About this role
Job summary
NHS Band 5: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
Hours Per Week: full time 37.5
Contract Type: Permanent
We are currently recruiting into our fantastic Trust. Here at Portsmouth University Hospital NHS Trust Audiology department, we are proud to introduce ourselves and share with you that we are looking to recruit a Band 5 Audiologist to a new role that has arisen the department. We are expanding our complex adult services and are looking to welcome a new member to this established team.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an Audiologist with general adult Audiology experience. The successful candidate will have AHCS/RCCP or HCPC registration (pre-registered graduates and those working towards state registration will be considered). Excellent clinical, communication and organisational skills are essential.
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the main Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Job description Job responsibilities
Ideally you will be looking for a Trust that will enable you to grow, and as a busy training department, we are used to supporting staff to accomplish new skills. The department provides a wide variety of Audiology services, including paediatric assessment and rehabilitation, specialist Tinnitus services, Vestibular assessment and rehabilitation as well as implantable devices. There are opportunities to be involved with service review and development, and have supported current staff with the completion if further training and qualification, including STP and HTS modules.
We cover a large geographical area with clinics in Hampshire, western West Sussex and the Isle of Wight. Applications for part time hours will be welcomed. If you are not local to us already, you may not know a lot about Portsmouth, we do have much to be proud of and it is all on our doorstop!
Portsmouth is a vibrant city and tourist destination on the south coast with convenient access to the South Downs National Park and the Isle of Wight and just 90 minutes from London Waterloo by train. Whether your passion is the outdoors, with beaches, sailing, kite surfing, horse-riding and hiking on our doorstep, or culture, in the birthplace of Charles Dickens, with two theatres and a major concert venue in the city, Portsmouth has something for everyone. If history is your hobby, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard offers a rich exploration of Britains naval history, but if retail therapy is more likely to float your boat, discount designer-label shopping at Gunwharf Quays attracts shoppers from far and wide. If you like to travel and explore, Portsmouth ferries sail to the Channel Islands, France and Spain and cruise ships depart from nearby Southampton to the Mediterranean, Baltic, Carribean and Nordic seas. Southampton airport is just 20 miles away, serving destinations across the British Isles and Europe. Learn more about the city of Portsmouth by clicking on this link: https://youtu.be/x3y4byWrgr4
For full details please refer to the Job Description
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Adult hearing assessment and patient management. Hearing aid fitting (with REMs), follow up and repair. Audiometry and middle ear analysis to support ENT, including experience with children over 3. Communication with multidisciplinary teams ensuring affective patient management.
Skills and Knowledge Essential
Relevant practical knowledge and experience. Patient handling, counselling and all necessary skills involved in adult Audiology working. Experience of using all relevant diagnostic, rehabilitative and clinical instrumentation including hearing assessment and the fitting and verification of hearing aids. Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports. Ability to develop and maintain record keeping systems and procedures.
Qualifications Essential
PTP or BSc in Audiology or equivalent, with the completion of associated clinical placement. Clinical skills and experience to appropriate standard of independent practice as supported by, or working towards, State Registration.
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 Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Address Queen Alexandra Hospital
Southwick Hill Road
Cosham
Hampshire
PO6 3LY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/work-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)