Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 7 Advanced Audiologist / Clinical Scientist to join the Auditory Implant Service at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospital, part of UCLH, one of the UK's leading specialist NHS trusts.
This post offers the chance to work within a highly specialised, internationally recognised auditory implant service, delivering complex care to paediatric and/ or adult patients using cochlear implants and other implantable hearing technologies.
You will manage a highly specialised clinical caseload with a high degree of autonomy, contribute to service development, and play a key role in education, training, and clinical governance.
Clinical The core of the role is managing a complex, specialist caseload of paediatric cochlear implant patients with a high degree of autonomy. This includes full audiological assessment (behavioural and objective), determining suitability for cochlear implantation, intra-operative measurements, and programming/mapping CI devices from all four manufacturers (Cochlear, Advanced Bionics, MED-EL, Oticon/Neurelec). The post holder also provides ongoing rehabilitation, troubleshooting, and follow-up, and works with families in often emotionally demanding circumstances around diagnosis and post-implantation expectations.
Main duties of the job
Communication and MDT working A significant part of the role involves communicating complex, sensitive information to patients, parents and carers -- including diagnosis of hearing loss, implant suitability, and managing expectations. This includes joint working with speech and language therapists, psychologists, teachers of the deaf, and ENT/AVM consultants, as well as liaising with CI manufacturers and external agencies.
Management and leadership The post holder takes responsibility for day-to-day organisation within the paediatric CI service -- including rostering, managing leave and sickness, stock ordering, and ensuring sufficient clinical cover. They line manage junior staff through supervision, appraisal, and objective setting, and support recruitment.
Education and research Training and supervising junior audiologists and students is expected, as is contributing to audit, research, and CPD. There is an expectation of presenting or publishing at a national or international level over time.
Operational Timely and accurate record-keeping in Trust systems (Epic, AuditBase etc.), report writing for GPs and local caregivers, monitoring waiting lists and referral trends, and ensuring equipment calibration and health and safety compliance.
About us
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
o University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
o National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
o Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
o University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
o Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
o University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
o The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
o University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- MSc in Clinical Audiology or equivalent level of knowledge/expertise in field CAC or equivalent post graduate experience
- Registered to practice as an Audiologist/ Clinical Scientist with either Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP).
- Significant post-graduate experience in relevant clinical area
- Evidence of post graduate CPD
- Applied theoretical knowledge of the relevant assessment and therapeutic/rehabilitative procedures for the management of audiological or vestibular conditions in adults and/or children
- Knowledge of impact of co-morbidities such as global delay or neurological conditions in the management of adults and/or children
Desirable
- Post graduate management/ leadership training or experience as supervisor
- Membership of BAA, BSA
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in the relevant clinical area and evidence of clinical competency with a complex patient caseload.
- Specialist knowledge of routine and non-routine diagnostic / therapeutic audiological assessment procedures, their interpretation and their implications for patient management
- Experience in formulating comprehensive management plans based on case history information and diagnostic test results, where management decisions may or may not be straightforward
- Experience of working with hearing impaired patients / parents / carers and associated professionals
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit, research, and / or presentations at scientific meetings.
Desirable
- Evidence of financial and stock management
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work in a team and to independently deliver clinical and non-clinical tasks
- Ability to work with a level of autonomy to assess, diagnose, differentially diagnose and manage patients and their families.
- Participation in research and development activities, including audit of clinical outcomes as required
- Ability to work calmly and methodically when under pressure from a busy and varied caseload, demonstrating good prioritisation and organisational skills
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to monitor outcomes using clinical and non-clinical data
Clinically specific skills and abilities:
Essential
- General (all staff) Advanced signal processing hearing aids including fitting, verification and evaluation methods
- Knowledge required for specific areas: Cochlear Implant Theoretical knowledge of cochlear implants Suitability for and potential benefits of cochlear implants Theoretical knowledge of BAHA Suitability for and potential benefits of BAHA
- Experience of working within the designated specialist area, e.g. paediatrics/CI
Desirable
- Evidence of teaching students and groups of staff
Communication
Essential
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Fluent English speaker.
- Ability to effectively and accurately communicate sensitive information to staff, patients and relatives
- Ability to overcome barriers to communication in patients of all ages, especially with the profoundly deaf and patients reliant on sign or language interpreters
- Able to adapt communication to meet the needs of the situation, including in stressful or conflict clinical and non-clinical situations
- Ability to effectively communicate highly technical and/or condition related information to patients and/or carers
- Managing daily communication and interaction with staff and colleagues
- Good presentation skills at all levels including facilitating patient groups
- Able to build rapport and credibility with team, senior clinical and managerial colleagues
- Ability to deal regularly and appropriately with angry and frustrated individuals.
Personal and People Development
Essential
- Experience in leading staff using motivation and enthusiasm.
- Experience in working within services in line with performance targets
- Participating in service improvements and clinical audit or services/pathways
- Experience in participating in appraisal process and setting personal objectives.
Desirable
- Experience in managing staff in a hierarchical structure
Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Essential
- Demonstratable understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and/or Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Excellent time management, planning and organisational skills within a clinical service.
- Highly developed skills where accuracy is important, such as taking ear impressions, use of probe tube microphone measurements.
- High degree of dexterity, coordination and sensory skills
- Regular visual display unit work.
- Ability to assist all patients groups (such as patients with physical limitations and a variety of complex needs) into and out of sound proofed rooms
- The postholder will need to be passed fit to perform full duties of the post, to be determined through occupational health with any reasonable aids provided where possible
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
47-49 Huntley Street
London
WC1E 6DG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
This listing was aggregated from publicly-available sources. The employer holds an A-rated sponsor licence at the time of this listing, but sponsorship of this specific role is not guaranteed — the employer's offer and UK Visas and Immigration are the final authority. Details may have changed since our last update — verify with the employer via the Apply link.