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Audiologist

NHS Professionals Limited

The closing date is 24 November 2024

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Job summary

Job Title: Audiologist

Department: Paediatrics Band: 5/6 Hours per Week: 37.5 Location:Alder Hey Children's Hospital

Why might this job interest you?

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

What you can add:

  • You can be undertaking routine and occasionally complex clinical caseloads in general Audiology without supervision
  • You will be a member of a Multidisciplinary Team within the Audiology service
  • You will be performing diagnostic assessment of the hearing and analyse the results on children under 18.

  • You can be completing follow up reviews of existing hearing aid users

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

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Date posted

24 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£15.67 to £19.10 an hour

Contract

Bank

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

M0042-24-4936

Job locations

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Eaton Road

Liverpool

L14 5AB


Job description

Job responsibilities

RESPONSIBLE FOR:

To perform and analyse diagnostic hearing assessments on children over the age of 36 months.

Examination of the pinna, external auditory canal and tympanic membrane to identify normal and healthy features using otoscopy.

Recognizing contraindications to performing further procedures and appropriate referral to ENT, Dressing Clinic, GP, Treatment Rooms and Radiology.

Provides day to day supervision of more junior staff (e.g., Associate or Assistant Audiologists, and less experienced Audiologists)

Job description

Job responsibilities

RESPONSIBLE FOR:

To perform and analyse diagnostic hearing assessments on children over the age of 36 months.

Examination of the pinna, external auditory canal and tympanic membrane to identify normal and healthy features using otoscopy.

Recognizing contraindications to performing further procedures and appropriate referral to ENT, Dressing Clinic, GP, Treatment Rooms and Radiology.

Provides day to day supervision of more junior staff (e.g., Associate or Assistant Audiologists, and less experienced Audiologists)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • To be successful in applying for this role you will need:
  • BSc Audiology Degree or equivalent
  • RCCP Registered or if newly qualified working towards registration
  • Relevant experience at working at Band 5 level within a Paediatric department
  • Evidence of clinical competence
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • To be successful in applying for this role you will need:
  • BSc Audiology Degree or equivalent
  • RCCP Registered or if newly qualified working towards registration
  • Relevant experience at working at Band 5 level within a Paediatric department
  • Evidence of clinical competence

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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Professionals Limited

Address

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Eaton Road

Liverpool

L14 5AB


Employer's website

https://www.nhsprofessionals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Professionals Limited

Address

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Eaton Road

Liverpool

L14 5AB


Employer's website

https://www.nhsprofessionals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Date posted

24 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£15.67 to £19.10 an hour

Contract

Bank

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

M0042-24-4936

Job locations

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Eaton Road

Liverpool

L14 5AB


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