conduct various audiology tests and procedures.

Skills

Clinical and technical audiology knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Independence

Self-motivation

Education

BSc Audiology or equivalent

Registration with RCCP, HCPC, or AHCS

Job description

Audiologist

The closing date is 28 September 2025

37.5 Hours per week (9 month fixed term)

South Tees is a high performing Trust employing 9000 staff, providing acute and community services. We pride ourselves on excellence and are situated at the heart of a great place to live. Affordable housing, breath-taking countryside, excellent recreation facilities and ease of travel, are strong features of the area. Improving working lives' principles are strongly supported through flexible working

Main duties of the job

The South Tees Audiology Service team is based around Middlesbrough, Northallerton and the Yorkshire Dales and is proud to deliver high quality, innovative Audiology care. This includes an in house earmould laboratory, cochlear implantation, Audiologist-led balance clinics including vestibular rehabilitation, paediatrics/neonatal screening, Bone Conduction Hearing Devices, direct referral hearing aids and fast-track GP Audiology screening. Principle duties of this post include adult assessment and rehabilitation with both routine and complex adult caseloads.

The main purpose-built department is located in The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.

Informal enquiries are welcomed by the department

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:-

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• BSc Audiology or equivalent
• Registered as one of the following, or in the process of registering: RCCP as a Clinical Physiologist, HCPC as a Hearing Aid Dispenser, HCPC as a Clinical Scientist, AHCS as a Healthcare Scientist

Knowledge & Skills

• Good level of clinical and technical audiology knowledge in routine audiology, to include pure tone audiometry, tympanometry and hearing aid selection, fitting, troubleshooting and maintenance

Experience

• Experience of NHS Audiology Services

Personal Attributs

• Excellent communication skills which include the ability to: oenable building good rapports with colleagues and patients. odeal with patent concerns and complaints. otake detailed medical histories, explain tests to patients and debrief patients on findings. ouse persuasive and motivational skills as part of a programme of orehabilitation.
• Able to work independently
• Self motivated to deliver a high quality service

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