About this role
Job summary
Part Time Hours - 26 hours per week
Three days - flexible depending on the needs of the service
This early-career role is suitable for a fully qualified clinician to deliver routine diagnostic hearing assessments and provides hearing-aid-based rehabilitation. The role combines autonomous clinical practice, patient counselling, equipment management, and contribution to service quality.
Main duties of the job
The main purpose of this role is to provide a range of clinical care working in one or more specialist areas of audiology.
The post holder is responsible for maintaining clinical records in relation to the activities carried out.
The post holder will also supervise or train less experienced staff, assess and supervise students and be a point of contact for junior staff regarding routine cases, and provide advice regarding the specialist area(s) they work in.
The post holder may also lead a team working in a specialist area.
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018 Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal) National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached.
Advertising Date: 4th September 2026
Closing Date: 17th September 2026
Shortlisting Date: 18th September 2026
Proposed Interview date: 2nd October 2026 (TBC)
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high number of applications is reached.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
BSc Audiology Degree or equivalent RCCP Registered or if newly qualified working towards registration
Knowledge Essential
Relevant experience at working at Band 5 level Evidence of clinical competence Experience of fitting advanced digital hearing aids
Skills Essential
Analysis of test pure tone audiometry and tympanometry results Competent use of audiological equipment and software Performing real ear measurements including real ear to coupler difference, RECD I.T Skills
Other Essential
The post involves sitting, walking and stooping to look in ears and place headsets on the patient in a variety of settings across both sites and community and domiciliary settings Good hand to eye coordination and dexterity Travelling between hospital and community audiology sites Be able to carry equipment and pull a trolley The post requires frequent use of concentration in assessing patients and negotiating individual care plans as some appointments last 90 minutes. Conveying detailed and complex information to patients and carers where there may be significant communication barriers Communicating with a wide variety of people including patients, carers, medical staff, social care and the public The post holder will be exposed to sensitive, emotional and occasionally distressing circumstances and may treat people who are at the end of life or aggressive The post holder will work in consulting rooms and soundproof booths within the Audiology department and occasionally visit the wards and residential care homes Routinely encounters unpleasant smells and sights within the ward and residential home visits The soundproof booths and small consulting rooms often become stuffy and can feel claustrophobic The post holder will be using a visual display frequently sat at a work station.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Address Ormskirk audiology department
Wigan Road
Ormskirk
L39 2AZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)