Audiologist: Sponsorship Available

Communitas Clinics

Job Summary

Join Our Team as an Audiology Specialist!

Are you passionate about providing high-quality audiology services to patients in need? Do you thrive in a fast-paced healthcare environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to make a difference? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Audiology Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our ENT Intermediate service, you will play a crucial role in providing diagnostic audiology services to NHS patients referred by local GP’s. Your expertise will ensure efficient and effective audiology procedures, maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and technical proficiency.

Main duties of the job

  • Conduct diagnostic hearing tests for patients with Ear Nose and Throat conditions, including audiograms, tympanograms, and pure tone air/bone conduction tests.
  • Ensure prompt referral to ENT specialists when necessary, in accordance with clinical pathways.
  • Maintain open communication with referring GP’s to enhance clinical awareness and collaboration.
  • Adhere to Significant Event Analysis procedures and report untoward events in a timely manner.
  • Collaborate with local Audiology/ENT services and secondary care clinicians to improve patient care pathways.
  • Deliver a quality service in compliance with professional codes of conduct and regulatory standards.
  • Prioritize and manage workload to maintain quality and promote patient safety.
  • Participate in quality governance systems, audits, and evaluations to drive continuous improvement.
  • Support professional development through ongoing learning and training activities.

About us

Communitas Clinics is a provider of NHS community ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) and Dermatology services, operating across London and the South East of England. Patients are referred to our service by their GP, and appropriate referrals are then treated in community settings by specialist clinicians.

Communitas Clinics has grown organically from a small service operating in one London borough, to an organisation employing over 100 staff and serving a population of over 4 million.

We are proud to be a part of the NHS family, and as an NHS third party provider we provide a patient centred service, improving access to advice and information and helping to increase knowledge and awareness of the management of relevant conditions

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Clinical Audiology
  • Worked within national protocols such as BSA, NHSP, BAA
  • Clinical Audit

Qualifications

Essential

  • Clinical Audiology
  • Worked within national protocols such as BSA, NHSP, BAA
  • Clinical Audit
  • Demonstrate reflective practice
  • Hearing aid skills
  • Organisational skills
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Deaf Awareness
  • Good I.T. Skills
  • Microsuction experience
  • BSL stage 1 -2
  • Auditbase

Desirable

  • MSc in related field
  • Course in BSL

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 28 February 2025

To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.