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Main area Audiology Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Part time
* Flexible working
19.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri flexible within an 8am to 6pm pattern) Job ref 409-7362932
Site Southport and Ormskirk Audiology departments Town Southport and Ormskirk Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 05/09/2025 23:59
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Job overview
Looking to build your career in the exciting field of audiology? We are seeking to appoint a calm, compassionate and motivated audiologist to assist us in the delivery of excellent patient-centred clinical care for our local community.
The focus will be on helping your patients achieve their aims by providing the latest hearing aid technology and rehabilitative advice. It is our intention to provide you with the necessary support and additional training to enable you to have a positive impact on someone’s life allowing them to engage in all listening situations as fully as possible.
We have an open management style, value innovation and actively seek new ideas and improvements. The service provides regular staff meetings, appraisal, CPD and training opportunities to nurture your learning and development.
Main duties of the job
To perform and analyse diagnostic hearing assessments on adults and children over the age of 36 months.
Recognizing contraindications to performing further procedures and appropriate referral to ENT, Dressing Clinic, GP, Treatment Rooms and Radiology.
Selection, programming and objective and subjective verification when prescribing hearing aids.
Instruct the patient on the effective use of hearing aids, communicating realistic expectations and limitations of amplification.
Negotiate individual care plans to empower the patient to address their communication and hearing needs.
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
* Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
* Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
* National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Advertising date: 27th August 2025
Proposed Interview date: 25th/26th September 2025
Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Person specification
Skills
* Analysis of test pure tone audiometry and tympanometry results
* Competent use of audiological equipment and software.
* Performing real ear measurements including real ear to coupler difference, RECD.
* I.T Skills
Knowledge and Experience
* Relevant experience at working at Band 5 level
* Evidence of clinical competence
* Knowledge of complex hearing needs
* Knowledge of Tinnitus Retraining and sound therapy
* Experience of fitting advanced digital hearing aids
* Knowledge of Vestibular Function Tests
* Paediatric experience
* Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
Qualifications
* BSc Audiology Degree or equivalent
* RCCP registered/applying
Other
* The post involves sitting, walking and stooping to look in ears and place headsets on the patient in a variety of settings across both sites and community and domiciliary settings
* Good hand to eye coordination and dexterity
* Travelling between hospital and community audiology sites
* Be able to carry equipment and pull a trolley
* The post requires frequent use of concentration in assessing patients and negotiating individual care plans as some appointments last 90 minutes.
* Conveying detailed and complex information to patients and carers where there may be significant communication barriers
* Communicating with a wide variety of people including patients, carers, medical staff, social care and the public
* The post holder will be exposed to sensitive, emotional and occasionally distressing circumstances and may treat people who are at the end of life or aggressive
* The post holder will work in consulting rooms and soundproof booths within the Audiology department and occasionally visit the wards and residential care homes
* Routinely encounters unpleasant smells and sights within the ward and residential home visits
* The soundproof booths and small consulting rooms often become stuffy and can feel claustrophobic
* The post holder will be using a visual display frequently sat at a work station.
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.
Given sometimes we receive a high volume of applications to work for us, please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received from which a shortlist can be confirmed. Therefore, you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.
The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.
If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact Recruitment@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk
We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.
The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.
The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please click here to check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship.
eVisa Update
For successful candidates on selected work and study visa routes, who have completed and paid for their applications will no longer receive a visa vignette in passport as evidence of their permission to enter the UK.
Instead, you will be issued with an eVisa only, which is accessed by creating a UKVI account.
Before travelling to the UK, we advise applicants to:
* Understand how to generate an eVisa share code
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.
If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
Flexible Working
We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:
* · All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
* · There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
* · Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.
At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.
Working for Team MWL
Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. 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.
The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.
You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.
Additional Information
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here .
An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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