Senior Paediatric Audiologist - NHS Lanarkshire

We are looking to recruit a Senior Audiologist to join the Audiology at Princess Gate, Hamilton!

The successful candidate will be a practicing healthcare practitioner, who contributes towards provision of a comprehensive Audiology Service and takes part in contributing to service development and maintains professional standards.

The post holder will assist the Chief Audiologist in the daily clinical work of the department and is responsible for managing own workload and the supervision of Assistant Audiologists, as well as having a lead role in one or more of the specialist areas of Audiology Service provision

This involves comprehensive rehabilitative care, complex diagnostic assessments of hearing, and care for all adult hearing aid users, children of all ages, and their carers/relatives.

The successful candidate will also:

• Demonstrate effective communication and interpersonal skills with other professionals and service users, including patients, carers and relatives.
• Provide clinical assessments and hearing aid programming and provision using complex computer software and specific specialised hardware.

Car driver with a full, valid UK/EU/EEA licence is required for this post.

Contract type

Band 6 / Permanent / Full Time / 37 hours

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

Why join NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service (pro-rata for part time staff)
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee Counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

What we’ll need you to bring

• Registered Audiologist with RCCP (Registration Council of Clinical Physiologists) Initial qualification may be BAAT Parts I and II or BSc Hons Audiology or MSc Audiology.
• Member of British Academy of Audiology.
• The post holder will be knowledgeable and up to date in professional issues, CPD requirements.
•  Will be IT literate and familiar with Word, Practice Navigator.
• Will have developed communication and negotiating skills.
• You will be expected to study to higher levels where appropriate, or to undertake study/training that will assist you in providing a high standard of care in the profession and to maintain a professional CPO portfolio.

It would be great if you also have:

• Clinical experience, theoretical and practical

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Joanne Lydon at Joanne.lydon@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Devon Westwater at Devon.Westwater@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.