Associate Audiologist

An opportunity has arisen for a well-motivated Associate Audiologist to join our friendly Audiology team based at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for an experienced Associate Audiologist/Hearing Dispenser with a foundation audiology degree or equivalent.

As part of your role, you will assist in the provision of our audiology services. You will provide support to the Audiologists in the department as well as a comprehensive hospital and community rehabilitation service across West Norfolk. Covering a number of community clinics across West Norfolk, you will work both within the team environment at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and autonomously within the community environment. We are a friendly and forward-thinking team who encourage personal development and support whilst providing all training as required.

If this role fits your profile, we would love you to join our team.

• To provide screening and diagnostic audiometry masked as necessary AC & BC and screening tympanometry on routine adult and older children during Audiology out-patients following local and national guidelines. Have the knowledge of when it is appropriate to refer on to an Audiologist for non-routine diagnostic testing.
• Obtain the cooperation of all patients and when appropriate their relatives or carers.
• Communicate information to patients using reasoning, reassurance, persuasion, tact, and sensitivity. Ability to obtain pertinent information from patients in order to be able to help them.
• When appropriate and as part of a patients' rehabilitation, issue suitable hearing aids using real ear measurements and other local and national guidelines.
• Deal with patients who will normally have a hearing impairment, who may be anxious and/or who may be under stress.

• Pre-Foundation Degree in Hearing Aid Audiology or equivalent experience
• Foundation Degree in Hearing Aid Audiology or equivalent experience

• Ability to assist patients with hearing aids who have a non-routine though not complex problems by utilising the experience gained over a period of time
• Experience within an Audiology Department setting

• Perform diagnostic audiometric assessments
• Excellent communication and empathy skills
• To have a proactive approach to self-development
• Knowledge of diagnostic air and bone conduction audiometry principles including the rules for masking
• An in-depth knowledge of hearing aid parameters and an ability to use that knowledge to give individual care to each hearing aid user
• To understand the anatomy and physiology of the human ear.
• Ability to undertake audit as required

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.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT