Audiologist

Job overview

Audiologist

37.5 hours per week

Fixed term for 12 months

Closing Date: 26th November 2025

Interview Date: TBC

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

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Main duties of the job

To provide a diagnostic and rehabilitation service to audiology patients. This includes adults with learning disabilities, additional disabilities, or special needs. To ensure that a consistently high quality, complex and sophisticated clinical service is provided, meeting the highest national and international standards. The post holder will maintain own professional knowledge and contribute to the clinical developments of the department.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To ensure that all patients are assessed accurately, and by the most suitable combination of clinical tests, to enable further clinical and medical decisions to be made regarding each patient’s management within the trust.
• To provide or assist in providing specialist assessment of severely learning-disabled adults and those with complex additional needs.
• To interpret, with support, erroneous results and recommend further investigations as required.
• To perform assessments and fitting for hearing aids and amplification devices.
• To make and implement appropriate management and treatment plans.
• Make recommendations to ENT medical team on suitability of hearing aid fitting.
• Recognise conditions that require medical treatment and take necessary action to ensure this is followed up by relevant medical practitioner.
• Recognise faults in hearing aids and repair or replace as appropriate.
• Take aural impressions for the manufacture of ear moulds, to select ear mould type and adapt ear moulds for comfortable fitting if necessary.
• Understand that there may be significant barriers to acceptance of hearing loss and rehabilitation. Counsel patients and relatives on the benefits and limitations of hearing aids, advising on rehabilitation, and offer patients an understanding of their hearing condition.
• To provide a diagnostic and rehabilitation service to audiology patients. This includes adults with learning disabilities, additional disabilities or special needs.
• To ensure consistently  high quality, complex and sophisticated service is provided, meeting the highest national and international standards.
• The post holder will maintain own professional knowledge and support the team with clinical developments of the department, including achieving and maintaining IQIPs accreditation

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.