Audiologist

Portsmouth Hospitals University Nhs Trust; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is seeking an Audiologist to join our adult services. You will provide independent clinical testing, hearing aid assessment and rehabilitation, with support for more complex cases and referrals for MRI/ENT as needed.

The post requires HCPC registration and a commitment to maintaining high standards of care, with opportunities to develop skills through rotations, audits, and service improvements within a busy, patient-centred department.

Qualifications

• AHCS/RCCP or HCPC registration (pre-registered graduates and those working towards state registration will be considered).
• Excellent clinical, communication and organisational skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Independent clinical testing, reporting and decision making for routine adult patients.
• Hearing aid assessment, fitting, signposting to supporting agencies, basic tinnitus support, hearing aid repair and ENT support.
• Assessment and rehabilitation of more complex adults with senior staff support.
• Day-to-day management of relevant clinical and administrative functions in the Audiology Service.
• Involvement in service review and audit.
• Timely response to telephone, postal and email enquiries from professionals and patients.
• Provide professional advice and recommendations to the Head of Service.
• Continued development of the service to high standards.

Skills

Clinical skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Education

BSc in Audiology or equivalent

Job description

Job summary

NHS Band 5 Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata per annum (actual Salary: £12,829 - £15,617 per annum) Hours Per Week: Part time 15 hrs Contract Type: Permanent

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an Audiologist with general adult Audiology experience. The successful candidate will have AHCS/RCCP or HCPC registration (pre-registered graduates and those working towards state registration will be considered). Excellent clinical, communication and organisational skills are essential.

Ideally you will be looking for a Trust that will enable you to grow, and as a busy training department, we are used to supporting staff to accomplish new skills. The department provides a wide variety of Audiology services, including paediatric assessment and rehabilitation, specialist Tinnitus services, Vestibular assessment and rehabilitation as well as implantable devices. There are opportunities to be involved with service review and development, and have supported current staff with the completion if further training and qualification, including STP and HTS modules.

About us

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the main Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Job responsibilities

• Independent clinical testing, reporting and decision making for routine adult patients. Including hearing aid assessment, fitting, signposting to supporting agencies, basic tinnitus support, Hearing aid repair and ENT support.
• With the support of senior staff members, the assessment and rehabilitation of more complex adults including direct referral for MRI, ENT and Audio vestibular medicine.
• Day to day management of relevant clinical and administrative functions of the PHU Audiology Service, ensuring the Audiology service maintains the highest possible standards of care; and clinical and management decisions are effectively communicated throughout the audiology service.
• Involvement in service review and audit.
• Timely and effective response to telephone, postal and email enquiries from professionals and patients.
• Provide appropriate professional advice and to make recommendations to the Head of Service.
• Ensure the continued development of the service to the highest possible standards.

We cover a large geographical area with clinics in Hampshire, western West Sussex and the Isle of Wight. Applications for part time hours will be welcomed. If you are not local to us already, you may not know a lot about Portsmouth, we do have much to be proud of and it is all on our doorstop!

Portsmouth is a vibrant city and tourist destination on the south coast with convenient access to the South Downs National Park and the Isle of Wight and just 90 minutes from London Waterloo by train. Whether your passion is the outdoors, with beaches, sailing, kite surfing, horse-riding and hiking on our doorstep, or culture, in the birthplace of Charles Dickens, with two theatres and a major concert venue in the city, Portsmouth has something for everyone. If history is your hobby, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard offers a rich exploration of Britain's naval history, but if retail therapy is more likely to float your boat, discount designer-label shopping at Gunwharf Quays attracts shoppers from far and wide. If you like to travel and explore, Portsmouth ferries sail to the Channel Islands, France and Spain and cruise ships depart from nearby Southampton to the Mediterranean, Baltic, Caribbean and Nordic seas. Southampton airport is just 20 miles away, serving destinations across the British Isles and Europe.

For full details and person specifications please refer to Job Description.

Qualifications

• PTP or BSc in Audiology or equivalent, with the completion of associated clinical placement.
• Clinical skills and experience to appropriate standard of independent practice as supported by, or working towards, State Registration.

Experience

• Adult hearing assessment and patient management.
• Hearing aid fitting (with REMs), follow up and repair.
• Audiometry and middle ear analysis to support ENT, including experience with children over 3.
• Communication with multidisciplinary teams ensuring affective patient management.

Skills and Knowledge

• Relevant practical knowledge and experience. Patient handling, counselling and all necessary skills involved in adult Audiology working.
• Experience of using all relevant diagnostic, rehabilitative and clinical instrumentation including hearing assessment and the fitting and verification of hearing aids.
• Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports
• Ability to develop and maintain record keeping systems and procedures

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. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).