Audiologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 26
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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 is an early-career Audiologist role, suitable for a fully qualified clinician, focusing on diagnostic hearing assessments and hearing-aid-based rehabilitation. The position involves autonomous clinical practice, patient counselling, and equipment management. The post holder will also supervise or train less experienced staff and act as a point of contact for junior colleagues. It requires maintaining clinical records and contributing to service quality.
Essential criteria
- BSc Audiology Degree or equivalent
- RCCP Registered or if newly qualified working towards registration
- Relevant experience at working at Band 5 level
- Evidence of clinical competence
- Experience of fitting advanced digital hearing aids
- Analysis of test pure tone audiometry and tympanometry results
- Competent use of audiological equipment and software
- Performing real ear measurements including real ear to coupler difference, RECD
- I.T Skills
- Other
- The post involves sitting, walking and stooping to look in ears and place headsets on the patient in a variety of settings across both sites and community and domiciliary settings
- Good hand to eye coordination and dexterity
- Travelling between hospital and community audiology sites
- Be able to carry equipment and pull a trolley
- The post requires frequent use of concentration in assessing patients and negotiating individual care plans as some appointments last 90 minutes.
- Conveying detailed and complex information to patients and carers where there may be significant communication barriers
- Communicating with a wide variety of people including patients, carers, medical staff, social care and the public
- The post holder will be exposed to sensitive, emotional and occasionally distressing circumstances and may treat people who are at the end of life or aggressive
- The post holder will work in consulting rooms and soundproof booths within the Audiology department and occasionally visit the wards and residential care homes
- Routinely encounters unpleasant smells and sights within the ward and residential home visits
- The soundproof booths and small consulting rooms often become stuffy and can feel claustrophobic
- The post holder will be using a visual display frequently sat at a work station.
- BSc Audiology Degree or equivalent
- RCCP Registered or if newly qualified working towards registration
- Relevant experience at working at Band 5 level
- Evidence of clinical competence
- Experience of fitting advanced digital hearing aids
- Analysis of test pure tone audiometry and tympanometry results
- Competent use of audiological equipment and software
- Performing real ear measurements including real ear to coupler difference, RECD
- I.T Skills
- Other
- The post involves sitting, walking and stooping to look in ears and place headsets on the patient in a variety of settings across both sites and community and domiciliary settings
- Good hand to eye coordination and dexterity
- Travelling between hospital and community audiology sites
- Be able to carry equipment and pull a trolley
- The post requires frequent use of concentration in assessing patients and negotiating individual care plans as some appointments last 90 minutes.
- Conveying detailed and complex information to patients and carers where there may be significant communication barriers
- Communicating with a wide variety of people including patients, carers, medical staff, social care and the public
- The post holder will be exposed to sensitive, emotional and occasionally distressing circumstances and may treat people who are at the end of life or aggressive
- The post holder will work in consulting rooms and soundproof booths within the Audiology department and occasionally visit the wards and residential care homes
- Routinely encounters unpleasant smells and sights within the ward and residential home visits
- The soundproof booths and small consulting rooms often become stuffy and can feel claustrophobic
- The post holder will be using a visual display frequently sat at a work station.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Part Time Hours - 26 hours per week
Three days - flexible depending on the needs of the service
This early-career role is suitable for a fully qualified clinician to deliver routine diagnostic hearing assessments and provides hearing-aid-based rehabilitation. The role combines autonomous clinical practice, patient counselling, equipment management, and contribution to service quality.
Main duties of the job
The main purpose of this role is to provide a range of clinical care working in one or more specialist areas of audiology.
The post holder is responsible for maintaining clinical records in relation to the activities carried out.
The post holder will also supervise or train less experienced staff, assess and supervise students and be a point of contact for junior staff regarding routine cases, and provide advice regarding the specialist area(s) they work in.
The post holder may also lead a team working in a specialist area.
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross M
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