Senior Audiologist

Job summary

This role can provide additional responsibility in mentoring junior audiologists and providing supervision over them. This allows you to share your knowledge within the field to ensure the development of Audiology. Furthermore, this allows you to master your craft within your given specialism in Audiology.

Main duties of the job

Working within a multi-disciplinary team, this role involves the provision of a range of routine and advanced diagnostic and rehabilitative Audiology services for adults of all ages including patients with special needs. In this grade an experienced, qualified technician performs work involving much greater responsibility and autonomy, including activities, which are complex and non-routine. Supervision of other staff, including technical assistance, can be expected at this level.

A senior audiologist is responsible for the running of this department in the absence of the head of service and works with the head of service to ensure that clinical and professional standards are maintained at all times. You will have an additional responsibilities in an area of interest at this level it would be expected that some degree of first line management training would be available.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

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Details

• Date posted: 25 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £27.05 an hour
• Contract: Bank
• Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: M0042-26-0206
• Job locations: Watford General Hospital, 60 Vicarage Road, Watford, WD18 0HB, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Manage a caseload of adult patients including both aural rehabilitation and diagnostic audiometric testing.

• Plan, perform, interpret, and report on a range of subjective and objective audiological investigations to a high level of competence and assist in more complex activities.
• Effective liaison with other agencies and professionals, where appropriate, in the management of patient care plans to ensure the highest quality of care is achieved.
• Assist in the maintenance and calibration of audiological equipment.
• Provide training, seminars, and clinical advice at local level.
• Ensure personal compliance with regard to mandatory, professional and personal development in accordance with service needs, CPD guidelines and professional codes of conduct.
• Participate in departmental audit, research & development.