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Location
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
Profession
Health science services
Grade
Band 6
Deadline
26 Nov 2024
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
15 Nov 2024

Job overview

Join our large friendly team within the Audiology Department at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust and enjoy the variety of work that comes from being part of our large complex Audiology service. We have over 45 staff, made up of senior assistant audiologists, associate audiologists, audiologists, Clinical Scientists, hearing therapists and a newborn hearing screening team all supported by an excellent administrative team.

The department offers a complex adult rehabilitative service, tinnitus and hearing therapy services, newborn hearing screening programme, paediatric assessment and (re)hab service (0-18 years) and vestibular assessment and rehabilitation service at the main NNUH site and at Cromer Hospital. Domiciliary work is also undertaken.

Our department places an emphasis on quality and we are proud to have been one of the earliest sites to become UKAS accredited under the Improving Quality In Physiological Services accreditation scheme, and are currently accredited for our paediatric service.

Main duties of the job

This post offers an opportunity for someone with significant post-graduate clinical experience to join a quality-focused service. We are commissioned to deliver a complex service, and we are looking for a team member who will be able to actively participate in this.

The ideal candidate will be somebody who has paediatric experience and is motivated who is motivated to deliver a high-quality service to our patients. Because we are IQIPS accredited, the post is ideally suited to an audiologist who is comfortable with a range of both adult and paediatric procedures.

The main responsibilities include:

  • Autonomous practice within paediatric and adult rehabilitation clinics
  • Assessment of hearing loss in non-routine (complex) adult and paediatric populations
  • Fitting of hearing aids in non-routine (complex) adult and paediatric populations

We host an STP trainee and would welcome the successful candidate to contribute to training. As a senior audiologist, the post holder would be able to support more junior members of the team, providing leadership and clinical oversight as needed.

There is a strong culture of auditing our work to ensure best practice, and we expect the successful candidate to be actively involved in this work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Communicates condition, test, other technical information to colleagues / to patients including those who may have physical or learning disabilities, and relatives and carers.
  • Provides counselling to patients and reassurance, setting realistic expectations for the hearing aid with regard to hearing loss/wearing aids.
  • Assists in the day to day running of the .department, including planning activity workload for self and/or others.
  • To ensure working knowledge of all equipment in use in clinical areas and to report any faults that are found.
  • Direct line management of staff
  • Undertakes annual clinical appraisals of staff that are line managed.