Audiologist Band 5

Audiologist, Band 5 An opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Audiologist to join our friendly team, to deliver an excellent audiological service. We are an AQP site and are IQIPS UKAS Accredited. You must have excellent communication skills and be a good team member. You will need to be flexible in your work to adapt to the changing demands of the service. We provide an ENT and Adult Hearing Aid Service on the West Middlesex site and various satellite clinics. The post holder will perform work involving responsibility within a team primarily at the West Middlesex Hospital but also at outreach clinics. Supervision of other staff, including assistant audiologists, can be expected at this level. The post holder will be expected to cover both Adult and Paediatric ENT clinics. Working within the service to ensure that clinical and professional standards are maintained, at all the times. In addition to the duties listed below, the audiologist must maintain continuous professional development whilst working towards higher levels of professional competence. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics. We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment. Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection. Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

• Routine pure tone audiometry
• Routine acoustic admittance measurements
• Taking aural impressions and fitting ear moulds including any necessary modifications
• Selection, fitting and exchange of appropriate hearing aids to adults and REMs.
• Routine follow up checks of hearing aid use, hearing aid repair clinics
• Carry out aural rehabilitation on patients with additional special needs other than hearing loss
• Undertake Paediatric/ Adult ENT Clinics.
• Explain results to hearing aid users
• Carry out Direct Referral procedures.
• Advice on assistant listening devices
• Supervise the work of trainee and junior Audiologists and provide guidance and support in audiological techniques to trainees studying for professional examinations
• Perform more advanced test procedures, under supervision, to include; OAE and ABR and VNGs.
• Advanced tests of middle ear function
• Be aware of AQP Guidelines and adhere to them.
• Be proactive in maintain UKAS IQIPs Accreditation
• Assessment of patients with hearing difficulties using the direct referral system.
• Knowledge of, and working with Hearing Therapy, for tinnitus rehabilitation.
• Knowledge of, and working with social services for, environmental aids.
• Understand and apply evidence based clinical care.
• Seek medical input as required.
• Close liaison with medical staff and hearing rehabilitation services to ensure the effectiveness of routine services