Audiologist

Employer: Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Acre mills Outpatients

Town: Huddersfield

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 04/05/:59

Interview date: 16/05/2025

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.

We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.

We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.

Job overview

An exciting role has become available for a qualified audiologist within the trust. This is a perfect role for a newly qualified audiologist wishing to gain experience within the field.

To work within the Audiology acute team, responsible for the provision of the audiology service to the patients within the Trust. To provide routine audiological assessments, diagnosis and rehabilitation to adults and older children and assist in more complex procedures. Taking responsibility for their own work yet under supervision of a Senior Audiologist. The post holder will also be involved in the supervision of audiology students and assistants, and they will work at the base hospitals and community venues throughout Halifax and Huddersfield.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this role involve the assessment and management of hearing loss in adults with some testing on older children, including but not limited to:

• Covering ENT clinics
• Undertaking direct access hearing assessment and hearing aid fittings.
• Undertaking clinics to fix and repair hearing aids.

Working for our organisation

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder:

• Records all personally generated clinical observations and test results accurately on patient management system in a format that is comprehensible to other Audiologists.
• Ensure supervising audiologist is made aware of any potential risks affecting patient care.
• Makes day to day planning to prioritise general duties e.g. stock refills, sending moulds or aids to manufacturers.
• Participate in stock control and ordering.
• Works on own and uses initiative based on prior training when acting on changing patient information and test results in order to make changes to patient care. Access to Senior Audiologist is available if further expertise is required.
• Be aware of barriers to communication e.g. learning disabilities, hearing impaired and when English is not the first language and overcome these barriers effectively.
• Ensure patient is fully informed of clinical procedures.
• Manage professionally any potential disputes/complaints that may present from abusive patients, relatives or carers, refer to a senior member of staff if necessary.
• Assist in the training of students on placement from university and Assistant Audiology Practitioners.

Person specification QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• BSc in Audiology (or equivalent)
• Committed to personal development

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Basic IT skills
• Fitting and programming digital hearing aids.
• Good clinical reasoning skills
• Paediatric audiometry
• Tinnitus management

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Ability to work as an effective team member
• Neat and accurate, demonstration of attention to detail
• Caring and understanding nature
• Demonstrates positive attitude and behaviours
• Ability to communicate effectively with people with complex difficulties.
• Recognises own limitations and has willingness to share and learn from others
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to make decisions and problem solve when dealing with routine situations.
• Ability to organise own work and caseload.
• Approachable and supportive to junior staff
• Ability to work flexibly to meet service needs

Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co-create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce that's why we encourage applications from all. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.

Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter.

If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.

You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard £26.40 or Basic £26.40) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.

CHFT is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

If you have any questions please contact for assistance.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Nathan Waite

Job title: Audiology Service Manager

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