Specialist audiologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 19/08/2026
- Closes
- 02/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and advice to adult audiology patients, particularly those with complex tinnitus needs. The audiologist will work autonomously, often in community locations, and is responsible for maintaining clinical standards and contributing to service development. Key duties include patient management plans, referrals, and specialist tinnitus strategies. This is a fixed-term, full-time position.
Key responsibilities
- Provide specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and advice to patients and their carers, focusing on adult audiological assessment and management of tinnitus.
- Work autonomously without direct supervision, including lone working at various community locations.
- Ensure clinical and professional standards are maintained and provide evidence of continuous professional development (CPD).
- Develop individual management plans for every patient and accurately inform referring health professionals of diagnoses and care packages.
- Perform prescription fitting, evaluation, and exchange of non-standard hearing aids, including CROS aids and Bone Anchored Hearing Aids.
- Provide appropriate assessment and specialist tinnitus management strategies for patients with bothersome and non-bothersome tinnitus.
Essential criteria
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Desirable criteria
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
- General Requirements
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
The purpose of this role is to provide specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment and advice to patients and their carers. The specialist area is adult audiological assessment and management of tinnitus, many having complex needs and/or presentations. This includes activities which are complex and non-routine
The Audiologist performs work involving specific areas of responsibility. They work autonomously without direct supervision and at times lone working at a variety of community locations. They are able to provide supervision, training and support to staff in junior positions.
They are expected to ensure that clinical and professional standards are maintained at all times and be expected to provide evidence of CPD.
They are expected to work with managers to develop the service in line with patient need and trust wide developments and to help provide an equitable service across the trust.
Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.
About us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our c
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