Senior Paediatric Audiologist - Hinchingbrooke | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Paediatric Audiologist - Hinchingbrooke | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Applicants must be qualified Audiologists with BSc in Audiology (or equivalent Audiology qualification) and should meet the requirement for registration, and have training/work experience in an NHS audiology service.

Good communication skills are essential.

Diagnostic Audiological Assessment–

To be a Paediatric part of the Audiology Service across the whole of NWAFT (based across the two main sites of Peterborough City Hospital & Hinchingbrooke Hospital) for children and young people age 6 months to 17 years old.

• To lead two tester children’s hearing assessment clinics.
• To select and perform audiological investigations to assess the child’s hearing function, determining the nature and extent of the hearing disorder/disability. This will incorporate thorough history taking, otoscopy, pure tone audiometry, VRA, performance audiometry, tympanometry and speech testing.
• To carry out diagnostic electrophysiological testing in babies referred by the newborn hearing screening team. For example, performing tone-burst/Chirps, click, bone conduction and cochlea microphonic electrophysiological A , ASSR and OAEs testing.
• Provide counselling to patients and parents/carers regarding the nature and extent of any hearing loss, and the options on how this could be managed.
• Manage distressed or angry patients, parents / carers sensitively, especially when disclosing test results and management options.
• Provide audiological management to patients with significant co-morbidities, including mental health problems and learning difficulties.

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for more information regarding the role.