Audiology offers a rewarding professional career. Due to Department of Health modernisation plans, Audiology is continuing to undergo rapid expansion including major changes in the provision of Audiology services.
This course has been commissioned by the Department of Health, primarily to address the shortfall in the numbers of suitably qualified staff within the NHS and prepare people for work as audiologists within that sector, although there are also career opportunities within private healthcare sector and in teaching and research.
The profession is currently developing a Higher Training Scheme to support progression to senior and ultimately consultant levels within the profession (see the British Academy of Audiology web site for further details).
Students graduating from the programme will be eligible for State Registration with the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (Audiology) and the starting salary as a newly qualified Audiologist is likely to be in Band 5 of the NHS pay scale. (See the NHS Employers web site for further details).
