Job overview
Part Time Hours - 26 hours per week
Three days - flexible depending on the needs of the service
This early‑career role is suitable for a fully qualified clinician to deliver routine diagnostic hearing assessments and provides hearing‑aid–based rehabilitation. The role combines autonomous clinical practice, patient counselling, equipment management, and contribution to service quality.
Main duties of the job
The main purpose of this role is to provide a range of clinical care working in one or more specialist areas of audiology.
The post holder is responsible for maintaining clinical records in relation to the activities carried out.
The post holder will also supervise or train less experienced staff, assess and supervise students and be a point of contact for junior staff regarding routine cases, and provide advice regarding the specialist area(s) they work in.
The post holder may also lead a team working in a specialist area.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached.
Advertising Date: 4th September 2026
Closing Date: 17th September 2026
Shortlisting Date: 18th September 2026
Proposed Interview date: 2nd October 2026 (TBC)
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high number of applications is reached.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- The post involves sitting, walking and stooping to look in ears and place headsets on the patient in a variety of settings across both sites and community and domiciliary settings
- Good hand to eye coordination and dexterity
- Travelling between hospital and community audiology sites
- Be able to carry equipment and pull a trolley
- The post requires frequent use of concentration in assessing patients and negotiating individual care plans as some appointments last 90 minutes.
- Conveying detailed and complex information to patients and carers where there may be significant communication barriers
- Communicating with a wide variety of people including patients, carers, medical staff, social care and the public
- The post holder will be exposed to sensitive, emotional and occasionally distressing circumstances and may treat people who are at the end of life or aggressive
- The post holder will work in consulting rooms and soundproof booths within the Audiology department and occasionally visit the wards and residential care homes
- Routinely encounters unpleasant smells and sights within the ward and residential home visits
- The soundproof booths and small consulting rooms often become stuffy and can feel claustrophobic
- The post holder will be using a visual display frequently sat at a work station.
Skills
Essential
- Analysis of test pure tone audiometry and tympanometry results
- Competent use of audiological equipment and software
- Performing real ear measurements including real ear to coupler difference, RECD
- I.T Skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Relevant experience at working at Band 5 level
- Evidence of clinical competence
- Experience of fitting advanced digital hearing aids
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Audiology Degree or equivalent
- RCCP Registered or if newly qualified working towards registration
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This advert is for Audiologist with Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in St Helens Hospital. It is listed as a Band 5 Audiologist role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 17 Sep 2026.
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