Senior Audiologist (Paed)

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Work as an independent practitioner providing specialist clinical services directly to patients, to include:

• • The assessment and rehabilitation of adults and children > 6 months of age.
  • Creation of individual rehabilitation plans selected from a range of possible options, engaging the patient/family as an active partner in the decision-making process guided by a flexible, inclusive and responsive approach based on patient/family need.
  • Management of patients with complex and/or special and additional needs.

o Establishment of good rapport, including gaining patients' co-operation in clinics and self-management at home.
• Promote clinical excellence as a senior practitioner, maintaining a high level of expertise in routine and non-routine testing and rehabilitation methods, to include expertise in a range of techniques, procedures and technologies. The latter will involve keeping up to date with new or emerging technologies and knowledge.
• To work effectively in, and share knowledge, skills, expertise and advice with the team, wider multi-disciplinary team, patients, families, and other agencies.
• Participate in maintenance and collation of departmental statistics.
• Maintaining Departmental and Hospital records including use of the Patient Management System, stock control systems, and equipment calibration and service records.
• To undertake the requirements to maintain professional registration including maintaining CPD Records in a format required by the regulatory professional body.
• Maintain an understanding of changes and new developments in audiological matters.

Communication
• Ability to communicate effectively, empathetically and sensitively with patients of all ages and their families/carers who:

a. may have varying degrees of hearing loss, from mild to profound

b. may have highly complex needs where advanced communication skills are paramount.

c. may be highly anxious or emotional due to the news you are imparting (e.g. diagnosis of profound hearing loss in a new-born baby, deterioration of an existing hearing loss) or recent news (e.g. still distressed about sudden significant loss of hearing).
• Ability to communicate with professionals and public, both internal and external to the Trust, on clinical, service provision and professional matters.
• To maintain clear, accurate, appropriately detailed clinical records (legible, if written). To ensure confidentiality of records.
• To report and or refer appropriately, clearly and in a timely fashion as required.
• To comply with the Trust's requirements for data management and storage.

Knowledge
• Advanced knowledge of methods of assessment for children of all ages (neonates to young adult), including assessment of children of all abilities.
• Advanced knowledge of appropriate interventions and management strategies for all assessed children.
• Advanced knowledge of assessment techniques and rehabilitative strategies for Adult patients, including patients with special and additional needs.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• BSc, PTP, Level 6 apprenticeship in Audiology or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• MSc Audiology

Paediatric Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of Paediatric Audiology experience (assessment)
• Evidence of Paediatric Audiology experience (habilitation)

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent ability to communicate with families and young patients.
• Ability to develop rapport to engage and work with babies, children and young adults.
• Attention to detail. Accurate work. Commitment to quality.

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

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

• Bank Senior Audiologist (Paed) Band 6 JD (PDF, 280.6KB)
• Bank Senior Audiologist (Paed) Band 6 Spec (PDF, 56.5KB)
• Audiologist Band 6 Functional Aspects (PDF, 176.4KB)
• L&D Hospital site map (PDF, 96.8KB)
• Disclosure & Barring Information and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 78.5KB)
• Staff Diversity Network (PDF, 140.3KB)
• Information for Disabled Applicants (PDF, 98.7KB)
• Staff Benefits (PNG, 1.6MB)