Audiology Deputy Site Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an Audiology Deputy Site Lead at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, joining a complex Audiology service. The post involves autonomous practice in adult rehabilitation, including assessments and hearing aid fittings. Key responsibilities include line managing junior staff and leading the site in the absence of the site lead. The successful candidate will also be involved in auditing work to ensure best practice.
Essential criteria
- Educated to post graduate degree level or equivalent level of specialist training / experience in an audiology setting
- Significant experience delivering clinical care in an audiology service
- Experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines
- Attitude and Aptitude
- Ability to cope with competing priorities and demanding / changing workload
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Educated to post graduate degree level or equivalent level of specialist training / experience in an audiology setting
- Significant experience delivering clinical care in an audiology service
- Experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet tight deadlines
- Attitude and Aptitude
- Ability to cope with competing priorities and demanding / changing workload
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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.
Posted 9d ago · Closes in 8d
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Job summary
Join our friendly team based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King's Lynn and enjoy the variety of work that comes from being part of our complex Audiology service. The wider NNUH & QEH team is made up of senior assistant audiologists, associate audiologists, audiologists, Clinical Scientists, hearing therapists and a newborn hearing screening team.
The department offers a complex adult rehabilitative service, tinnitus and hearing therapy services and paediatric assessment and (re)hab service (0-18 years). Domiciliary work is also undertaken.
Our department places an emphasis on quality and raising standards in audiology.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will be somebody who is motivated to deliver a high-quality audiology service to our patients.
The main responsibilities include:
1. Autonomous practice within adult rehabilitation clinics, including hearing assessments and hearing aid fittings
2. Line manage staff Band 5 and below
3. Leading the QEH audiology site in the absence of the site lead
There may be a need to support more junior members of the team and provide advice and guidance to our assistant and associate audiologists.
There is a strong culture of auditing our work to ensure best practice, and we would like the successful candidate to be actively involved in this work.
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