Audiologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 Audiologist to join the existing Team within Oxleas. The service covers Tier 2 Children's Audiology assessments for the boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich. This post will cover 3 sites: Acorns at Queen Mary's Hospital (DA14), Highpoint House (SE18) and Erith Health Centre (DA8).Main duties of the job To ensure an effective audiological service is provided to all children in Bexley in association with other health professionals and colleagues from other agencies. To provide specialised advice and support to parents and carers. To work autonomously in providing a Community Paediatric Audiology Service, providing hearing assessments and ongoing monitoring of hearing, including a service for children with sensory-neural hearing loss. To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and team's clinical practice, making recommendations to clinical lead and, when appropriate, lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care