Band 3 Senior Audiology Assistant

Job Overview

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and self- motivated paediatric senior audiology assistant to join the Community Paediatric Audiology Assessment Service. We are a small, busy team of community based paediatric audiologists and senior audiology assistants carrying out diagnostic paediatric hearing assessments in satellite clinical venues in and around Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and self- motivated paediatric senior audiology assistant to join the Community Paediatric Audiology Assessment Service. We are a small, busy team of community based paediatric audiologists and senior audiology assistants carrying out diagnostic paediatric hearing assessments in satellite clinical venues in and around Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We are looking for an experienced, self-motivated senior audiology assistant to help deliver a high quality diagnostic assessment service to children aged between 6 months and 19 years in the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland area.

Applicants will have excellent time management and organisational skills to manage and prioritise demanding workloads and will need to be a flexible team player. You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work sensitively and effectively with children and families, in addition to being able to work calmly and methodically under pressure.

This service delivers paediatric assessments only, for children aged from 7 months through to 19 years - there is no rehabilitation element to this role.

Sania Ali.

The principle role of this post within the Paediatric Audiology Service is to assist and support qualified paediatric audiologists in the provision and delivery of behavioural and objective diagnostic assessment of babies and young children. This includes:

• Supporting children and families to engage in the assessment process, including management of children with complex needs and/or challenging behaviour during testing
• to independently consider and deliver specific distraction and play activities, based on an individual child’s level of engagement and cognitive ability, in order to manage and maintain their interest and optimal attention levels throughout the testing process.
• to take a joint responsibility with the paediatric audiologist in analysing and evaluating the reliability of a child’s responses to sounds during behavioural testing
• to independently condition a child, through play activities, to enable reliable and secure responses to be gained and accurate audiological threshold information to be established
• to be responsible for the accurate placement of headphones, transducers or inserts used during testing and to ensure this is maintained during the testing process
• where required, the postholder will undertake autonomous delivery of targeted hearing screening checks, accurately recording and interpreting results and completing a referral into an appropriate diagnostic clinic, following agreed criteria
• to undertake specific organisational and administration duties required in the planning and provision of clinical assessments
• to provide support and supervision to colleagues and learners, as appropriate

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community.

We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment.

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.