Senior Paediatric Audiologist

Barts Health Nhs Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking a senior paediatric audiologist to join the Bart's Paediatric Audiology teams at Waltham Forest and Redbridge. The role is predominantly clinical, covering paediatric assessment, (re)habilitation and some service development, within family-friendly multidisciplinary centres.

The post-holder will work with babies and children, contribute to audits and research, and supervise junior staff. Hospital NHS Trusts support development and high‑quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Specialist Paediatric Audiology experience or equivalent.
• Experience with patient-centred care for children and families.
• Competence in diagnostic procedures and hearing aid fitting for paediatric patients.
• Knowledge of clinical audit, governance and research within audiology.

Responsibilities

• Perform specialised diagnostic procedures and provide comprehensive hearing aid services to children.
• Assist with day-to-day management of Waltham Forest and Redbridge Paediatric Audiology.
• Engage in clinical audit, research and governance activities and contribute to evidence-based protocols.
• Plan workload priorities with Clinical Lead and Operational Service Manager; supervise junior audiologists, trainees and students.
• Demonstrate patient-centred care and collaborate with families across the patient journey.
• Maintain registration with RCCP or HCPC, or be near registration.

Skills

Paediatric audiology

Clinical governance

Audit

Research

Team supervision

Education

BSc in Audiology

Job description

We are seeking an senior paediatric audiologist to join our Bart's Paediatric Audiology multi-disciplinary teams at Waltham Forest and Redbridge. The services are based at Wood St Health Care Centre and Loxford Polyclinic. Predominantly a clinical role, this will keep you busy with a full range of paediatric assessment and (re) habilitation challenges, together with some delegated service development responsibilities.

This interesting specialist role will involve working with babies, children and families in our spacious, family-friendly multi-disciplinary centres and taking on the responsibilities of this role within the dynamic working environment at Bart's will enable clinical and personal development., Whipps Cross Audiology Service provides Newborn Hearing Screening and a tertiary diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology service to children and adults for the London boroughs of Redbridge and Waltham Forest.

The post-holder must be able to:

• Perform specialist diagnostic procedures, and provide a comprehensive specialist hearing aid service to children, including determining care plans for individual patients, and involving carers and families as appropriate
• To assist with the day-to-day management for Waltham Forest and Redbridge Paediatric Audiology
• To take an active role in areas of clinical audit, research and clinical governance for the Audiology service, which may include designing and completing audits within own field, participating in data collection for larger projects, and contributing to the development of evidence base protocols.
• To plan and prioritise elements of own workload, within the framework of service delivery priorities as defined by the Clinical Lead and Operational Service Manager, and supervise the work of other members of the team as appropriate, including junior audiologists, trainees and students.
• You should be able to provide evidence working in a patient-centred way, and value supporting children and families through the wider patient journey. You will be confident working with children, both autonomously and as a flexible team-member. The role demands at least 1 years' experience of working in paediatric audiology (in both behavioural and (re) habilitation.
• You must have a minimum of a BSc in Audiology.
• You should be registered with RCCP, or be registered/close to registration as a clinical scientist with HCPC.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.