Job overview

Assistant Audiologist  Band 3

Part time 30 hours/week

We are looking for an Assistant Audiologist to join our busy Clinical Audiology and hearing implant department.

The department provides a full hearing assessment, hearing aids and hearing implant service to adults and children of all ages.

There is contact with the public. You will be responsible for providing basic maintenance and repair of hearing aids and hearing implants in our drop-in repair service for patients. You will also provide support on equipment and communication techniques that can help people with hearing loss.  In addition, you will liaise with theatre staff in the distribution of implant devices and help audiologists in the performance of their duties. You will be responsible for liaising with IT and calibration services in providing the necessary work required in updating equipment within the department.

Full training will be given.  The successful applicant will have good basic education with a minimum of 5 GCSE passes including Science, Maths and English with excellent computer and technical skills. Experience of working with the public is desirable.

Main duties of the job

Maintenance and basic repair and trouble shooting of hearing devices.

Completing national registry in hearing implants

Ensuring hearing implant devices are available in theatre

Stocking rooms and ordering stock and maintaining stock spreadsheets

Maintaining calibration spreadsheets and liaising with calibration and IT teams

Assisting audiologists in clinic

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.