Job summary
The Audiology Department, based in the ENT Directorate at University Hospital Lewisham (UHL), provides a clinical service on three major Hospital sites - UHL, Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, and Queen Elizabeth Hospital Greenwich, in addition to a community based service.
Working with hearing impaired adults in general adult rehabilitation and in diagnostics alongside ENT.
Main duties of the job
Senior Audiologist
Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Audiologist, with a keen interest in patient-centered practice to join our team at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust. We value innovation and are constantly on the lookout for new ideas as part of our commitment to a culture of continuous improvement.The bulk of the work will be adult rehabilitation and diagnostics, such as hearing aid clinics and ENT clinics.
Main duties of the job
Along with the summary below, you should familiarize yourself with the complete Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advertisement.
About us
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
As an organisation, we've made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of "Good" in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of "Good" that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust's improvement journey, as we've stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We've also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of this position are to focus on adult diagnostics and rehabilitation. Although based at University Hospital Lewisham, the role requires regular attendance at satellite clinics at Queen Elizabeth, Woolwich, and Queen Mary's, Sidcup, as well as time spent supporting in-patients on our wards when necessary.
If suitable, there will also be the opportunity in other areas of adult audiological audiology including:
- Specialist hearing aid clinics
- Advanced testing and diagnostics
- Tinnitus and hyperacusis
- Vestibular
- Microsuction
Job description
Job responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of this position are to focus on adult diagnostics and rehabilitation. Although based at University Hospital Lewisham, the role requires regular attendance at satellite clinics at Queen Elizabeth, Woolwich, and Queen Mary's, Sidcup, as well as time spent supporting in-patients on our wards when necessary.
If suitable, there will also be the opportunity in other areas of adult audiological audiology including:
- Specialist hearing aid clinics
- Advanced testing and diagnostics
- Tinnitus and hyperacusis
- Vestibular
- Microsuction
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc. degree in Audiology
- BAAT exam (Part I and II) with B/Tech Medical or Physics and Physiological Measurement Qualification or NVQ III in Audiology or
- Dip HE in Audiology or Equivalent qualifications
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of two years post qualification audiology experience
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex clinical information to a variety of groups, including other professionals and hearing impaired patients, often where there are barriers to understanding.
- Ability to work autonomously, organising own clinics
- Ability to supervise others.
- - IT skills and experience in database operation, use of spreadsheet
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc. degree in Audiology
- BAAT exam (Part I and II) with B/Tech Medical or Physics and Physiological Measurement Qualification or NVQ III in Audiology or
- Dip HE in Audiology or Equivalent qualifications
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of two years post qualification audiology experience
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex clinical information to a variety of groups, including other professionals and hearing impaired patients, often where there are barriers to understanding.
- Ability to work autonomously, organising own clinics
- Ability to supervise others.
- - IT skills and experience in database operation, use of spreadsheet
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
