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Audiologist - Balance and Complex hearing | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 06 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 March 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M13 9WL |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6919222/349-MRI-6919222 |
Summary
Audiologist band 7 - Balance and Complex Hearing Rehabilitation.
This is a fantastic opportunity to combine your skills in vestibular audiology with complex adult hearing assessment and management. We are an integrated service that provides all hearing and balance services for adults and children under one management structure and within one hospital Trust. We are located in a purpose-built facility with state of the art equipment for balance testing including rotational chair and posturography. The department provides a number of specialist regional and supra-regional services including the Manchester Balance Service, specialist and complex audiology and all types of auditory implants for adults and children. The department attracts complex cases from throughout the region and through our close working relationship with ENT. We have UKAS accreditation for our adult and paediatric services including balance.
You will have a specialist knowledge and experience of balance assessment and rehabilitation and have an interest in providing adult audiology services for patients with more complex hearing needs. Additional training and support will be given where required. The department has close educational and research links to the University of Manchester. Successful candidates should have a recognised higher level of training and experience in Audiology.
You will provide comprehensive assessment and rehabilitation of adults and older children with balance problems using a full range of diagnostic balance equipment. In addition, you will be part of the clinic providing hearing assessment and rehabilitation to adults with complex hearing needs
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.
Please see attached job description. You will be a key member of the complex hearing and balance services at Manchester Foundation Trust. You will have clinical responsibility for assessing patients referred to the Manchester Balance Service using state of the art equipment. You will provide treatment plans in conjunction with colleagues and ENT staff. You will be part of the MFT balance multidisciplinary team meeting. Your role with also involve the management or patients seen within special hearing assessment and rehabilitation clinics using a range of hearing devices to manage hearing difficulties
This advert closes on Thursday 20 Feb 2025
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