Audiology Technical Officer - Audiology

We are looking to recruit a Band 3 Assistant Audiology Practitioner based at Northwick Park Hospital. The position is for 24 months fixed term to cover a substantive role while the individual is on secondment.

You will be working across three main hospital sites: Central Middlesex, Ealing, and Northwick Park Hospital. You will be an enthusiastic individual with demonstrable experience of working in healthcare environments, with a warm personality and great people skills.

The post holder will be well-motivated and innovative, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to manage both time and workload. They will be responsible for providing Adult audiology hearing aid repairs and stock control.

Main duties of the job:

• The role requires IT skills, ability to work autonomously, and to interact in an empathetic manner with patients with hearing loss.
• You will be seeing patients for routine hearing aid repair and maintenance, making any necessary adjustments to patient hearing aids, and impression taking.
• Ordering and maintaining Audiology stock across all sites.
• Auditing stock levels.
• You will carry out various administrative duties, which include scanning of patient referrals and reports, daily checks of both Adult and Paediatric email inboxes, responding to emails, or forwarding to relevant service.
• A clear speaking voice is essential when working with Deaf and hard of hearing people.
• Assists with clinical supervision and training of junior staff and students.
• Updates own professional knowledge, keeping abreast of new digital hearing aid technology, assessment techniques, and best clinical practice.
• Ensure that clinical equipment used is calibrated, decontaminated, and maintained according to national and departmental protocols.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary: £30,630 to £32,346 a year
• Agenda for Change pay scheme
• Band 3 position

About us:

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) is a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.