Band 3 Newborn Hearing Screener
1 Position Available: 1 x 18 hrs. per week (3 x 6 hour shifts)
South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our Newborn Hearing Screening Programme to assist in providing hearing screening for babies born in South Warwickshire. These positions will include some weekend working.
The successful applicant will undergo in-house practical training, E-learning modules, and undertake an external competency assessment. In addition, they will be required to complete a Level 3 Diploma for Health Screeners Newborn Hearing Screening, unless they hold professional registration in a healthcare role.
The successful applicant will have good interpersonal and communication skills and confidence in the handling of newborn babies. They will need to be IT competent, self-motivated, and able to manage their own workload, with an ability to work both within a team and independently.
The Newborn Hearing Screener works as a member of the Newborn Hearing Screening team, participating in the screening of newborn babies' hearing under the supervision of the local manager for the Programme. Screening of babies takes place within the Maternity Unit and Special Care Baby Unit at Warwick Hospital, with occasional outpatient clinics at Warwick and Stratford Hospitals.
The role involves gathering and recording clinical and screen data, completing the automated hearing screen, and making onward referrals to Audiology where required. This involves direct handling of newborn babies and contact with parents and other professionals.
All newborn hearing screeners must complete the Level 3 Diploma for Health Screeners Newborn Hearing Screening, unless they hold professional registration in a healthcare role. Screeners will be required to complete an external competency assessment and eLearning Modules.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC, and we are recruiting new staff to help us improve even further.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond, ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa, and Shipston-on-Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways, and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence: We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective, and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient-facing or not; we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Emma Rushton
Job title: Local Manager NHSP
Email address: emma.rushton@swft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01926 495321
Tel: 01926 495321 ext 4355 4780
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