Job Introduction
SENIOR AUDIOLOGIST: Audiology & Hearing Therapy Department, St Martin’s Hospital, Bath
BAND: 6 (we will accept applications from newly qualified audiologists)
LOCATION: St Martin’s Hospital in Bath with peripheral clinics in Keynsham Health Centre (outskirts of Bristol) and Paulton
Our community audiology service delivers high standards of hearing aid care with a strong focus on rehabilitation. We will allow you sufficient time to talk to your patients as well as complete your clinical tasks.
Our bespoke sound treated clinic rooms have windows with views, and are dedicated for our use and so are comfortable and well maintained. We fit Oticon hearing aids using NOAH link and Auricals. Our team also includes 3 hearing therapists and 3 assistant audiologists.
Main Responsibility
We involve the whole team in discussions about the future of the service and how we can improve things. We have taken part in research projects and offer group sessions whenever we can.
We are looking for an audiologist who enjoys hearing aid rehabilitation.
Our patient feedback is overwhelmingly positive and we are proud of the service we deliver.
We’ll provide regular internal and external training, send you to conferences and regional meetings, provide you with on- line training and information resources and regular peer group clinical supervision sessions.
We might ask you to work a slightly different pattern at busy times but will always do our very best to be reasonable about annual leave requests and your working pattern to ensure you feel valued and needed
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a BSc or BAAT qualifications in Audiology and be fully registered with the RCCP and/or HCPC.
We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads.
Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
Package Description
As a Senior Audiologist, you’ll be part of our valued team at The Audiology & Hearing Therapy Department, St Martin’s Hospital, Bath with peripheral clinics in Keynsham and Paulton (outskirts of Bristol).
You will feel valued as a Senior Audiologist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 by our Chief Executive Dr Vivienne McVey and like-minded colleagues, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.
From around 500 locations across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply. We reserve the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications.
As a Disability Confident Committed company, we work in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to make our business an inclusive place for all.
HCRG Care Group is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our services.
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