Newborn Hearing Screener

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Warwick; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Newborn Hearing Screener to join their outstanding team. This role involves providing essential hearing screenings for newborns, ensuring high-quality care and support for families. The ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, alongside a commitment to professional development through in-house training and external assessments. Join a progressive organization that values safe, effective, and compassionate care, and make a meaningful impact in the lives of newborns and their families.

Qualifications

• Completion of Level 3 Diploma for Health Screeners in Newborn Hearing Screening.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the screening of newborn babies' hearing.
• Gather and record clinical and screen data.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

IT Competence

Self-motivation

Teamwork

Education

Level 3 Diploma for Health Screeners

Job description

Band 3 Newborn Hearing Screener

1 Positions Available: 1 x 18 hrs. per week (3 x 6) hour shifts

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our Newborn Hearing Screening Programme to assist in providing hearing screening for babies born in South Warwickshire.

These positions will include some weekend working.

The successful applicant will undergo in-house practical training, E-learning modules and undertake an external competency assessment. In addition to this will be required to complete a Level 3 Diploma for Health Screeners Newborn hearing Screening, (unless a candidates holds professional registration in a healthcare role).

The successful applicant will have good interpersonal and communication skills and confidence in the handling of newborn babies. They will need to be IT competent, self-motivated and able to manage own workload with an ability to work both within a team and independently.

The Newborn Hearing Screener works as a member of the Newborn Hearing Screening team, participating in the screening of newborn babies hearing under the supervision of the local manager for the Programme. Screening of babies takes place within the Maternity Unit and Special Care Baby Unit at Warwick Hospital, with occasional outpatient clinics at Warwick and Stratford Hospitals.

The role involves gathering and recording clinical and screen data, completing the automated hearing screen and making onward referrals to Audiology where required. This involves direct handling of newborn babies and contact with parents and other professionals.

All newborn hearing screeners must complete Level 3 Diploma for Health Screeners Newborn hearing Screening, (unless a candidate’s holds professional registration in a healthcare role). Screeners will be required to complete, an external competency assessment and eLearning Modules.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Rushton Job title: Local Manager NHSP Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01926 495321

Tel: [phone] ext 4355 4780