Band 3 Senior Audiology Assistant- Community Paediatric Audiology Team

Job summary

The Community Paediatric Audiology Service offers diagnostic audiology assessments for children from 7 months to 16 years of age and for children attending special schools up to 19 years of age.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Band 3 Audiology Assistant into our service for 18.75hours a week (0.5 WTE).

The role will involve working closely with the Audiology staff, children and families to support the delivery of behavioural and diagnostic testing across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and will involve travel across all sites.

Please note that you will need to have a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle which is suitable for work as public transport is not suitable for this role.

We will support you to build effective relationships with children and their families/carers alongside the wider multidisciplinary team.

In return for your hard work and your professional, caring and reliable service we offer:

• Training and development opportunities
• Experience gained by working in a variety of environments.
• Free uniform
• Free car parking across all LPT sites.
• Occupational Health Services including physiotherapy
• NHS Discounts through the Blue Light Card Scheme
• Lease Car Schemes
• Salary Sacrifice schemes for household goods.

Main duties of the job

• Supporting children and families to engage in the assessment process, including management of children with complex needs and/or challenging behaviour during testing
• Independently consider and delivering specific distraction and play activities, based on an individual child's level of engagement and cognitive ability, in order to manage and maintain their interest and optimal attention levels throughout the testing process. This will involve working at a child's level i.e sitting at small tables engaging children to gain child's attention.
• Taking joint responsibility with the paediatric audiologist in analysing and evaluating the reliability of a child's responses to sounds during behavioural testing
• Independently condition a child through play activities, to enable reliable and secure responses to be gained and accurate audiological threshold information to be established
• To be responsible for the accurate placement of headphones, transducers or inserts used during testing and to ensure this is maintained during the testing process
• Where required, you will undertake autonomous delivery of targeted hearing screening checks, accurately recording and interpreting results and completing a referral into an appropriate diagnostic clinic, following agreed criteria
• Undertaking specific organisational and administration duties required in the planning and provision of clinical assessments
• Providing support and supervision to colleagues and learners, as appropriate

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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