Audiology Assistant Practitioner

Job summary

This role is for a permanent full-time audiology assistant practitioner to provide support with a variety of patient-facing clinical and administrative duties. Further training will be provided where indicated in order to fulfil job requirements, with the possibility to participate in an apprenticeship to develop towards an audiology qualification.

The Audiology Team who you will be an essential and valued member of, deals with the assessment and management of hearing and balance disorders. The ideal candidate should be able to multi-task in a fast-paced working environment, have a friendly manner with colleagues and patients alike and be able to prioritise their work in order to deal with a variety of demands.

Main duties of the job

The suitable applicant must be able to work in a busy office environment with excellent multi-tasking skills, practical and logical problem-solving skills, able to think and work independently but also ability to work within clinical protocols with a real interest in direct clinical care.

After the necessary in-house training is completed, the post-holder will do their own patient-facing clinics involving digital hearing aid troubleshooting, hearing aid maintenance and small repairs.

Addiionally they will do office administration including stock maintenance and data inputting, to support the audiology team and audiology coordinator.

Being an excellent team-player is a must.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George's Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, and southeast England. Other services treat patients from all over the country. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.