Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Guy's Town, London
Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 p.a. inc. HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/05/2025 23:59
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory, and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, we opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities, and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations.
Job overview
Guy’s and St. Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an enthusiastic Audiologist to join the Adult Rehabilitation and Diagnostics team. You will have a BSc in Audiology or BSc Healthcare Science (Audiology) or equivalent, and be registered, or in the process of registering, with RCCP/AHCS/HCPC.
We are recruiting for a permanent full-time position (37.5 hours per week).
Main duties of the job
The successful applicants should have general Adult and Paediatric Audiological experience. The post holder will be expected to support routine ENT (adult and paediatric) clinics as well as adult rehabilitation clinics. There will be scope for further training and development in other areas of audiology.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Successful applicants will:
1. Perform otoscopy, tympanometry, pure tone audiometry on adult and paediatric patients.
2. Perform aural rehabilitation with adult patients.
3. Comply with departmental policies and procedures.
Person specification
Knowledge and Ability/Experience
* Basic assessment and management of adult patients with hearing difficulties.
* Ability to formulate appropriate clinical management plans based on good case history information, and to seek further assistance when required.
* Ability to prioritise & work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Previous experience of working in a clinical Audiology environment.
* Theoretical and practical knowledge of the assessment and rehabilitation of hearing impaired adults, including associated problems such as tinnitus handicap, and hearing aid and auditory implant technology.
* Experience of research and development activities, including audit of clinical outcomes as required.
Skills
* High standard of oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate with a range of patients with different requirements.
* Theoretical knowledge of behavioural and electrophysiological diagnostic audiological and vestibular assessment procedures in the adult population.
* Knowledge and experience of equipment maintenance and calibration.
* Awareness of national Audiology and NHS developments.
Qualifications and Education
* BSc Audiology or equivalent.
* Registered or in process of registering with RCCP or HPC.
* Membership of BAA and/or BSA.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects, and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures, and practices to ensure that all employees, patients, and carers are treated equitably according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Satheesh Sriskandarajah
Job title: Senior Specialist Audiological Scientist
Email address: Satheesh.Sriskandarajah@gstt.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 02071882211
Audiology department: 02071882211
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