Advanced Audiologist

Band 7

**Main area**
- Healthcare Science - Audiology

**Grade**
- Band 7

**Contract**
- Permanent

**Hours**
- 37.5 hours per week (Full Time 37.5 Per week)

**Job ref**
- 164-5384550

**Site**
- Ropewalk House

**Town**
- Nottingham

**Salary**
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum

**Salary period**
- Yearly

**Closing**
- 02/07/2023 23:59

**Interview date**
- 25/07/2023

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced audiologist who has worked with children with complex needs to join our department. Are you looking to develop your leadership and clinical skills in audiology? Then this could be the role for you.

Main duties of the job

Whilst the successful applicant will be expected to work across both adult and children's clinics, the majority of time will be spent within the children's specialty. You will be expected to specialise within our service for children with tinnitus, hyperacusis, processing difficulties and functional losses. This will also be the focus of your service development skills.

Working for our organisation

Our Audiology department is mainly based in the city centre in Ropewalk House, with a base at the Queen's Medical campus too. It is a large, diverse department with a strong commitment to quality, training and development for all. Our Children's Service has an excellent reputation both regionally and nationally.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for the full details of the role. You will be expected to spend a minimum of 80% of your time in clinic and the rest of your time is taken up with service improvement, quality monitoring activities and line management duties.

Person specification

**Qualifications**:
Essential criteria
- BSc Audiology or equivalent
- Registered with appropriate regulatory body
- Evidence of undertaking training in paediatric audiology

Desirable criteria
- MSc in Audiology or equivalent M level credits
- STP or HTS specialist modules
- Leadership qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
- Significant experience of routine audiology
- Experience in specialist assessment and rehabilitation
- Experience of leading service development and audit
- Experience of working with complex paediatric case loads
- Experience of training students/higher level trainees

Desirable criteria
- Experience of line management
- Experience of developing and implementing research proposals
- Evidence of managing children with tinnitus, hyperacusis, APD & functional losses
- Evidence of clinical examining experience
- Evidence of experience in recruitment

Communication

Essential criteria
- Experience of communication with carers in emotional states, e.g. delivering bad news
- Evidence of experience in teaching and giving feedback
- Evidence of presentation skills

Desirable criteria
- Practical leadership experience
- Evidence of delivering posters/presentations to a scientific audience

Analytical Skills

Essential criteria
- Evidence of ability to make clinical decisions involving complex facts requiring interpretation of results, e.g. managing assessment of complex children
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career

**Salary**: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

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Consent:

- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the **Occupational Health Department **confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to m