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Key Result Areas:

To participate in the provision of a comprehensive paediatric Audiology service including complex cases and communicate this to parents / carers and patients.

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 ABR, 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

To contribute to departmental development to maintain and improve services to patients and their carers

To autonomously undertake specialist and advanced activities, including Children with special or complex needs

To participate in departmental and trust audit for purposes of monitoring and improvement programmes

To promote the principles of a ‘family – friendly’ service by ensuring that parents and carers are given clear and accurate information in an appropriate format.

To maintain effective methods of communication to ensure that outcomes are delivered correctly to parents, primary care teams, and other health professionals

To ensure that testing follows National Guidelines, policies and best practise within the resources available.

To participate in the audiological assessment, diagnosis and management of
children

Carry out routine maintenance and calibration checks on Audiological equipment, reporting faults and arranging for repair when necessary.

Update national eSP/Smart 4 Hearing database (as required) with results of
hearing tests following referral from neonatal hearing screening team and maintain close communication links with Newborn Hearing Screening Programme

To maintain professional registration.

Contribute to professional and departmental meetings providing clinical expertise where appropriate

To maintain own professional development

Knowledge:
Advanced knowledge of methods of assessment for neonates

Advanced knowledge of methods of assessment for pre-school and school age children.

Advanced knowledge of assessment for all children of all abilities.

Advanced knowledge of appropriate interventions of children assessed.

Communication

To liaise with relevant health professionals and other agencies and promote good outcomes for children identified with PCHI 1

Able to discuss sensitive health issues with children, young people and their family members, using negotiation and reassurance skills where required.

Able to work in a team of peers offering support and advice within own are

Able to identify and report concerns to senior staff

To make verbal and written reports, referrals and records as required, ensuring these are kept up-to-date

To encourage an open communication with children, young people and their families and friends, helping them to become actively involved in decision making within all elements of the service.

To be empathic to children, young people and their family’s needs.

To ensure the necessary liaison, communication and follow up arrangements following assessment.

To work closely with the audiologists, tertiary services, associate specialist in child health, peripatetic teachers of the hearing impaired, ENT Services, speech and language therapists and all other appropriate professionals.

To work as an integral member of a multi-disciplinary team

To keep and maintain accurate and contemporaneous clearly legible clinical
records to ensure confidentiality of the records and provide reports as necessary.

To maintain records using computerised information systems as required

To provide information about audiological services to health professionals and the general public.