About this role
Job summary
An exciting role has become available for a qualified audiologist within the trust this is a perfect role for a newly qualified audiologist wishing to gain experience within the field.
To work within the Audiology acute team, responsible for the provision of the audiology service to the patients within the Trust.To provide routine audiological assessments, diagnosis and rehabilitation to adults and older children and assist in more complex procedures. Taking responsibility for their own work yet under supervision of a Senior Audiologist.
The post holder will also be involved in the supervision of audiology students and assistants, and they will work at the base hospitals and community venues throughout Halifax and Huddersfield.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this role involves the assessment and management of hearting loss in adults with some testing on older children, including but not limited to.
- Covering ENT clinics
- Undertaking direct access hearing assessment and hearing aid fittings.
- Undertaking clinics to fix and repairs hearing aids
- Participate in stock control and ordering.
- Works on own and uses initiative based on prior training when acting on changing patient information and test results in order to make changes to patient care. Access to Senior Audiologist is available if further expertise is required.
- Be aware of barriers to communication e.g learning disabilities, hearing impaired and when English is not the first language and overcome these barriers effectively.
- Ensure patient is fully informed of clinical procedures
- Manage professionally any potential disputes/complaints that may present from abusive patients, relatives or carers, refer to a senior member of staff if necessary.
This job description is an outline only and is not definitive or restrictive in any way. It will be regularly reviewed and may be amended in the light of changing circumstances following consultation with the post holder
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification below for full details about the role.
If youre interested in applying or would like to learn more about working in our team, wed be happy to hear from you.
Please contact the vacancy lead listed in the Further details / informal visits section.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- BSc in Audiology (or equivalent)
- Committed to personal development
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Basic IT skills
- Fitting and programming digital hearing aids.
- Routine diagnostic audiometry
- Good clinical reasoning skills
Desirable
- Paediatric audiometry
- Tinnitus management
- Deaf awareness
- Presentation skills
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work as an effective team member
- Neat and accurate, demonstration of attention to detailed
- Caring and understanding nature
- Demonstrates positive attitude and behaviours
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with people with complex difficulties.
- Recognises own limitations and have willingness to share and learn from others
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to make decisions and problem solve when dealing with routine situations. E X X Ability to organise own work and caseload.
- Ability to organise own work and caseload.
- Approachable and supportive to junior staff
- Ability to work flexibly to meet service needs
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Acre mills Outpatients
Acre Street
Huddersfield
HD3 3EB
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)