Senior Paediatric Audiologist

We currently have a part-time vacancy in the Paediatric Audiology team! Do you have a desire to join a dedicated team that provide Audiologist and Consultant led clinics across four sites in East Kent. The ideal candidate needs to be enthusiastic, hardworking, flexible, adaptive and have a passion to work with children, young people and their families/guardians. We are a multi-speciality service focusing on the early diagnosis and management of hearing loss in children and young people. Our patient centred service aims to provide in depth diagnostic assessment, investigation and rehabilitative management in order to meet each child’s hearing needs. We strive to maintain close contact with multidisciplinary team members including speech and language therapists, teachers of the deaf and paediatric consultants in order to provide a comprehensive service in line with national and international guidelines and best practice. Please note that previous applicants need not apply. The post holder will deliver high quality patient centred care. They will work autonomously providing audiological assessments, rehabilitation, diagnosis and treatment plans to the paediatric caseload within both hospital and community clinics. To support the Consultant Audio-vestibular Physician and the Lead Paediatric Audiologist in providing a high-quality service. To take an active role in areas of clinical audit; research and clinical governance for the audiology service, which may include designing and completing audits within own fields, participating in data collection for larger projects and contributing to the development of evidence-based protocols. We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people. Our vision is ‘great healthcare from great people’. Everything we do is guided by our values: ‘People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’ We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called ‘We care’. It’s about empowering front line staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We’re looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day. NHSEI have always been clear that staff have a professional duty to get vaccinated and it remains our best line of defence against COVID-19. As such NHS organisation including Primary Care, are encouraged to continue engaging with and supporting their staff to inform their decisions in order to drive vaccine confidence, protect themselves, patients, and everyone else. NHSEI has produced COVID-19 vaccine communication materials. Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘supporting documents’.