Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

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 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.

Working for our organisation

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