Job summary
- Main area
- Division D-Audiology
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Secondment/Fixed Term - Contract duration is 9 - 12 months.)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-D-254021
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division D
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/01/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/02/2025
Employer heading
Specialist Audiologist
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic individual with extensive audiological experience to join the Emmeline Centre, a well-established Hearing Implant Service, providing all types of hearing implants.
The Emmeline Team is friendly and dedicated towards the delivery of an excellent service for all our users, as well as constantly looking at better ways to provide a service. The Centre is purpose-built, located within Addenbrooke’s Hospital, in Cambridge.
Main duties of the job
Job role will include working within a multidisciplinary team, undertaking assessments for cochlear implants, review of middle ear implants and bone conductive hearing devices for adults and children. You will participate in departmental projects, including staff training, audit and research.
Bone conductive hearing devices for adults and children. You will participate in departmental projects, including staff training, audit and research.
Experience in working with complex audiological caseload, with different hearing aids fittings and all types of hearing losses. Knowledge in hearing implant systems is preferable but not essential, as training will be provided
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 29th January 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 13th February 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Audiology and demonstrate equivalent experience.
- AHCS (used to be RCCP), HCPC registration (Hearing aid dispenser) or overseas equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- British Sign Language: Level 1
- Counselling/coaching qualification (Introductory level)
- Training with auditory implants
Experience
Essential criteria
- 1. Experience in clinical audiology; including experience of identifying patients requiring further specialist intervention
- Evidence of autonomous and unsupervised working.
- Record of successful supervision and training
Desirable criteria
- Experience as a paediatric audiologist
- Experience working with auditory implants
- Experience of contributing to research/ audit activities
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understands the workings of a broad range of hearing aids and their processing strategies.
- Knowledge about: a. Use of diagnostic tests (eg for the assessment of middle ear function) b. Physiological measures (SRT, ABR, ASSR)
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of Deaf culture and its politics/ values relating to cochlear implantation
- Knowledge of national policies and best practices relevant to hearing implant recipients
- Understands the different types of hearing implants used and their technical aspects.
- Perform and Interpret Physiological measures (SRT, ABR, ASSR)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to determine appropriate rehabilitative interventions from a range of options for complex patients with profound, sometimes multiple disabilities.
- Able to communicate effectively with patients, in particular when explaining complex information about hearing loss and management options
- Excellent prioritization, organisational and problem-solving skills
- Capable of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team
- Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs
- Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload
Desirable criteria
- Able to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
- Able to give short presentations in informal settings to colleagues
- Able to collect, analyse and interpret complex technical data
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zebunnisa Vanat
- Job title
- Lead Audiologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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