Advanced Paediatric Audiologist / Team Leader Paediatric Audiology
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced Band 7 Advanced Paediatric Audiologist / Clinical Scientist to join Oxford University Hospitals. You will deliver advanced clinical practice in paediatric audiology, including complex behavioural and objective testing, and hearing aid fitting. The position also involves service development, leadership, and line-management responsibilities, working closely with the Head of Paediatric Audiology. You will supervise and mentor junior staff to ensure high-quality clinical service delivery. The Trust is expanding its paediatric audiology services, including a new facility at Horton Hospital.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver advanced clinical practice in paediatric audiology, including behavioural testing for non-routine cases, objective testing, and hearing aid fitting and verification.
- Undertake service development responsibilities within the paediatric audiology department.
- Provide line-management, supervision, coaching, and mentoring to junior members of staff.
- Work closely with the Head of Paediatric Audiology in the delivery of the newly configured service.
- Ensure a consistently high-quality clinical service is provided.
- Undertake clinics at John Radcliffe Hospital, Banbury, and other county locations including Brackley and Didcot.
Essential criteria
- BSc Audiology, PTP Healthcare Science (Audiology) or MSc in audiology with CAC / HTS, or STP in neurosciences (audiology modality)
- Evidence of further specialist training / qualifications in paediatric audiology
- State registered with HCPC as a Clinical Scientist (audiology modality) or with AHCS as an Audiologist
Desirable criteria
- MSc Audiology
- Evidence of further specialist training in paediatric habilitation
- Management / leadership training and qualification
- Evidence of recent CPD activities
- Significant experience working as a band 6+ specialist paediatric audiologist / Clinical Scientist, in an NHS context
- Extensive experience of behavioural hearing assessment in children of all ages
- Experience of objective hearing assessment in children including OAE and ABR
- Extensive experience of hearing aid fitting and verification in children including real ear measurements and RECD.
- Experience of training other members of staff including those at same or higher grade (as well as more junior staff)
- Experience of communicating with colleagues from other disciplines including paediatrics, ENT, education, speech and language therapy
- Previous line-management experience
- Previous NHS experience
- Personal Skills / Knowledge
- High level of knowledge / competence in paediatric audiology, including assessing the hearing of children with additional needs
- Line-management skills including use of coaching style, giving feedback, active listening, appraisal.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Knowledge of Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP)
- Behavioural Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information to people from a variety of educational backgrounds in emotionally challenging situations
- Positive attitude and enthusiastic approach, with can-do attitude even when under pressure
- Resilient and able to multi-task and prioritise competing demands
- Technical skills
- Excellent manual dexterity and coordination to accurately manipulate equipment and small devices to include hearing aids and accessories and insert probe tubes accurately into ear canals
- Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office and specialist audiological software
- BSc Audiology, PTP Healthcare Science (Audiology) or MSc in audiology with CAC / HTS, or STP in neurosciences (audiology modality)
- Evidence of further specialist training / qualifications in paediatric audiology
- State registered with HCPC as a Clinical Scientist (audiology modality) or with AHCS as an Audiologist
- MSc Audiology
- Evidence of further specialist training in paediatric habilitation
- Management / leadership training and qualification
- Evidence of recent CPD activities
- Significant experience working as a band 6+ specialist paediatric audiologist / Clinical Scientist, in an NHS context
- Extensive experience of behavioural hearing assessment in children of all ages
- Experience of objective hearing assessment in children including OAE and ABR
- Extensive experience of hearing aid fitting and verification in children including real ear measurements and RECD.
- Experience of training other members of staff including those at same or higher grade (as well as more junior staff)
- Experience of communicating with colleagues from other disciplines including paediatrics, ENT, education, speech and language therapy
- Previous line-management experience
- Previous NHS experience
- Personal Skills / Knowledge
- High level of knowledge / competence in paediatric audiology, including assessing the hearing of children with additional needs
- Line-management skills including use of coaching style, giving feedback, active listening, appraisal.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Knowledge of Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP)
- Behavioural Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information to people from a variety of educational backgrounds in emotionally challenging situations
- Positive attitude and enthusiastic approach, with can-do attitude even when under pressure
- Resilient and able to multi-task and prioritise competing demands
- Technical skills
- Excellent manual dexterity and coordination to accurately ma
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Advanced Paediatric Audiologist / Team Leader Paediatric Audiology
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for two Band 7 Advanced Paediatric Audiologist / Clinical Scientist to join us at Oxford University Hospitals. It is an exciting time to join OUH as we deliver a project to reconfigure how paediatric audiology services are delivered by the Trust. We are delighted to have been rated "Full Assurance" in our ICB/NHS England site visit in spring 2025, and have received funding to further develop our service, including provision of a new paediatric audiology facility at the Horton Hospital in Banbury (due for completion in September 2026). We are looking for forward-thinking and highly motivated individuals to join us on our service development journey.
These posts would be ideal for experienced Paediatric Audiologists / Clinical Scientists who would like to further develop their service development, leadership, management and advanced clinical skills. You will be working alongside our other team leaders, reporting to the Head of Paediatric Audiology. These posts are funded at 1.6WTE. Ideally, we are looking to fill these posts as 1.0WTE full-time and 0.6WTE (22.5hrs/week), but would equally consider two or more part-time contracts.
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