Job summary
Looking to build your career in the exciting field of audiology? We are seeking to appoint a calm, compassionate and motivated audiologist to assist us in the delivery of excellent patient-centred clinical care for our local community.
The focus will be on helping your patients achieve their aims by providing the latest hearing aid technology and rehabilitative advice. It is our intention to provide you with the necessary support and additional training to enable you to have a positive impact on someone's life allowing them to engage in all listening situations as fully as possible.
We have an open management style, value innovation and actively seek new ideas and improvements. The service provides regular staff meetings, appraisal, CPD and training opportunities to nurture your learning and development.
Main duties of the job
To perform and analyse diagnostic hearing assessments on adults and children over the age of 36 months.
Recognizing contraindications to performing further procedures and appropriate referral to ENT, Dressing Clinic, GP, Treatment Rooms and Radiology.
Selection, programming and objective and subjective verification when prescribing hearing aids.
Instruct the patient on the effective use of hearing aids, communicating realistic expectations and limitations of amplification.
Negotiate individual care plans to empower the patient to address their communication and hearing needs.
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Advertising date: 27th August 2025
Closing date: 5th September 2025
Shortlisting date: 8th September 2025
Proposed Interview date: 25th/26th September 2025
Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Advertising date: 27th August 2025
Closing date: 5th September 2025
Shortlisting date: 8th September 2025
Proposed Interview date: 25th/26th September 2025
Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Analysis of test pure tone audiometry and tympanometry results
- Competent use of audiological equipment and software.
- Performing real ear measurements including real ear to coupler difference, RECD.
- I.T Skills
- Excellent communication skills
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience at working at Band 5 level
- Evidence of clinical competence
- Knowledge of complex hearing needs
- Knowledge of Tinnitus Retraining and sound therapy
- Experience of fitting advanced digital hearing aids
Desirable
- Knowledge of Vestibular Function Tests
- Paediatric experience
- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Audiology Degree or equivalent
- RCCP registered/applying
Other
Essential
- The post involves sitting, walking and stooping to look in ears and place headsets on the patient in a variety of settings across both sites and community and domiciliary settings
- Good hand to eye coordination and dexterity
- Travelling between hospital and community audiology sites
- Be able to carry equipment and pull a trolley
- The post requires frequent use of concentration in assessing patients and negotiating individual care plans as some appointments last 90 minutes.
- Conveying detailed and complex information to patients and carers where there may be significant communication barriers
- Communicating with a wide variety of people including patients, carers, medical staff, social care and the public
- The post holder will be exposed to sensitive, emotional and occasionally distressing circumstances and may treat people who are at the end of life or aggressive
- The post holder will work in consulting rooms and soundproof booths within the Audiology department and occasionally visit the wards and residential care homes
- Routinely encounters unpleasant smells and sights within the ward and residential home visits
- The soundproof booths and small consulting rooms often become stuffy and can feel claustrophobic
- The post holder will be using a visual display frequently sat at a work station.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Analysis of test pure tone audiometry and tympanometry results
- Competent use of audiological equipment and software.
- Performing real ear measurements including real ear to coupler difference, RECD.
- I.T Skills
- Excellent communication skills
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience at working at Band 5 level
- Evidence of clinical competence
- Knowledge of complex hearing needs
- Knowledge of Tinnitus Retraining and sound therapy
- Experience of fitting advanced digital hearing aids
Desirable
- Knowledge of Vestibular Function Tests
- Paediatric experience
- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Audiology Degree or equivalent
- RCCP registered/applying
Other
Essential
- The post involves sitting, walking and stooping to look in ears and place headsets on the patient in a variety of settings across both sites and community and domiciliary settings
- Good hand to eye coordination and dexterity
- Travelling between hospital and community audiology sites
- Be able to carry equipment and pull a trolley
- The post requires frequent use of concentration in assessing patients and negotiating individual care plans as some appointments last 90 minutes.
- Conveying detailed and complex information to patients and carers where there may be significant communication barriers
- Communicating with a wide variety of people including patients, carers, medical staff, social care and the public
- The post holder will be exposed to sensitive, emotional and occasionally distressing circumstances and may treat people who are at the end of life or aggressive
- The post holder will work in consulting rooms and soundproof booths within the Audiology department and occasionally visit the wards and residential care homes
- Routinely encounters unpleasant smells and sights within the ward and residential home visits
- The soundproof booths and small consulting rooms often become stuffy and can feel claustrophobic
- The post holder will be using a visual display frequently sat at a work station.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
