Advanced Audiologist / Advanced Clinical Scientist (Audiology)
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Job overview
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 7 Advanced Audiologist / Advanced Clinical Scientist (Audiology) to join our community audiology services within the Royal National ENT & Eastman Dental Hospitals. This is an exciting opportunity to take a role in delivering high quality, specialist audiology services across community sites, working with a diverse and complex patient population.
You will work with a high degree of autonomy, contributing specialist expertise across diagnostics, rehabilitation and service development, while supporting education, training and continuous service improvement. The role offers excellent opportunities for professional development within a highly regarded, academically led NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will manage a highly specialist and complex adult audiology caseload, providing advanced assessment, diagnosis and rehabilitation for patients with hearing, balance and tinnitus disorders. You will deliver evidence‑based care in line with national standards, ensuring excellent patient experience and outcomes.
You will take an advanced role within the service, supporting clinical governance, protocol development, staff supervision and training. Working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues across ENT, Audiovestibular Medicine and community services, you will contribute to service development, quality improvement, education and research, while helping to ensure safe, effective and efficient service delivery across community sites.
Working for our organisation
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Audiology and Hearing Therapy Services sit within the Royal National ENT & Eastman Dental Hospitals, a nationally recognised centre of excellence for ENT and audiovestibular medicine. Our services span adult and paediatric diagnostics, hearing rehabilitation, vestibular services and specialist clinics, supported by strong links with the UCL Ear Institute.We are proud to offer a collaborative, supportive environment that values innovation, learning and continuous improvement, while promoting equality, diversity and inclusion for our patients and staff.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*- UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Person specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential criteria- • MSc in Clinical Audiology/Hearing Therapy or equivalent level of knowledge/expertise in field CAC or equivalent post graduate experience
- • Registered to practice as an Audiologist/ Clinical Scientist/Hearing Therapist with either Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP).
- • Significant post- graduate experience in relevant clinical area
- • Evidence of post graduate CPD
- • Applied theoretical knowledge of the relevant assessment and therapeutic/rehabilitative procedures for the management of audiological or vestibular conditions in adults and/or children.
- • Knowledge of impact of co- morbidities such as global delay or neurological conditions in the management of adults and/or children
- • Membership of BAA, BSA
- • Post graduate management/leadership training or experience as supervisor.
Experience
Essential criteria- • Demonstrable experience in the relevant clinical area and evidence of clinical competency with a complex patient caseload
- • Specialist knowledge of routine and non-routine diagnostic/ therapeutic audiological assessment procedures, their interpretation, and their implications for patient management
- • Experience in formulating comprehensive management plans based on case history information and diagnostic test results, where management decisions may or may not be straightforward.
- • Experience of working with hearing impaired patients / parents / carers and associated professionals
- • Evidence of participation in clinical audit, research, and / or presentations at scientific meetings
- • Evidence of financial and stock management
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria- • Ability to work in a team and to independently deliver clinical and non-clinical tasks.
- • Ability to work with a level of autonomy to assess, diagnose, differentially diagnose, and manage patients and their families.
- • Participation in research and development activities, including audit of clinical outcomes as required.
- • Ability to work calmly and methodically when under pressure from a busy and varied caseload, demonstrating good prioritisation and organisational skills.
- • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional group.
- • Ability to monitor outcomes using clinical and non-clinical data.
- • Evidence of teaching students and groups of staff
- • Experience of working within the designated specialist area e.g., Paediatrics
General
Essential criteria- ALL STAFF: Advanced signal processing hearing aids including fitting, verification, and evaluation methods.
- Knowledge required for specific areas: DIAGNOSTICS: Theoretical knowledge of advanced electrophysiological and neurovestibular assessments in adults
Communication
Essential criteria- • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- • Fluent English speaker.
- • Ability to effectively and accurately communicate sensitive information to staff, patients, and relatives.
- • Ability to overcome barriers to communication in patients of all ages, especially with the profoundly deaf and patients reliant on sign or language interpreters.
- • Able to adapt communication to meet the needs of the situation, including in stressful or conflict clinical and non-clinical situations.
- • Ability to effectively communicate highly technical and/or condition related. information to patients and/or carers
- • Managing daily communication and interaction with staff and colleagues
- • Good presentation skills at all levels including facilitating patient groups.
- • Able to build rapport and credibility with team, senior clinical and managerial colleagues
- • Ability to deal regularly and appropriately with angry and frustrated individuals.
Personal and People Development
Essential criteria- • Experience in leading staff using motivation and enthusiasm.
- • Experience in managing staff in a hierarchical structure.
- • Experience in working within services in line with performance targets.
- • Participating in service improvements and clinical audit or services/pathways
- • Experience in participating in appraisal process and setting personal objectives.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
At UCLH we take equality of opportunity seriously and are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, with a culture that creates a real sense of belonging and trust. It is our fundamental aim, to recruit, retain and promote a diverse mix of people who are representative of our local communities.Applications are encouraged from candidates of all backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to support our world class research, innovation and creativity.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment. For more information please go to: https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/work-with-us/why-choose-uclh/flexible-working.
We offer our permanent staff an interest free season ticket loan for travel, all our staff have access to free independent and confidential support, large retail discounts, a staff discount platform, cycle to work scheme and on-site accommodation to name a few.
Additionally, UCLH Arts and Heritage’s staff wellbeing programme, Creative Comfort, offers a variety of ways to engage with the arts as a member of UCLH staff. You can try out the weekly choir, weekly art club and join the Culture Club for exclusive access to free and discounted tickets for opera, exhibitions, theatre and more.
We recognise, reward and thank colleagues by nominating them for our annual Celebrating Excellence Awards, which are funded by UCLH Charity.
We are also members of www.mytrustbenefits.co.uk/ which offers discounts on high street retail stores, offers on travel deals, and also to take advantage of cash back schemes.
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