Job summary
- Main area
- Audiology
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (None)
- Job ref
- 411-SUR-24-6707735-A-A
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Audiologist
Band 6
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
This post is suitable for an experienced audiologist and entails working as part of a multidisciplinary team providing highly specialised audiological services, including advanced and complex assessment and rehabilitation of hearing impaired children. The post holder will work at Alder Hey and community clinics and schools across the Liverpool, Sefton and West Lancashire region and therefore the ability to travel in-between sites is essential.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be expected to assist with the mentoring of junior members of staff and students and ensure that a consistently high quality, complex and sophisticated clinical service is provided. This includes maintaining continuous professional development, working autonomously, managing own caseload, demonstration of own initiative and supporting senior staff and managers in developing the service.
Training and development in paediatric audiology will be provided.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical/Scientific and Technical
- Carry out otoscopy following BSA recommended procedures.
- Diagnose, manage and rehabilitate children with hearing impairment using a wide range of advanced and complex audiological procedures.
- Perform diagnostic assessment of the hearing of children and analyse the results.
- Provide an efficient Tier 2 service in the community. Work independently in the assessment, diagnosis and management of children aged 4 years onwards as part of the Tier 2 Service.
- Assess, diagnosis and manage children in Tier 3 clinics, which includes a variety of test techniques, including the following; Infant distraction testing, visual re-enforcement audiometry (VRA), performance testing, speech testing, testing of middle ear muscle reflex (MEMR) using tympanometry, TEOAEs, DPAOE and growth studies.
- Work as an independent practitioner when carrying out hearing tests in deaf resource bases in school settings. Test hearing aids in schools using test box equipment, to carry out general repairs, re-tubing of ear moulds, to take aural impressions and carry out assessments on hearing aid users.
Communication
- Ability to explain to children what they are required to do when performing hearing tests, using appropriate language. Able to use tact and persuasion where barriers to understanding exist, e.g. very young children and children with learning difficulties, or with an uncooperative child.
- Communicate effectively with Deaf and hard of hearing individuals, carers and children of all ages. Able to communicate complex technical information in a meaningful manner, adapting instructions and tests to children of different ages and special needs.
- Demonstrate reassurance and persuasive skills to gain a child’s confidence for invasive procedures e.g. impressions.
- Demonstrate sensitivity and awareness when ‘Sharing the News’ with children, parents and families e.g. sudden hearing loss or deterioration of existing hearing loss.
Person specification
Qualfications / Experience
Essential criteria
- BSc Hons audiology
- Equivalent audiology qualification (e.g. BAAT/BTEC)
- Professional Registration (RCCP or Academy of Healthcare science registration)
Desirable criteria
- MSc Audiology
2. Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience in an Audiology Department
- Demonstrate understanding of the range of paediatric assessments.
- Experience in a wide range of diagnostic tests and rehabilitation tools.
- Experience of fitting verifying and evaluating a range of hearing aids and completing individual management plans.
Desirable criteria
- Substantial post registration experience in an Audiology Department
- Substantial post registration experience in an Audiology Department
- Experience of fitting bone conduction hearing devices
- Experience of vestibular testing
- Experience of training and development of junior members of staff BSc and MSc university students on clinical placement
- Knowledge of British Sign Language
Skills and attributes
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuous personal development via post Graduate Courses relevant to the clinical speciality.
- Excellent skills in using audiological equipment and computer programmes associated with them.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, enabling the post holder to communicate with professionals, carers and children and those who have communication difficulties.
- Ability to keep accurate and legible patient records and statistical information.
- Evidence of knowledge of current trends within paediatric audiology.
- Ability to supervise junior members of staff
- Proven ability to compliment the dynamics of the existing team.
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance.
- Interest and aptitude for audit, research and development
- Ability to maintain strict patient confidentiality
- Ability to work autonomously
Other Additional Requirments
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between community clinic sites
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Maureen O'Hare
- Job title
- Clinical Manager
- Email address
- Maureen.O'[email protected]
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