Audiologist

Royalberkshire; Oxford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic Band 5 Audiologist to join their team. Candidates should have a BSc in Audiology and prior clinical experience, providing diagnostic assessments and rehabilitation services for adult patients. This opportunity focuses on professional development in a supportive environment and aims to deliver quality care in diverse community settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in adult audiology including assessment, hearing aid fitting and aftercare.
• Competency in diagnostic audiometric techniques and BSA/BAA standards.
• Ability to communicate complex information to patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide adult diagnostic hearing assessments and rehabilitation.
• Independently support ENT services and manage hearing aids.
• Train and supervise internal/external students, and involve in audits.

Skills

Diagnostic audiometric techniques

Rehabilitation skills

IT literacy

Communication

Education

BSc Hons in Audiology

Job description

The audiology team at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an enthusiastic audiologist with a passion for quality care to join their large, friendly, forward thinking department. As a band 5 Audiologist you will be expected to have previous clinical experience of working independently in adult audiology clinics, although this may include university clinical placements.

As a department, we have a strong focus on training, mentorship and continued professional development and have been IQIPS accredited since 2014.

You will have a degree (or equivalent) in Audiology and have obtained, or be working towards, professional state registration.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Role

• You will have experience in providing adult diagnostic hearing assessment and adult rehabilitation work
• You will have prior experience of independently providing ENT support and hearing aid repair and maintenance for service users.
• The service is based in Reading but is delivered across a number of Berkshire and South Oxfordshire locations. The clinician will be part of the team working across these sites to support the local community.

Additional Responsibilities

• Motivation to develop and diversify your clinical skills in order to manage a complex caseloads and potentially support other clinics within the department (i.e. paediatrics, tinnitus)
• There will be opportunities to push service quality and the technical knowledge forward.
• The role will involve training and supervision of internal and external students
• You will be involved in audits and service evaluations to help maintain IQIPS accreditation.

About us

We are one of the largest hospital foundation trusts in the country, and currently touch the lives of half a million patients in the west of Berkshire every year by providing high quality acute medical and surgical services for our local communities.

Our values:

• Aspirational
• Resourceful

The town of Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC recently rated the care provided by The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as good.

Job responsibilities

For further information, please refer to the Job description and Person Specification attached or contact Jennifer Stott on email or 0118 322 7238.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• BSc Hons in Audiology or Equivalent
• Registration, or evidence of working towards registration

Experience

• Experience in adult audiology, including assessment, hearing aid fitting and aftercare (including accurate testing and verification of hearing aids through probe mic and / or coupler measurements
• Ability to communicate complex information including relevant technical and / or condition related information to provide patients with a better understanding and allow them to make an informed choice about their health care.
• Experience of utilising some wider adult rehabilitation skills (i.e. some of the followingtinnitus management/speech testing/CROS fitting/BAHA fitting/non-routine hearing assessment clinics)

Other skills and competencies

• Competency in all areas of adult assessment and rehabilitation
• Diagnostic audiometric techniques and rehabilitation to BSA/ BAA standards
• IT literacy
• Experience of development and implementation of clinical protocol and policy
• Evidence of involvement in audit

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.