Job summary
We're looking for an exceptional candidate to manage the day-to-day delivery of a modern, high-performing Paediatric Audiology Service for children and families.
Humber Health Partnership is delighted to offer a newly created senior post: Lead Paediatric Audiologist. This rare opportunity places you at the heart of an expanding service at a time of growth, investment, and transformation.
As demand increases and pathways evolve, we are strengthening our leadership structure to enhance clinical excellence, improve operational flow, and drive innovation across our paediatric sites. You will work closely with the Audiology Lead/Head of Audiology Services and Audiology Site Leads, helping to shape the future direction of the service while ensuring smooth, efficient day-to-day operations.
If you're ready to influence service development, lead with purpose, and make a meaningful, lasting impact, this role offers the scope, autonomy, and visibility to do exactly that.
Main duties of the job
- Provide clinical leadership and operational management for the Paediatric Audiology Service, driving service development, research activity, and continuous quality improvement.
- Deliver highly specialist, complex and non-routine paediatric audiological assessments and interventions, independently undertaking advanced scientific work with babies and children and managing subsequent hearing loss and/or balance conditions.
- Lead on paediatric policies, protocols, triage processes and clinical pathways, ensuring they remain evidence-based, safe, and aligned with national standards.
- Act as deputy for the Audiology Lead/Head of Audiology Services, attending governance meetings and contributing to strategic planning and service-wide decision-making.
- Provide expert supervision, teaching and performance management for junior staff, apprentices and students, supporting their development and ensuring high-quality clinical practice.
- Oversee equipment management and resource use, working with site leads to ensure calibration, maintenance, and consumable usage support safe and efficient service delivery.
- Ensure service compliance with national screening KPIs and IQIPS standards, contributing to accreditation work and maintaining robust clinical governance, incident review and patient feedback processes.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives on responsibility, influence, and the chance to shape a service that makes a direct and meaningful difference to patient outcomes.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Master's Degree in Audiology or equivalent relevant clinical experience
- Evidence of study at Master's Level
- BSc (Hons) Audiology from an accredited university OR equivalent qualifications BAAT part 1 & 2 (until 2006)
- Registration with appropriate body
- Supervisory experience
Desirable
- BAA HTS Modules in paediatrics and newborn hearing assessment
- Evidence of learning from relevant professional courses/seminars
- Leadership qualification
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential
- Evidence of CPD
- Evidence of staff management
Special Knowledge including experience
Essential
- Minimum 4 years at Band 7 level or already practicing as Band 8A Audiologist
- Ability to lead and perform a comprehensive range of highly specialist paediatric diagnostic assessments including VRA assessments
- Experience of ABR testing in babies and/or young children (Or willing to attend and undertake a recognised training programme in ABR testing at M level to obtain the relevant BAA HTS module
- Able to undertake paediatric hearing aid fittings and verification on children of all ages including babies identified from NHSP screening
- Experience of supervision/line management of support staff/Audiology trainees/apprentices
- Experience of undertaking developing audits and implementing findings
- Modern working practices including staff competency assessments and internal/external peer review
Behaviours
Essential
- Ability to communicate with staff and others, such as GPs, health visitors, school nurses, paediatricians, ENT Consultants and teachers of the deaf/hearing impaired
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good personal time management
Practical Skills
Essential
- Good self-motivational and teamworking skills. Ability to cope with conflicting demands in relation to patient care
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Master's Degree in Audiology or equivalent relevant clinical experience
- Evidence of study at Master's Level
- BSc (Hons) Audiology from an accredited university OR equivalent qualifications BAAT part 1 & 2 (until 2006)
- Registration with appropriate body
- Supervisory experience
Desirable
- BAA HTS Modules in paediatrics and newborn hearing assessment
- Evidence of learning from relevant professional courses/seminars
- Leadership qualification
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential
- Evidence of CPD
- Evidence of staff management
Special Knowledge including experience
Essential
- Minimum 4 years at Band 7 level or already practicing as Band 8A Audiologist
- Ability to lead and perform a comprehensive range of highly specialist paediatric diagnostic assessments including VRA assessments
- Experience of ABR testing in babies and/or young children (Or willing to attend and undertake a recognised training programme in ABR testing at M level to obtain the relevant BAA HTS module
- Able to undertake paediatric hearing aid fittings and verification on children of all ages including babies identified from NHSP screening
- Experience of supervision/line management of support staff/Audiology trainees/apprentices
- Experience of undertaking developing audits and implementing findings
- Modern working practices including staff competency assessments and internal/external peer review
Behaviours
Essential
- Ability to communicate with staff and others, such as GPs, health visitors, school nurses, paediatricians, ENT Consultants and teachers of the deaf/hearing impaired
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good personal time management
Practical Skills
Essential
- Good self-motivational and teamworking skills. Ability to cope with conflicting demands in relation to patient care
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
