# Senior Paediatric Audiologist - Hinchingbrooke

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Peterborough
- **Region:** East of England
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Health science services
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-03T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20T10:51:32.491Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Huntingdon/North_West_Anglia_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Audiology/Audiology-v7955161
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7955161?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### 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.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for more information regarding the role.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Advanced knowledge of anatomy and physiology of the ear and balance systems
- Experience in paediatric hearing aid work including performing RECDs with hearing aid fittings and reviews
- Competent and experienced in performing paediatric audiology assessments including history taking, performing age appropriate hearing tests (audiometry, performance testing, VRA, tympanometry, ABR, and OAEs), ear examination, debriefing the parent/carer and agreeing an individual management plan

### Education and Qualifications

**Essential**

- MSc in Audiological Science or equivalent OR MSc level of expertise in a specialist area of audiology with BSC in Audiology or equivalent qualification
- Registered as Clinical Scientist in Audiology (HCPC)
- STP, HTS in paediatrics, CAC, or equivalent experiential
- Advanced knowledge of anatomy and physiology of the ear and balance systems
- Competent and experienced in performing paediatric audiology assessments including history taking, performing age appropriate hearing tests (audiometry, performance testing, VRA, tympanometry, ABR, and OAEs), ear examination, debriefing the parent/carer and agreeing an individual management plan

**Desirable**

- Attendance of the NHSP sharing the news
- Attendance of the Newborn ABR course or ARU Paediatric Audiological Assessment (newborns)
- Experience of UKAS accreditation for IQIPS

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 576.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2886)
- [living our values (pdf, 260.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1865)
- [we are team nwangliaft (pdf, 8.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2745)
- [information for candidates (pdf, 5.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2788)
- [senior paediatric audiologist jd (pdf, 336.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10235829)
- [senior paediatric audiologist ps (pdf, 416.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10235830)

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