A Vacancy at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

We’re offering an exciting opportunity for a skilled Audiologist to take the next step into a leadership role within our vibrant and fast-paced audiology team. This position involves clinical responsibility for patients with learning disabilities and dementia, leading a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality assessment and rehabilitation services tailored to their needs.

This position involves providing clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary team comprising audiologists, audiology assistants, and administrative staff. The successful candidate will also collaborate closely with a range of professionals, including Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, ENT consultants, and referrers across the region, to ensure thedelivery of high-quality, patient-centred care.

The role involves conducting both routine and complex hearing assessments, as well as hearing aid fittings. Responsibilities include

Leading the service for the delivery of assessments and management for patients with learning disabilities and dementia and working with other departments within the trust to identify and support these patients,carrying out clinical audits, observing and supporting staff development, representing the audiology department in external meetings, and assisting in the overall management of the service in the absence of the Head of Service.

The successful candidate needs to have significant experience in undertaking assessments on patient's with learning difficulties and dementia and working within teams to deliver these services in a specialist setting

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

This advert closes on Sunday 9 Nov 2025