Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

Various clinic locations available depending on candidate preference including Southwest London & Surrey

Applications are invited for Audiologists to join our dynamic and progressive Audiology team

We are looking for a professional educated to degree level with an audiology qualification.  The successful applicants will support delivery of our Audiology service.

The successful applicant will join a multidisciplinary team of extended scope Audiologists, Clinical Scientists, Newborn Hearing Screeners, clinical nurse specialists, voice therapists and ENT specialists to provide a full range of specialist-level services to the local population of approximately 360,000.

You will be required to travel, therefore a valid driving license and access to a vehicle would be desirable.

Main duties of the job

The department, which is accredited under the Improving Quality in Physiological Measurement Services (IQIPS) programme to provide the full scope of routine and complex paediatric and adult services, is delivered by a team of fourteen highly qualified and experienced Audiology practitioners.  The dedicated team provides the highest standards of care and, as an accredited training centre, enjoy strong links with higher education providers and active participation in the South West London  Clinical Networks.

In order to be considered for these posts you should be registered with (or eligible to be registered with) the Academy for Healthcare Science (formerly RCCP) and be eligible to work in the U.K. (i.e. Working holiday Visa, EU passport). Support will be given to ensure that the successful candidates continue their professional development

The successful applicant will also be:

• Familiar with service provision in the UK and current developments and issues
• Experienced working at a high level of autonomy and operate effectively within a team
• Able to demonstrate a flexible, adaptable approach and an ability to exercise good judgement based on up-to-date knowledge and experience

Working for our organisation

Following several years of close partnership working and shared leadership, in November 2024 Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) and Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust formally joined together and are now called Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust.

The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred and which puts safety first and where all staff members take responsibility, are valued and value each other.

To support this, our five values are that we are all:

Caring – we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.

Safe – we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first).

Responsible – all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation.

Inspiring – we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients.

Value each other – we all value each other’s contribution.

Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by Living Our Values Every day.