Audiology Assistant Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

**Job overview**:
Salford Audiology are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated, and caring person to complement our busy Audiology team** **for 19.5 hours per week over 3 days.** **The working hours and days will be agreed with the successful applicant.

Salford Audiology Service is a multi-site service, which is provided across Acute, Community and Educational settings. We provide a full range of Adult and Paediatric Audiology Services, including Newborn hearing screening Programme, Hearing assessment and Rehabilitation, Baha, Comprehensive Vestibular Assessment and Rehabilitation and Hearing Therapy. Travel to Gateway centres across Salford will be a requirement of the post holder.

**Main duties of the job**:
The Assistant Audiology Practitioner will work as a member of the Audiology team under the direct and indirect supervision of an Audiologist. The post will involve direct patient care, in respect to dealing with basic enquiries and performing routine non-complex tasks on a daily basis which will include hearing aid repair and maintenance. There will be a mix of both clinical and administrative duties. You will support the administration team with appointment bookings, stock control and general telephone enquiries.

Training will be provided on-site however attendance at an accredited Assistant Audiology Practitioner course is expected. There will be a multiple competency-based assessment that you will undertake to enable you to fulfil your role.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to **make a difference** and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - **care**, **appreciate** and **inspire** - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- GCSE - A-C 5 min. English, Maths, Science
- Willingness to undertake training course for Assistant Audiology Practitioner

**Desirable criteria**:
**Knowledge, Training & Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Understanding of information technology and administrative systems
- Experience of working in customer/patient facing role
- Understanding of maintaining confidentiality in relation to patient identifiable information in with Trust Policies and data protection

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience within healthcare setting

**Skills & Abilities**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of Interest in hearing and balance
- Good interpersonal skills with effective written and verbal communications skills
- Good IT Skills
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the demands of the service

**Desirable criteria**:

- Car iser
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

**Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.**

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