Highly Specialist Paediatric Audiologist

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Job overview

We’re looking for a Highly Specialist Paediatric Audiologist to join our dedicated team and help shape the future of paediatric audiology services across our three hospital sites in Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City, and Hertford.

At our Trust, our values are Include, Respect, and Improve—these principles guide everything we do, and we’re looking for someone who shares this vision.

What You’ll Do:

• Work at a senior level within the Paediatric Audiology team
• Travel between our three hospital sites
• Contribute to a major service improvement initiative led by our Head of Audiology, Dawn Bramham
• Play a key role in clinical assessments, observations, and governance
• Support the Paediatric Service Lead in delivering high-quality, patient-focused care

What We’re Looking For:

• A forward-thinking, motivated audiologist with a strong interest in paediatrics
• A willingness to lead and support change as part of a wider service transformation
• A team player committed to continual improvement and professional development

We’re currently facing an exciting period of change and encourage anyone interested to reach out and discuss the role further with our Head of Audiology. If you don’t meet every essential requirement but feel ready to grow into this position with the right support, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Select, fit hearing aids where appropriate and rehabilitate routine and complex babies and children.

Perform and interpret diagnostic tests and explain the results of these tests to patients, relatives and carers in an appropriate and empathetic manner, being sensitive to the complex communication difficulties of patients who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Have a multi-agency approach to audiological care and understand the role of the RNID and National Deaf Children’s Society and NHSP.

Supervise/observe and assess audiologists and students as and when required and will be responsible for appraisals of lower grade staff.

Be professionally and clinically responsible and accountable for all aspects of their own work, updating knowledge and skills to maintain continuing professional development.

Modify patient’s ear moulds to facilitate comfort of fit and/or modify to change.

Have specialised knowledge of paediatric audiology and be able to perform a range of routine and complex

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

The service is looking forward to major service transformation in the next year. Applicants are encouraged to contact Dawn Bramham, Head of Audiology to discuss the role further, and arrange informal visits. If you do not meet all of the essential criteria but think you might be ready to step into these roles with support, please get in touch.

Person specification

Skills

• Good Communication Skills to deal with general public enquiries.
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to lead a team of audiologists
• Good Computer Skills
• Knowledge of routine audiological tests
• Knowledge of NHS Hearing aids for Adults & Paeds Implants criteria

• Previous experience of overseeing Student trainees
• Experience of team leadership
• Evidence of service development work
• Research / clinical auditing

Previous Experience

• Assessing babies and children’s hearing using behavioural testing, VRA, Play/Performance Audiometry, Speech testing
• Use of questionnaires
• Paediatric Rehabilitation including hearing aid fitting and adjustment
• NHS Experience as an employee
• Experience with difficult or challenging situation

• Diagnostic Auditory Brainstem response testing experience.

Qualifications / Training

• BSc (Hons) Audiology BAAT Part II or CAC or CCC Membership of BAA / BSA
• Evidence of relevant CPD training
• RCCP / HCPC membership

• MSc Audiology RCCP / HCPC membership Clinical Scientist registration
• Completed HTS Modules
• Other post-graduate qualification Stage 1 or above BSL

Other requirements

• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect

We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [email protected]

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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Secondments/Fixed term

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

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