Senior Audiologist

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

**Person specification**:
**Knowledge and Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Bsc in Clinical Audiology/ Hearing Therapy or equivalent level of knowledge/ expertise in field. CAC or equivalent post graduate experience.
- Registered to practice as an Audiologist/ Clinical Scientist/ Hearing Therapist with either Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP)
- Significant postgraduate experience in relevant clinical area.
- Evidence of post graduate CPD.
- Applied theoretical knowledge of the relevant assessment and therapeutic/ rehabilitative procedures for the management of audiological or vestibular conditions in adults.
- Knowledge of the impact of comorbidities such as global delay or neurological conditions in the management of adults.

**Desirable criteria**:

- MSc in Clinical Audiology/ Hearing Therapy or equivalent
- Post graduate management
- Membership of BSA/BAA

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Demonstrable experience in the relevant clinical area and evidence of clinical competency with a complex patient caseload.
- Specialist knowledge of routine and non - routine diagnostic/ therapeutic audiological assessment procedures, their interpretation and their implications for patient management.
- Experience in formulating comprehensive management plans based on case history information and diagnostic test results where management decisions may or may not be straightforward
- Experience of working with hearing impaired patients/ parents/ carers and associated professionals
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit, research, and/ or presentation at scientific meetings.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Evidence of financial or stock management.

**Skills and Abilities**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to work in a team and to independently deliver clinical and non -clinical tasks
- Ability to work with a level of autonomy to assess, diagnose, differentially diagnose and manage patients and their families
- Participation in research and development activities, including audit of clinical outcomes as required
- Ability to work calmly and methodically when under pressure from a busy and varied caseload, demonstrating good prioritisation and organisational skills
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non - professional groups
- Ability to monitor outcomes using clinical and non -clinical data
- Advanced signal processing hearing aids including fitting, verification and evaluation methods
- Theoretical knowledge of advanced electrophysiological and neurovestibular assessments in adults

**Desirable criteria**:

- Evidence of teaching students and groups of staff
- Evidence of working within the designated specialist area, e.g. diagnostics

**Communication**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Excellent written and communication skills
- Ability to effectively and accurately communicate sensitive information to staff, patients and relatives
- Ability to overcome barriers to communication in patients of all ages, especially with the profoundly deaf and patients reliant on sign or language interpreters
- Able to adapt communication to meet the needs of the situation, including in stressful or conflict clinical and non -clinical situations
- Ability to effectively communicate highly technical and/or condition related information to patients and/or carers
- Managing daily communication and interaction with staff and colleagues
- Good presentation skills at all levels including facilitating patient groups
- Able to build rapport and credibility with team, senior clinical and management colleagues
- Ability to deal regularly and appropriately with angry and frustrated individuals

**Personal and People Development**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience in leading staff using motivation and enthusiasm.
- Experience of managing staff in a hierarchical structure.
- Experience of working within services in line with performance targets.
- Participating in service improvements and clinical audit of services/ pathways
- Experience in participating in appraisal process and setting personal objectives.

**Specific Requirements**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Excellent time management, planning and organisational skills within a clinical service
- Effective IT skills including experience of using Microsoft Office and Audiology software systems.
- High degree of dexterity, coordination and sensory skills.
- Regular visual display unit work.
- Ability to assist all patient groups (such as patients with physical limitations and a variety of complex needs) into and out of sound proofed rooms.

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