Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Children's Audiology Team based at Nightingale Primary Care Centre in the role of Paediatric Audiology Assistant.
The post involves working with children and their families who are attending for a hearing assessment. The post holder will work alongside the Audiologists to allow age appropriate hearing assessment of the child. Support and training to develop these skills will be provided . A desire to work with children is essential.
Although the post is a clinical role the post will involve collaborative working with the Audiology Team Administrators. This will be developed with the successful applicant when they join the team.
There will further be the expectation for the post holder to partake in generalised structured training within the trust (for example the Care certificate).
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a Paediatric Audiology Assistant. The post holder will assist in a range of paediatric audiology appointments working alongside the senior clinical team and assisting with their clinical duties. This would include hearing assessments of young children and babies. Training and supervision will be provided within the service with the opportunity to enhance their knowledge through further learning.
The post holder will also be required to assist Audiologists with their daily administrative duties. These duties would include scanning, liaising with families (face to face, email and telephone), maintaining stock levels, completing daily calibration of equipment, using and updating S1 and the trust health and safety service audits.
Specific knowledge will be acquired through hands on training and experience gained over time.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?o Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Children's Audiology are a friendly team incorporating Team Administrators, Paediatric Audiology Assistants and Clinical Staff. The team works across sites at Crawley Hospital in Crawley, Nightingale Child Development Centre in Haywards Heath and Brighton General Hospital in Brighton.
As a service Children's Audiology sits within Child Development in planned care within SCFT and benefits from close links to the Child Development Centre's.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Job description
Job responsibilities
Children's Audiology are a friendly team incorporating Team Administrators, Paediatric Audiology Assistants and Clinical Staff. The team works across sites at Crawley Hospital in Crawley, Nightingale Child Development Centre in Haywards Heath and Brighton General Hospital in Brighton.
As a service Children's Audiology sits within Child Development in planned care within SCFT and benefits from close links to the Child Development Centre's.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- hool leaving qualification (GCSE or equivalent) in maths and English language or able to demonstrate equivalent competence
Desirable
- Achieved level 3 child care qualification or evidence of equivalent childcare training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children, young people and families. Communicating effectively with a diverse range of people.
- Communicating effectively with a diverse range of people.
Desirable
- Handling personally or commercially sensitive information
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Able to interact and play with children and young people in a way appropriate to their development.
- Able to time manage workload to ensure daily and weekly tasks are completed around clinical responsibilities.
- Able to adjust methods of communication to effectively communicate with children, young people and parents in a way appropriate to their needs.
- Able to use Microsoft Office software to create attractive and well laid-out documents and presentations. Able to use Outlook for diary, and email management. Able to use Microsoft Excel for spreadsheets.
- Able to know when to triage enquiries to an appropriate member of the team. To know when it is appropriate and inappropriate to become involved in an enquiry.
- Able to work as part of a team and ensure that clinical staff are well supported and not required to frequently get involved in assistant duties
Desirable
Other requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel to Haywards Heath and Crawley for joint working and team meetings
Desirable
- An understanding of confidentiality when working in the NHS
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- hool leaving qualification (GCSE or equivalent) in maths and English language or able to demonstrate equivalent competence
Desirable
- Achieved level 3 child care qualification or evidence of equivalent childcare training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children, young people and families. Communicating effectively with a diverse range of people.
- Communicating effectively with a diverse range of people.
Desirable
- Handling personally or commercially sensitive information
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Able to interact and play with children and young people in a way appropriate to their development.
- Able to time manage workload to ensure daily and weekly tasks are completed around clinical responsibilities.
- Able to adjust methods of communication to effectively communicate with children, young people and parents in a way appropriate to their needs.
- Able to use Microsoft Office software to create attractive and well laid-out documents and presentations. Able to use Outlook for diary, and email management. Able to use Microsoft Excel for spreadsheets.
- Able to know when to triage enquiries to an appropriate member of the team. To know when it is appropriate and inappropriate to become involved in an enquiry.
- Able to work as part of a team and ensure that clinical staff are well supported and not required to frequently get involved in assistant duties
Desirable
Other requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel to Haywards Heath and Crawley for joint working and team meetings
Desirable
- An understanding of confidentiality when working in the NHS
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
