Audiology Associate Practitioner: Sponsorship Available
Job Title: Audiology Associate Practitioner
Agency: Hywel Dda University Health Board
Location: Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom, Wales
Salary/Rate: 27,898 to £ 30,615 / Year
Job Summary
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The Associate Practitioner in Audiology will provide interventions with routine/non-complex hearing pathologies/disabilities for the county of Carmarthenshire as part of the Hywel Dda Audiology Service.
The post holder will be based at one of the main hospital locations but will be expected to travel between sites. The post will involve developing the individual care/management plan with appropriate accountability to the Audiologist.
The Associate Audiologist is not an independent practitioner, and it is anticipated that training, clinical supervision, and mentoring will be planned during the normal schedule of the working day.
The Associate Practitioner will have obtained appropriate education, training, and skills in hearing testing, fitting of hearing aids, and working to locally and nationally agreed protocols in conjunction with the scope of practice and accountability.
Main duties of the job
- To help manage the daily requirements of Audiology Services across the health board in response to service demands.
- To provide and assist with basic adult hearing aid rehabilitation and to deliver the patient’s individual management plan (under indirect supervision).
- To perform routine Audiological investigations such as puretone audiometry for hearing aid re-assessments, aural impressions, and programming and evaluation of hearing aid systems, which would include real ear measurements.
- To assess needs, plan and implement appropriate rehabilitation strategies for new and existing hearing aid users.
- To explain and advise on the intervention strategy, discussing decisions with patients/significant parties, and amending when necessary.
- Obtaining suitable ear impressions for the manufacture of ear moulds and the selection of suitable ear moulds.
- The selection, testing, and acoustic fitting of the latest technology hearing aids to the required protocols and procedures. Using the latest computerised systems to programme the specified hearing aid. Fine-tuning the amplification according to patient feedback and interpretation of outcome measures.
- To provide a hearing aid maintenance and repair service. This will include cleaning, modification, repair or replacement, advice, basic counselling, and instruction services.
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