Job overview

Band 6 Audiologist Manchester Royal Infirmary - Part-time (30hours), 12month fixed term maternity leave cover 

We are looking for a dynamic audiologist/healthcare scientist to join our adult audiology team at Manchester Royal Infirmary. The Audiology department is unique in providing all hearing services for adults and children under one management structure and within one hospital Trust. The department provides a number of specialist regional and supra-regional services including bone conduction hearing devices and cochlear implants. The service attracts complex cases from throughout the region and through our close working with ENT and other medical professions within the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.   We have UKAS accreditation for adult and paediatric services.

 You will have an interest and experience working in vestibular assessment and rehab and complex adult audiology . Further training will be provided as needed.

Successful candidates should have a BSc / PTP or STP in Audiology or equivalent levels of training and have vestibular assessment and rehabilitation experience. 

For informal enquiries please contact Danny Kearney, Adult Audiology lead,  Audiology by email [email protected] 

Main duties of the job

The role includes a mixture of vestibular assessment using vHIT,  BPPV assessments, VNG, VEMPs, Calorics and non-routine tests such as rotatory chair testing. IT also includes routine vestibular rehabilitation for patients with migraine, PPPD, unilateral and/ or bilateral vestibular weaknesses. Furthermore the role will also include a mixture of non-routine adult hearing aid work and some work within the BAHA service. 

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.