New-born Hearing Screener/Senior Screener

NHS; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a New-born Hearing Screener/Senior Screener to carry out screenings of new-borns within maternity units. The ideal candidate must have relevant training and experience, effective communication skills, and the ability to work under pressure in a team. This position offers a chance to contribute to vital newborn healthcare and promote family-friendly care.

Qualifications

• Literate and numerate.
• Experience in patient care in a hospital or community setting.
• Experience of undertaking screening across all areas including complex cases.

Responsibilities

• Liaise effectively with parents, team members, and other health care professionals.
• Carry out the screening of new-borns within the maternity unit.
• Maintain the confidentiality of the babies and their families at all times.

Skills

Ability and confidence to handle newborn babies

Communication with multiprofessional groups

Intermediate IT Skills

Ability to work individually and as part of a team

Ability to chair staff meetings

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Relevant training certificates related to Newborn hearing screening

Qualified Newborn Hearing Screener with experience

Management qualification or willing to undertake

Level 3 diploma in Health Screening

Job description

Go back East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

New-born Hearing Screener/Senior Screener

The closing date is 14 October 2025

We are recruiting for a New-born Hearing Screener/Senior Screener who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

A key part of this role is to work with the Local Co-Ordinator to ensure the delivery of the New-born Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) within the timeframes in hospital and community settings and to identify which babies require screening.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The New-born Screening Hearing Screener will need to liaise effectively with parents, team members and other health care professionals.

The successful candidate will carry out the screening of new-borns within the maternity unit and accurately record clinical and test data.

You will promote a professional, welcoming and caring environment endorsing a Family Friendly approach to care at all times.

The post holder will ensure they maintain up-to-date knowledge of procedures and policies relevant to this post.

You will also maintain the confidentiality of the babies and their families at all times.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and 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 (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

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 and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

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

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

• Literate and numerate
• Relevant training certificates related to Newborn hearing screening
• Qualified Newborn Hearing Screener with experience
• Management qualification or willing to undertake
• Level 3 diploma in Health Screening

Previous Experience

• Hospital or community experience in patient care
• Experience in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of undertaking screening across all areas including complex cases.
• Experience in day-to-day supervision of staff and Staff development

Skills

• Ability and confidence to handle newborn babies
• Communication with multiprofessional groups
• Intermediate IT Skills
• Ability to work individually and as part of a team
• Ability to chair staff meetings
• Ability to work under pressure

Knowledge

• To be able to understand the process and methodology that is involved with the actual hearing screening test and its application.

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
• Ability to travel easily between Trust sites
• Role model our Trust values every day

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust