Senior Audiologist - Adult Audiology

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Senior Audiologist - Adult Audiology

The closing date is 19 May 2026

We are recruiting for a Senior Audiologist - Adult Audiology (12 months maternity cover) who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

As the Senior Audiologist, you will help develop and grow the service across our multi site locations. We are currently undergoing a major transformation, including significant investments in our facilities.

You'll be part of a team that prides itself on delivering outstanding patient care, underpinned by strong clinical governance, robust training, and a commitment to excellence.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will carry out the routine Audiological Tests with Masking, Maximum Comfortable Level, Loudness Discomfort Level, Tests for Non Organic Hearing Loss, VRA, Tinnitus Match and Masking for all age groups.

You will support senior colleagues in vestibular assessments and rehabilitation clinics.

The post holder will also write full and comprehensive vestibular reports for medical staff including a provisional diagnosis.

Additionally, you will always ensure equipment is adequately maintained and calibrated in accordance to BSA standards.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our approximately 6,000 dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient led Trust where dedicated staff provide high quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification Qualifications/Training

• BSc (Hons) Audiology
• Certificate of clinical competency or equivalent
• MSc Audiology
• AHCS registration
• HCPC (CS) registration

Experience

• Experience in NHS hearing instruments
• Use of Auditbase
• Experience working in NHS
• Experience within adult diagnostics (ABR/VNG/Calorics) and report writing

Skills

• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Good Computer Skills
• Use of Word / Excel / PowerPoint
• Evidence of service development work

Other

• Ability to travel to all hospital locations

Knowledge

• Knowledge Of routine audiological tests
• Knowledge of NHS Hearing aids for Adults & Paeds
• Evidence of Good diagnostic testing skills
• Evidence of Good auditory rehab skills

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust