Audiologist

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time Band 5 Audiologist to join our Oldham Community Audiology Service. The post is for 3 days working from 8.00am until 6.00pm

The Oldham Audiology Service is friendly, forward thinking and experienced with a good skill mix. It is an innovative and dynamic service that provides assessment, treatment and advice to adults and children with hearing difficulties.

**Main duties of the job**:
You will provide routine audiological services on patients of varying ages in line with service requirements as part a team**.**

Key Responsibilities of the Post:

- Perform diagnostic audiological tests.
- Select, fit and rehabilitate patients with hearing aids using a complex computer system.

The service operates over the core hours of 8.00am - 6.00pm Monday to Friday and Saturday mornings.

Preferred working hours - 28 over 3 days. 8.00am - 6.00pm

**Working for our organisation**:
Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualification / Registration**:
**Essential criteria**:

- BSc Hons Audiology or MSc in Audiology or Diploma in Audiology or equivalent
- RCCP or HCPC registration

**Desirable criteria**:

- British Academy of Audiology membership and or BSA

**Knowledge skills experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Has experience of working in an NHS Audiology Department.
- Completed appropriate record of clinical competence, or demonstrate appropriate experience.
- Knowledge and understanding of professional guidelines
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with all client groups and colleagues.
- Ability to work as a member of a team.
- Ability to perform a range of Audiological tests and to develop an individual care plan
- To engage in CPD and department appraisal system
- Ability to manage & prioritise own workload
- Ability to record clinical and professional activity
- Ability to contribute to service quality improvement
- Fine manual dexterity

**Desirable criteria**:

- Awareness of clinical governance.
- Ability to diffuse conflict

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