Senior Assistant Technical Officer - Audiology | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,625 - £25,674 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5JL |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7317818/432-HR429-25 |
Summary
We are looking for a Senior Assistant Technical Officer to assist with the adult hearing aid service, the assessment of children's hearing and administrative support of the Hearing Services Team. The post is based at the Primary Care Centre Colchester, with travel to other clinical sites including Clacton Hospital and Harwich Hospital.
Please note, this is a permanent part time post at 33.75 hours per week.
You should have experience of working with young children and adults, have an interest in helping people who have hearing problems and an awareness of the difficulties they may encounter.
Training and support will be given to ensure that the successful candidate is able to deliver in this role.
If you have a flexible approach, good communication skills and are a team player, than this could be the role for you.
· Responsible for the provision of routine hearing aid maintenance and repair clinic.
· Responsible for the provision of postal repair service.
· Responsible for instructing patients on use of hearing aids as part of the hearing aid fitting service.
· Taking ear mould impressions for new and existing hearing aid users.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Jul 2025