Audiologist - Balance and Complex hearing

Audiologist - Balance and Complex Hearing NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area: Audiology - Balance and Complex Hearing

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 349-MRI-

Site: Manchester Royal Infirmary

Town: Manchester

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing date: 20/02/:59

Job Overview

This is a fantastic opportunity to combine your skills in vestibular audiology with complex adult hearing assessment and management. We are an integrated service that provides all hearing and balance services for adults and children under one management structure and within one hospital Trust. We have a purpose-built facility with state-of-the-art equipment for balance testing including rotational chair and posturography. The department provides a number of specialist regional and supra-regional services including the Manchester Balance Service, specialist and complex audiology and all types of auditory implants for adults and children. The department attracts complex cases from throughout the region through our close working relationship with ENT. We have UKAS accreditation for our adult and paediatric services including balance.

You will have specialist knowledge and experience of balance assessment and rehabilitation and have an interest in providing adult audiology services for patients with more complex hearing needs. Additional training and support will be given where required. The department has close educational and research links to the University of Manchester. Successful candidates should have a recognised higher level of training and experience in Audiology.

Main Duties of the Job

You will provide comprehensive assessment and rehabilitation of adults and older children with balance problems using a full range of diagnostic balance equipment. Additionally, you will be part of the clinic providing hearing assessment and rehabilitation to adults with complex hearing needs.

Working for Our Organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is extraordinary.

We've created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and drive research and innovation through the introduction of Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which outlines how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

You will be a key member of the complex hearing and balance services at Manchester Foundation Trust. You will have clinical responsibility for assessing patients referred to the Manchester Balance Service using state-of-the-art equipment. You will provide treatment plans in conjunction with colleagues and ENT staff. You will be part of the MFT balance multidisciplinary team meeting. Your role will also involve the management of patients seen within special hearing assessment and rehabilitation clinics using a range of hearing devices to manage hearing difficulties.

Person Specification Education

• MSc STP or equivalent
• HTS or equivalent in balance assessment
• HTS or equivalent in adult hearing assessment or rehabilitation

Experience

• Experience of providing diagnostic assessment of balance patients
• Experience of providing vestibular rehabilitation for balance patients
• Experience of providing adult auditory rehabilitation with hearing aids and other devices
• Providing hearing aids and rehabilitation services to adults with complex hearing needs

Research and Audit

• Contributing towards audit for a service within audiology
• Involvement with research in an aspect of audiology
• Presentation of audit or research to peers

Additional Non-Clinical Responsibilities

• Leading an aspect of a service or non-clinical responsibility
• Managing stock and spreadsheets

Training

• Experience of training junior staff
• Good, clear and concise written skills

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.