Paediatric Audiologist | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Burnley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Burnley is seeking a full-time Paediatric Audiologist to conduct hearing assessments and support children’s auditory health. The role involves working with a multidisciplinary team, fitting hearing aids, and maintaining patient records. The ideal candidate will have a professional registration, the ability to travel between clinics, and experience with children. This position offers a chance to make a meaningful impact on children's lives through high-quality audiology services.

Qualifications

• Ability to carry out routine hearing assessments on children aged six months and older.
• Experience with hearing aids fittings and maintaining patient records.
• Flexibility to travel to community clinics.

Responsibilities

• Conducting audiology assessments and explaining results.
• Communicating information within the multidisciplinary team.
• Fitting and verifying hearing aids.

Skills

Understanding of professional guidance

Ability to work autonomously

Experience in multidisciplinary teamwork

Basic knowledge of tinnitus counselling

Education

Professional registration with AHCS or HCPC

Recent CPD record

Job description

We have an opportunity for a full time Paediatric Audiologist to join our team of Audiologists, Clinical Scientists, Assistant Audiology Practitioners and Medics in East Lancashire. The service is based in Burnley and holds clinics across the Pennine Lancashire area. We are closely linked with the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme at Lancashire Women’s and Newborn Centre, and are part of an active multidisciplinary network, the East Lancashire Children’s Hearing Services Working Group.

The post holder will be carrying out routine hearing assessments on children aged six months and older working with an Assistant Practitioner, or more senior colleague for complex assessments. They will work within the wider multidisciplinary team and with children’s families to formulate and implement management plans when hearing loss is confirmed. There will be responsibility for leading appointments to fit hearing aids to children with permanent and temporary hearing loss, and for reviewing these patients, carrying out real ear measurements and aided and unaided speech testing. A basic knowledge of tinnitus counselling/hearing therapy is expected. Experience in electrophysiological assessments would be desirable, but is not essential.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a good understanding of current, relevant professional guidance and recommended procedures, be able to work autonomously and have a recent CPD record. Knowledge of clinical governance and safeguarding processes is essential. The ability and flexibility to travel to community clinics, sometimes during the working day, is necessary. The successful candidate will hold professional registration with the AHCS as a Healthcare Scientist or HCPC as a Clinical Scientist, and will be able to provide evidence of working within a multidisciplinary team.

The Paediatric Audiology service in East Lancashire is based in Burnley, and holds regular clinics at clinical sites in Bacup and Blackburn, as well as in Children's Centres and Family Hubs where we provide counselling and hearing aid care in a less formal environment. Our catchment encompasses many rural villages, and we work closely with other professionals such as Health Visitors and Teachers of the Hearing impaired to support families to attend appointments and best support their child's development.

We are a small team, and as such work well together, maintaining regular communication even when working across multiple sites. Our clerical team based in Burnley provide comprehensive support to clinicians and families, and together we aim to provide a high quality, family friendly service.

• Taking audiology history from families, carrying out audiology assessments and explaining the results of these
• Keeping accurate and complete electronic patient records
• Communicating information within the multidisciplinary team using written and verbal methods
• Taking ear mould impressions and fitting/verifying hearing aid fittings
• Understanding NHS referral pathways and making onward referrals, for example for cochlear implant assessment, when indicated and with the consent of the family
• Supporting senior staff with service development and research
• Supervising students on placement and junior staff
• Attending training relevant to the role and disseminating information to colleagues
• Working autonomously and managing own workload

This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Dec 2025