Job summary
37.5 Hours per week (Initially 12 month fixed term)
South Tees is a high performing Trust employing 9000 staff, providing acute and community services. We pride ourselves on excellence and are situated at the heart of a great place to live. Affordable housing, breath-taking countryside, excellent recreation facilities and ease of travel, are strong features of the area. Improving working lives' principles are strongly supported through flexible working
Main duties of the job
The South Tees Audiology Service team is based around Middlesbrough, Northallerton and the Yorkshire Dales and is proud to deliver high quality, innovative Audiology care. This includes an in house earmould laboratory, cochlear implantation, Audiologist-led balance clinics including vestibular rehabilitation, paediatrics/neonatal screening, Bone Conduction Hearing Devices, direct referral hearing aids and fast-track GP Audiology screening. Principle duties of this post include adult assessment and rehabilitation with both routine and complex adult caseloads.
The main purpose-built department is located in The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.
Informal enquiries are welcomed by the department
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:-
Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Audiology or equivalent
- oRegistered as one of the following, or in the process of registering: RCCP as a Clinical Physiologist, HCPC as a Hearing Aid Dispenser, HCPC as a Clinical Scientist, AHCS as a Healthcare Scientist
Desirable
- British Sign language level 1 or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Good level of clinical and technical audiology knowledge in routine audiology, to include pure tone audiometry, tympanometry and hearing aid selection, fitting, troubleshooting and maintenance
Desirable
- Experience of NHS Audiology Services
Key skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills which include the ability to: oenable building good rapports with colleagues and patients odeal with patent concerns and complaints otake detailed medical histories, explain tests to patients and debrief patients on findings ouse persuasive and motivational skills as part of a programme of rehabilitation oCommunicate with people with hearing impairment using appropriate communication tactics
- Able to organise own day to day work
Interpersonal skills
Essential
- Good team working skills
- Able to work independently
- Self motivated to deliver a high quality service
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Audiology or equivalent
- oRegistered as one of the following, or in the process of registering: RCCP as a Clinical Physiologist, HCPC as a Hearing Aid Dispenser, HCPC as a Clinical Scientist, AHCS as a Healthcare Scientist
Desirable
- British Sign language level 1 or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Good level of clinical and technical audiology knowledge in routine audiology, to include pure tone audiometry, tympanometry and hearing aid selection, fitting, troubleshooting and maintenance
Desirable
- Experience of NHS Audiology Services
Key skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills which include the ability to: oenable building good rapports with colleagues and patients odeal with patent concerns and complaints otake detailed medical histories, explain tests to patients and debrief patients on findings ouse persuasive and motivational skills as part of a programme of rehabilitation oCommunicate with people with hearing impairment using appropriate communication tactics
- Able to organise own day to day work
Interpersonal skills
Essential
- Good team working skills
- Able to work independently
- Self motivated to deliver a high quality service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
