paediatric Audiologist

NELFT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 4,000 - 6,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in London is seeking a qualified paediatric Audiologist to join their team. This role requires performing hearing assessments for children aged 7 months to 18 years, fitting hearing aids, and managing repair requests. Candidates with experience in Visual Reinforcement Audiometry and Play Audiometry will be prioritized. The organization promotes professional development and offers various benefits, including a commitment to work-life balance and health support.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Health and wellbeing support

Commitment to equality and diversity

High Cost Area Supplement

Qualifications

• Experience in undertaking hearing assessments for children aged 7 months to 18 years.
• Skills in Visual Reinforcement Audiometry, Play Audiometry, and objective testing.
• Experience with hearing aid fittings and managing repairs.

Responsibilities

• Conduct hearing assessments for paediatric patients.
• Fit hearing aids and manage repairs as needed.
• Participate in clinical audits and peer reviews.

Skills

Visual Reinforcement Audiometry

Play Audiometry

Hearing aid fittings

Objective testing (OAEs and tympanometry)

Managing hearing aid repairs

Tools

Patient management system (RIO)

Interacoustics Affinity Compact

Job description

We are looking for an paediatric Audiologist to join our team paediatric department within Children's Community Services, NELFT NHS Foundation Trust. We are a community based department with two sites Harold Wood Clinic, Havering and Child and Family Centre in Barking. We offer a full range of services including seeing children with permanent childhood hearing impairment, fitting hearing aids and working with teachers in local school and speech and language collegues. We also offer support for children with bothersome tinnitus and offer hearing test for those with complex needs.

Main duties of the job

• The service covers Havering, Barking and Dagenham. The successful applicant would work across both sites.
• We are looking to fill a full time post.
• The successful candidate will be required undertaking hearing assessments for children age 7 months - 18 years. This will require skills in Visual Reinforcement Audiometry, Play Audiometry and objective testing (OAEs and tympanometry). Experience is essential but support will also be provided to support the experienced audiologist to integrate into the service.
• The successful candidate will also be required to undertake hearing aid fittings in line with paediatric hearing aid guidelines and manage their time to accommodate hearing aid repairs on Phonak and Oticon hearing aids. Experience in this areas would be beneficial.
• This is an excellent opportunity for any current paediatric audiologist to develop and expand their skills with children with complex needs or for a paediatric audiologist looking to expand their skills with hearing aid fittings and leadership responsiblities in a new team.
• There is opportunities to be involved in VRA peer review, clinical audit and IQUIPs.
• We book patients on the patient management system called RIO and test hearing using the Interacoustics Affinity Compact.
• NELFT as a trust are particularly keen to encourage personal development and any necessary training necessary would be provided.

Working for our organisation

Our Values 2025 - 2030

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period.

High Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941). Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system.

Benefits

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
• As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Other information

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

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