About this role
Job summary
South Tees is a high performing Trust employing 9000 staff, providing acute and community services. We pride ourselves on excellence and are situated at the heart of a great place to live. Affordable housing, breath-taking countryside, excellent recreation facilities and ease of travel, are strong features of the area. Improving working lives' principles are strongly supported through flexible working
Main duties of the job
The South Tees Audiology Service team is based around Middlesbrough, Northallerton and the Yorkshire Dales and is proud to deliver high quality, innovative Audiology care.
This includes an in house earmould laboratory, cochlear implantation, Audiologist-led balance clinics including vestibular rehabilitation, paediatrics/neonatal screening, Bone Conduction Hearing Devices, direct referral hearing aids and fast-track GP Audiology screening.
Principle duties of this post include adult assessment and rehabilitation with both routine and complex adult caseloads.
The main purpose-built department is located in The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.
Informal enquiries are welcomed by the department
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.
Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- BSc Audiology or equivalent in Audiology
- Registered as one of the following, or in the process of registering: RCCP as a Clinical Physiologist, HCPC as a Hearing Aid Dispenser, HCPC as a Clinical Scientist, AHCS as a Healthcare Scientist
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of NHS Audiology Services
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Good level of clinical and technical audiology knowledge in routine audiology, to include pure tone audiometry, tympanometry and hearing aid selection, fitting, troubleshooting and maintenance
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)