Advanced Audiologist

Job details

Salary
£49,036 – £55,049 a year
Job type
Full-time

Benefits

Pulled from the full job description
Cycle to work scheme
Employee discount

Full Job Description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will also see a variety of complex and non-complex patients for rehabilitation. It will be an excellent opportunity for a qualified audiologist with some managerial experience wanting to gain further exposure in this renowned centre of excellence.   You will have a BSc and/or MSc in Audiology or BAAT parts 1&2, BTEC in MPPM & must have voluntary registration with RCCP/HCPC.

Person specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MSc in Clinical Audiology or equivalent level of knowledge/expertise in field CAC or equivalent post graduate experience
  • Registered to practice as an Audiologist/ Clinical Scientist with either Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP).
  • Significant post-graduate experience in relevant clinical area
  • Evidence of post graduate CPD
  • Applied theoretical knowledge of the relevant assessment and therapeutic/rehabilitative procedures for the management of audiological or vestibular conditions in adults and/or children
  • Knowledge of impact of co-morbidities such as global delay or neurological conditions in the management of adults and/or children
Desirable criteria
  • Post graduate management/ leadership training or experience as supervisor
  • Membership of BAA, BSA

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable experience in the relevant clinical area and evidence of clinical competency with a complex patient caseload.
  • Specialist knowledge of routine and non-routine diagnostic / therapeutic audiological assessment procedures, their interpretation and their implications for patient management
  • Experience in formulating comprehensive management plans based on case history information and diagnostic test results, where management decisions may or may not be straightforward
  • Experience of working with hearing impaired patients / parents / carers and associated professionals
  • Evidence of participation in clinical audit, research, and / or presentations at scientific meetings.
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of financial and stock management

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work in a team and to independently deliver clinical and non-clinical tasks
  • Ability to work with a level of autonomy to assess, diagnose, differentially diagnose and manage patients and their families.
  • Participation in research and development activities, including audit of clinical outcomes as required
  • Ability to work calmly and methodically when under pressure from a busy and varied caseload, demonstrating good prioritisation and organisational skills
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
  • Ability to monitor outcomes using clinical and non-clinical data
  • Advanced signal processing hearing aids including fitting, verification and evaluation methods
  • Theoretical knowledge of cochlear implants
  • Suitability for and potential benefits of cochlear implants
  • Theoretical knowledge of BAHA
  • Suitability for and potential benefits of BAHA
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working within the designated specialist area, e.g. paediatrics/CI
  • Evidence of teaching students and groups of staff

Communication

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Fluent English speaker.
  • Ability to effectively and accurately communicate sensitive information to staff, patients and relatives
  • Ability to overcome barriers to communication in patients of all ages, especially with the profoundly deaf and patients reliant on sign or language interpreters
  • Able to adapt communication to meet the needs of the situation, including in stressful or conflict clinical and non-clinical situations
  • Ability to effectively communicate highly technical and/or condition related information to patients and/or carers
  • Managing daily communication and interaction with staff and colleagues
  • Good presentation skills at all levels including facilitating patient groups
  • Able to build rapport and credibility with team, senior clinical and managerial colleagues
  • Ability to deal regularly and appropriately with angry and frustrated individuals.

Personal and People Development

Essential criteria
  • Experience in leading staff using motivation and enthusiasm.
  • Experience in managing staff in a hierarchical structure
  • Experience in working within services in line with performance targets
  • Participating in service improvements and clinical audit or services/pathways
  • Experience in participating in appraisal process and setting personal objectives.
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