# Senior Audiologist

**Company**: The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Hillingdon
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: fixed-term
**Salary**: £45,953 - £54,254 per annum
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Senior Audiologist will undertake all routine audiological and rehabilitation procedures, including direct referrals for hearing aids and open access from GPs.

Key responsibilities include:

- Taking medical case histories to exclude pathologies that require a medical opinion

- Safely and accurately undertaking test regimes for school-age children and adults with hearing disorders

- Analysing and interpreting test results

- Providing recommendations for further patient management

- Providing rehabilitation for adults with hearing disorders, including care planning and specialist advice

- Selecting appropriate hearing aids and prescription formulae based on patient needs and test results

- Accurately fitting hearing aids using real-ear measurements

- Instructing patients and significant others on the use of hearing aids

- Counselling patients and significant others regarding hearing deficits

- Carrying out first-line management of hearing aid repairs

- Ensuring the correct operation and use of audiological equipment and facilities

- Utilising an integrated testing/patient management system

- Carrying out ward visits and hearing aid repairs for inpatients as required

- Ordering stock and supplies as required

The post is band 6, with a salary ranging from £45,953 to £54,254 per annum, depending on experience.

The trust has over 3,500 members of staff and provides healthcare to nearly half a million people.

## Skills

### Required
- Audiology
- BSc or equivalent in Audiology
- AHCS membership
- Relevant Audiology experience at Band 5
- Experience fitting digital hearing aids and using REM

### Nice to have
- Postgraduate qualification (e.g. MSc)
- Member of BAA / BSA
- Previous experience of Oticon, Phonak and GN hearing aids
- Experience in paediatric audiology assessments

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