Learning Disability and Dementia Lead for Audiology

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Huddersfield seeks a Learning Disability and Dementia Lead for Audiology to provide clinical leadership for a multidisciplinary team. The role involves conducting hearing assessments and ensuring high-quality care for patients with complex needs. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in audiology and leadership skills, contributing to an inclusive and supportive team. This position offers a unique opportunity to enhance patient care in a vibrant setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in conducting routine and complex hearing assessments.
• Ability to fit a variety of hearing aids using appropriate methods.
• Experience in clinical leadership roles within audiology teams.

Responsibilities

• Conduct routine and complex hearing assessments.
• Lead the audiology service for patients with learning disabilities and dementia.
• Carry out clinical audits and support staff development.

Skills

Significant experience in adults and paediatric audiology

Ability to communicate with healthcare professionals

Leadership and organisational skills

Experience in electrophysiological hearing assessment

Education

Audiologist with BSc (Hons)/BAAT 1+2

Registered with AHCS or HCPC

Post qualification training in patients with complex learning needs

Job description

Go back Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Learning Disability and Dementia Lead for Audiology

The closing date is 09 November 2025

We're offering an exciting opportunity for a skilled Audiologist to take the next step into a leadership role within our vibrant and fast‑paced audiology team. This position involves clinical responsibility for patients with learning disabilities and dementia, leading a multidisciplinary team to deliver high‑quality assessment and rehabilitation services tailored to their needs.

This position involves providing clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary team comprising audiologists, audiology assistants, and administrative staff. The successful candidate will also collaborate closely with a range of professionals, including Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, ENT consultants, and referrers across the region, to ensure the delivery of high‑quality, patient‑centred care.

Main duties of the job

The role involves conducting both routine and complex hearing assessments, as well as hearing aid fittings. Responsibilities include:

• Conduct routine and complex hearing assessments and hearing aid fittings.
• Lead the audiology service for patients with learning disabilities and dementia.
• Work with other departments within the trust to identify and support these patients.
• Carry out clinical audits, observe and support staff development.
• Represent the audiology department in external meetings.
• Assume overall management of the service in the absence of the Head of Service.

The successful candidate needs to have significant experience in undertaking assessments on patients with learning difficulties and dementia and working within teams to deliver these services in a specialist setting.

About us

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

• Audiologist with BSc (Hons)/BAAT 1+2, and post qualification experience to include paediatric audiology
• Registered with either AHCS or HCPC
• Post qualification training in patients with complex learning needs
• External ABR training
• Paediatric training

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE

• Significant experience in both adults and paediatric audiology
• Significant experience in assessments for patients with complex learning needs
• Experience in undertaking electrophysiological hearing assessment
• Able to fit a wide variety of hearing aids using appropriate methods and validation

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Ability to work individually and in a team
• Ability to communicate with colleagues and other healthcare professionals
• Ability to prepare reports in a timely manner
• Leadership and organisational skills
• Evidence of a high standard of Audiology

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.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust