Newborn Hearing Screener

Whittington Maternity Voices Partnership; Chipping Barnet; Presencial; GBP 24.000 - 32.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

Whittington Health is offering an exciting opportunity to join the hospital-based Screening Team as a Newborn Hearing Screener. The role involves working on the postnatal wards, birth centre and neonatal unit with occasional home visits or clinic sessions.

The position is part-time (20 hours across four days) with one weekend in four; work at Barnet hospital and sometimes in clinics or family homes. You must be able to work unsupervised with newborns and families, be computer confident, and

Formación

• Able to work 20 hours across 4 days a week (Mon–Thu) with one weekend in four.
• Work at Barnet hospital and occasionally in outpatients clinics or the parents' home.
• Able to work unsupervised and be confident with new parents and newborn babies.
• Computer confident and keen to learn.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Responsabilidades

• Identify which babies are eligible to screen.
• Speak to parents or carers to gain informed consent and provide outcomes.
• Refer babies where needed.
• Upload data and outcomes to the national database.
• Work independently under Senior Screener supervision after training.

Conocimientos

Excellent communication

Teamwork

Computer confident

Flexible working

Herramientas

Specialist equipment

Descripción del empleo

The Newborn Hearing Screening team mainly work on the post natal wards, the birth centre and the neonatal unit. Sometimes they do a home visit or work in clinic.

The purpose of the hearing screen is to screen all eligible babies within a national timeframe in order to ensure that any baby requiring further testing is seen and assessed appropriately.

The Band 3 hearing screener role includes being able to identify which babies are eligible to screen. Speaking to parents or carers to gain informed consent as well as giving outcomes. Referring babies where needed.

The Hearing screeners use specialist equipment which they check each day before use. They are responsible for uploading their own data and outcoming their results on a national database.

Band 3 hearing screeners all work independently under Senior Screener supervision once training has been given and assessments have been passed.

Newborn Hearing Screener

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our hospital based Screening Team and to be fully trained as a Newborn Hearing Screener.

We are looking for someone who can work flexibly and is able to work 20 across 4 days a week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday- including working 1 weekend (both Saturday and Sunday) in 4. The specific weekend to be worked within the four week cycle shall be scheduled by the employer based on the operational needs with reasonable notice to the employee.

You need to be able to work at Barnet hospital, as well as occasionally working in outpatients clinics or the parents' home.

The successful candidate needs to be able to work unsupervised and to be confident in dealing with new parents and newborn babies.

You must be computer confident and be keen to learn something new.

Excellent communication skills and good team working are essential for this role.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa York Job title: Newborn Hearing Screening Local Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07876740455.

Unfortunately we are unable to offer pre employment visits to the wards for this vacancy.