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The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
We are looking for an paediatric Audiologist to join our team paediatric department within Children's Community Services, NELFT NHS Foundation Trust.
We are a community based department with two sites Harold Wood Clinic, Havering and Child and Family Centre in Barking.
We offer a full range of services including seeing children with permanent childhood hearing impairment, fitting hearing aids and working with teachers in local school and speech and language collegues. We also offer support for children with bothersome tinnitus and offer hearing test for those with complex needs.
Main duties of the job
The service covers Havering, Barking and Dagenham. The successful applicant would work across both sites.
We are looking to fill a full time post.
The successful candidate will be required undertaking hearing assessments for children age 7 months - 18 years. This will require skills in Visual Reinforcement Audiometry, Play Audiometry and objective testing (OAEs and tympanometry). Experience is essential but support will also be provided to support the experienced audiologist to integrate into the service.
The successful candidate will also be required to undertake hearing aid fittings in line with paediatric hearing aid guidelines and manage their time to accommodate hearing aid repairs on Phonak and Oticon hearing aids. Experience in this areas would be beneficial.
This is an excellent opportunity for any current paediatric audiologist to develop and expand their skills with children with complex needs or for a paediatric audiologist looking to expand their skills with hearing aid fittings and leadership responsiblities in a new team.
There is opportunities to be involved in VRA peer review, clinical audit and IQUIPs.
We book patients on the patient management system called RIO and test hearing using the Interacoustics Affinity Compact.
NELFT as a trust are particularly keen to encourage personal development and any necessary training necessary would be provided.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers, we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
1. We are kind.
2. We are respectful.
3. We work together with our communities.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement – Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at Northeast London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application. We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.
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Use of AI
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
4. BSc (Hons) in Audiology or equivalent.
5. Registered with RCCP
Desirable criteria
6. CPD in paediatric audiology
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Paediatric Audiology VRA and Play Audiometry skills
8. Hearing aid Review for <18 year olds
9. BSL or Deaf Awareness
Desirable criteria
10. Paediatric ENT
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
11. Flexible and adaptable team player
12. Experience working in a pair with a clinician to gain hearing test results
Desirable criteria
13. Knowledge of paediatric hearing aids
14. Knowledge of S4H, RIO or Auditbase
Personal Qualites
Essential criteria
15. Good child handling skills
16. Sensitive and approachable manner
17. Excellent communication skills
Desirable criteria
18. Family friendly professional approach / helpful and friendly clinician
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
19. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
20. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
21. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
22. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.