Trainee Paediatric Audiologist

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Hearing and Balance Service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals are looking for an experienced B5 Audiologist who would like to train into paediatrics. This role will initially start as a band 5 role and then upon successful completion of your training into paediatrics it will become a band 6 role. We are committed to providing the highest quality care for its patients whilst embodying the core values of the Leeds Way.

Based in a newly developed department at Seacroft Hospital just outside Leeds City Centre, the Hearing and Balance Service provides modern facilities and a comprehensive range of services, across multiple sites for patients of all ages including implantable devices and vestibular assessments. Due to the range of services provided, opportunities exist for training and development into specialist areas and staff can be supported through the Higher Training Scheme.

The Hearing and Balance Service offers an open and inclusive culture for its staff, valuing the input from the whole team to help guide and shape the delivery of the service.

Interviews will take place on the 24th April 2025.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within a multidisciplinary team across multiple sites to provide a comprehensive paediatric diagnostic and habilitation service for children & their families with hearing difficulties. The paediatric team works as autonomous practitioners within the service and are to be able to develop, lead improvements, maximising the benefit for patients. You will be performing a wide range of diagnostic testing on all patient groups, in addition to providing highly effective habilitation and on-going maintenance care plans for patients with complex hearing losses, tinnitus, patients with Bone Anchored Hearing Aids, ENT patients, and Oncology patients. There is scope to support the department in many exciting initiatives and develop the service with continuous improvement cycles. The department is also working towards IQIPs accreditation.

About us

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the UK. Every year, LTHT provides healthcare and specialist services for people from the city of Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber and beyond. The Trust plays an important role in training and education. LTHT is rated as a good hospital Trust by the Care Quality Commission, and has a strategy to continue improving to provide outstanding care for patients. Care and clinical expertise is spread over seven hospitals and medical facilities:

• Leeds General Infirmary (LGI)
• St James University Hospital (including Leeds Cancer Centre)
• Seacroft Hospital
• Wharfedale Hospital

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work within a multidisciplinary team across multiple sites to provide a comprehensive paediatric diagnostic and habilitation service for children & their families with hearing difficulties. The paediatric team works as autonomous practitioners within the service and are to be able to develop, lead improvements, maximising the benefit for patients. You will be performing a wide range of diagnostic testing on all patient groups, in addition to providing highly effective habilitation and on-going maintenance care plans for patients with complex hearing losses, tinnitus, patients with Bone Anchored Hearing Aids, ENT patients, and Oncology patients. There is also scope to support the department in many exciting initiatives and develop the service with continuous improvement cycles. The department is also working towards IQIPs accreditation.

Person Specification

Skills & behaviours

• Ability to communicate with staff and others
• Good personal time management.
• Team player.
• Ability to contribute to problem solving.
• Ability to accommodate change.
• Evidence of CPD.
• Evidence of reflective practice.
• Good communication skills in general and those additional skills associated with communicating with the deaf and hard of hearing.

Experience

• Experience of working within a clinical setting e.g. during the degree programme.
• Micro budgetary administration. Supervision of support staff.
• Any relevant additional knowledge/skills, pertinent to the post applied for.
• To be a reflective practitioner and utilise reflective practice to develop skills.
• To be empathetic to the needs of our patients, understanding the philosophy that underpins aspects of deaf culture and the needs of the hearing impaired.
• Deliver safe practice as part of good clinical governance.
• Patience and understanding.
• Rigour when contributing to research and audit.
• Responsibilities for relevant issues outside the NHS.
• Evidence of contribution to research/audit.
• Evidence of contribution to projects.

Additional Requirements

• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy.
• Post holder must be willing to travel to outreach sites across the city of Leeds to deliver clinics.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Audiology from an accredited University OR Equivalent qualifications (until 2005).
• Be registered with an appropriate registration body.
• Evidence of learning from other professionally appropriate sources, supervisory experience.
• Evidence of reflective practice.
• Evidence of learning from relevant professional courses/seminars.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.