- The Audiologist will provide comprehensive diagnostic, rehabilitative, and preventive hearing and balance services for adult and paediatric patients at the African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE).
- The role holder will conduct advanced audiological assessments, support the management of hearing and vestibular disorders, select and fit hearing technologies, counsel patients and families, and work closely with ENT and multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, evidence-based, patient-centred care.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities
- Obtain relevant clinical histories and perform otoscopic examination and age-appropriate behavioural hearing assessments.
- Conduct and interpret pure-tone and speech audiometry, tympanometry, acoustic reflex testing, otoacoustic emissions, and other middle- and inner-ear assessments.
- Perform or support electrophysiological testing, including auditory brainstem response and auditory steady-state response, in accordance with scope of practice and clinical protocols.
- Conduct vestibular assessments and contribute to the evaluation of patients presenting with dizziness, imbalance, tinnitus, or suspected auditory processing difficulties.
- Prepare clear diagnostic reports, communicate findings, and make timely referrals for medical, surgical, rehabilitative, or educational intervention.
Hearing Rehabilitation & Patient Care
- Develop individualised audiological management plans in partnership with patients, families, carers, and referring clinicians.
- Select, fit, verify, programme, and review hearing aids and other assistive listening devices using recognised clinical protocols.
- Provide counselling on hearing loss, tinnitus, communication strategies, device use, hearing conservation, and realistic rehabilitation outcomes.
- Support cochlear implant and other implantable hearing-device pathways, including candidacy assessment, counselling, activation, mapping support, and follow-up where applicable.
- Provide paediatric and adult aural rehabilitation and coordinate onward referral to speech and language therapy, education, psychology, or other services as required.
Multidisciplinary & Integrated Care
- Work closely with ENT surgeons, physicians, paediatricians, neurologists, nurses, speech and language therapists, and other allied health professionals.
- Participate in multidisciplinary clinics and case conferences, contributing specialist audiological advice to diagnosis and treatment planning.
- Support hearing screening and monitoring pathways for at-risk patients, including those exposed to ototoxic medicines, noise, or complex medical treatment.
- Promote accessible communication and inclusive care for people with hearing impairment across AMCE services.
Quality Assurance, Equipment & Governance
- Operate, check, and maintain audiological equipment and test environments, coordinating calibration, servicing, infection prevention, and fault escalation.
- Ensure practice complies with applicable Nigerian regulatory requirements, AMCE policies, manufacturer instructions, and recognised professional standards.
- Maintain accurate, timely, confidential records and monitor clinical outcomes, service activity, waiting times, and device performance.
- Participate in audit, incident review, quality improvement, protocol development, stock control, and the safe management of hearing devices and consumables.
Education, Prevention & Service Development
- Educate patients, families, staff, and community stakeholders on hearing health, early identification, prevention, and rehabilitation.
- Contribute to hearing-conservation, screening, outreach, and health-promotion initiatives aligned with AMCE priorities.
- Support the training and supervision of interns, students, technicians, and other staff within the limits of professional competence.
- Maintain continuing professional development and contribute to service evaluation, research, and evidence-based improvement of audiology services.
Demonstrated competence in adult and paediatric diagnostic audiology and hearing-device selection, fitting, verification, and follow-up.
- Bachelor's degree in Audiology, Speech Therapy and Audiology, or an equivalent recognised qualification; a relevant master's or clinical doctorate is advantageous.
- Current registration with the Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board of Nigeria (MRTB) and a valid practising licence, or eligibility to obtain both before appointment.
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development in diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology.
- Additional certification or advanced training in paediatric audiology, vestibular assessment, electrophysiology, tinnitus, or implantable hearing devices is advantageous.
- Minimum of 5 years' post-qualification clinical audiology experience, preferably within a tertiary, specialist, or multidisciplinary hospital environment.
- Demonstrated competence in adult and paediatric diagnostic audiology and hearing-device selection, fitting, verification, and follow-up.
- Practical experience with electrophysiological and/or vestibular assessment is strongly preferred.
- Experience with hearing screening, ototoxicity monitoring, cochlear implant pathways, tinnitus management, or aural rehabilitation is advantageous.
- Strong analytical, documentation, counselling, teamwork, and patient-communication skills.
- Commitment to ethical practice, safeguarding, infection prevention, equipment quality assurance, and continuous professional development.