An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 7 Advanced Audiologist / Clinical Scientist to join the Auditory Implant Service at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospital, part of UCLH, one of the UK’s leading specialist NHS trusts.
This post offers the chance to work within a highly specialised, internationally recognised auditory implant service, delivering complex care to paediatric and/ or adult patients using cochlear implants and other implantable hearing technologies.
You will manage a highly specialised clinical caseload with a high degree of autonomy, contribute to service development, and play a key role in education, training, and clinical governance.
Clinical The core of the role is managing a complex, specialist caseload of paediatric cochlear implant patients with a high degree of autonomy. This includes full audiological assessment (behavioural and objective), determining suitability for cochlear implantation, intra-operative measurements, and programming/mapping CI devices from all four manufacturers (Cochlear, Advanced Bionics, MED-EL, Oticon/Neurelec). The post holder also provides ongoing rehabilitation, troubleshooting, and follow-up, and works with families in often emotionally demanding circumstances around diagnosis and post-implantation expectations.
Communication and MDT working A significant part of the role involves communicating complex, sensitive information to patients, parents and carers — including diagnosis of hearing loss, implant suitability, and managing expectations. This includes joint working with speech and language therapists, psychologists, teachers of the deaf, and ENT/AVM consultants, as well as liaising with CI manufacturers and external agencies.
Management and leadership The post holder takes responsibility for day-to-day organisation within the paediatric CI service — including rostering, managing leave and sickness, stock ordering, and ensuring sufficient clinical cover. They line manage junior staff through supervision, appraisal, and objective setting, and support recruitment.
Education and research Training and supervising junior audiologists and students is expected, as is contributing to audit, research, and CPD. There is an expectation of presenting or publishing at a national or international level over time.
Operational Timely and accurate record-keeping in Trust systems (Epic, AuditBase etc.), report writing for GPs and local caregivers, monitoring waiting lists and referral trends, and ensuring equipment calibration and health and safety compliance.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
- University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
- UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
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