Band 5 Adult Audiologist - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Description

Whittington Health Audiology and Vestibular Medicine Service
AFC - Band 5

Full time substantive post, 37.An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Band 5 Audiologists to join our friendly team to deliver a quality Adult assessment and rehabilitation care pathway.

Clinics are held at a number of locations across Haringey and Islington.

The postholder will be based predominantly at St Ann's hospital, although there will be rotation at other sites.

We also work closely with UCL/Middlesex university to provide clinical placements for BSc students.
To perform routine audiological assessments on adults without direct supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

To select and fit hearing aids to routine adult clients referred from General Practitioners, and internally via ENT/ Consultant Audiological Physician as directed.

To assist senior Audiological staff/medical staff with non- routine diagnostic and rehabilitative cases for both adults and children.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

To perform routine audiological assessments on adults without direct supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

To select and fit hearing aids to routine adult clients referred from General Practitioners, and internally via ENT/ Consultant Audiological Physician as directed.

To assist senior Audiological staff/medical staff with non- routine diagnostic and rehabilitative cases for both adults and children.
BSc in Audiology/ or equivalent acceptable for registration
Routine audiological assessment techniques for adult testing
Hearing aid fitting and review of Adult patients
Repair clinics
Basic knowledge of diagnostic audio- vestibular test techniques

Oto-acoustic emissions clinics


PERSONAL QUALITIES
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
St Anns Hospital, Dept of Audiology