Senior Audiologist

Senior Audiologist

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

The closing date is 29 October 2025

We are looking for an enthusiastic and well-motivated individual to join our large, friendly, multi-disciplinary Audiology team. This role can provide additional responsibility in mentoring junior audiologists and providing supervision over them. This allows you to share your knowledge within the field to ensure the development of Audiology. Furthermore, this allows you to master your craft within your given specialism in Audiology. The Audiologist works in a range of settings with patients suffering from hearing difficulties, their family and other carers.

Main duties of the job

• Work independently within occupational perform a range of routine and specialist audiology activities, including hearing assessments, hearing aid assessments, fitting, repair and maintenance with adults and/or children, including those with learning disabilities and difficult audiometric configurations.
• Supervises and/or trains less experienced staff/students/trainees.
• May lead team for own work area.

To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate QEHKL values of Kindness, Wellness and Fairness and demonstrate behaviours that support and encourage an inclusive culture.

About us

There's never been a more exciting time to join Team QEH. We're working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital in 2031/32 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we've ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At the QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as 'Good', and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.

Job responsibilities

For more information regarding this opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification Qualifications/training and professional development

• BSc in Audiology or equivalent qualifications
• Evidence of ongoing CPD
• To undertake ongoing CPD to ensure clinical skills are maintained
• To keep up to date with clinical and IT developments within the department to ensure standards of service are maintained and enhanced
• To keep abreast of national and international developments in Audiology by reading scientific literature and attending scientific meetings.
• Registered with appropriate registration body (AHCS or HCPC)

Experience

• Significant experience as a Band 5 in Audiology is required.
• IT skills; experience in database operation and the use of spreadsheets

Skills, abilities, and knowledge

• Knowledge of recent clinical and service developments within Audiology
• Knowledge of Audiology IT systems including NOAH, hearing aid programming software and patient management systems
• Excellent communication and patient handling skills
• Sign Language skills
• Teaching and training 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.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

Address

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

426-000-25CC

Job locations

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust