Associate Audiologist | Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 May 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £25,147 - £27,596 £25,147 - £27,596 |
| Oriau: | Part time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 June 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Wigan, WN1 1RU |
| Cwmni: | Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6238775/302-24-6238775 |
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An opportunity has arisen to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Associate Audiologist. You will hold an appropriate qualification and professional registration in Audiology.
This post will enable you to consolidate your previous experience whilst developing new skills. We have an established preceptorship programme and ongoing peer review designed to give support and encouragement in a structured approach. Staff also have annual individual performance reviews.
The department also offers a tinnitus counselling service, vestibular assessments, Learning Disability clinics and complex needs clinics.
Audiology services are based at The Thomas Linacre Centre and Leigh Infirmary. This is a busy, friendly department providing adult Audiology services to 4 ENT consultants and a population of 306,000 people.
We have IQIPs accreditation and are a very progressive department. We have excellent links with local social services, paediatric audiology and Manchester University. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our service and have won many Trust innovation awards.
Your main duties will include hearing aid reassessments and change overs including verification; hearing aid follow ups and repairs.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
To provide a variety of basic hearing aid repairs, follow ups and reassessments.
You will work with the support of a multidisciplinary team of hearing health care professionals.
Check patient's ears using an Otoscope using disposable tips and following infection control policies. Recognise anatomical landmarks and abnormalities.
Perform routine hearing tests, including screening and threshold of air and bone conduction audiometry under indirect supervision of an audiologist.
Perform routine re- assessments of hearing levels for existing hearing aid users under
indirect supervision of an audiologist. Advise patients if their hearing thresholds have changed and of the most appropriate hearing aid provision available to them.
Perform hearing aid repairs and modifications, including retubing, replacing elbows and
batteries drawers.
Work alone and use initiative to respond to changes in patients’ needs using information provided by the patient.
Retube and modify earmolds using a drill, grinder and buffer, following health and safety policy.
Take an accurate and safe aural impression of the patient's ear following the BSA
guidelines. Use the patient management software to select the correct vent size and ear moulds in accordance with the patient’s hearing loss.
This advert closes on Thursday 23 May 2024