Team Lead Paediatric Audiology

Main area Paediatric Audiology Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract 6 months (Fixed Term) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 828-PROVIDE4283

Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Stapleford House Children's Centre Town Chelmsford Salary Dependant on experience Closing 25/09/2026 23:59

Job Overview

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children with hearing difficulties? Do you enjoy combining clinical expertise with leadership and service development? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Lead Paediatric Audiologist to join our dedicated Community Paediatric Audiology Service. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality hearing assessment services for babies and children aged 7 months and above, while helping to shape and develop the service for the future.

As Lead Paediatric Audiologist, you will support the Operational Lead in delivering a safe, effective and patient-centred service. You will provide clinical leadership, operational management and specialist audiological expertise, ensuring children and their families receive the highest standard of care.

About The Service

Our Community Paediatric Audiology Service provides diagnostic hearing assessments for babies and children over the age of 7 months.

We are committed to providing accessible, family-centred care and delivering excellent outcomes for the children and communities we serve.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake audiological assessment of babies aged over 7 months, children and adults in accordance with British Society of Audiology (BSA) recommended procedures and national guidance.
• Practice autonomously as a registered professional, interpreting diagnostic findings and developing appropriate management plans.
• Analyse and interpret information obtained from medical history, otoscopic examination and audiological assessment results.

Deliver rehabilitation and counselling to patients and families affected by hearing loss and tinnitus.

Participate in peer review, clinical audit and quality improvement activities.

Manage the day-to-day operation of the Paediatric Audiology Service, ensuring appropriate staffing levels and efficient clinic utilisation.

Undertake line management responsibilities, including one-to-one meetings, supervision, performance management and annual appraisals.

Develop and implement service improvement plans in line with organisational and national priorities.

Manage the department's clinical timetable, ensuring capacity is maximised whilst maintaining a high standard of patient care.

Investigate and manage patient concerns and complaints in accordance with organisational procedures.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for a full list of the main responsibilities for this role. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.

Person specification

UK resident

Essential criteria

• Right to work in the UK, not requiring sponsorship
  
  

Meets requirements of the role

Essential criteria

• Qualifications
  
  

Further Information

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
• If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net
• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
  
  

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.

Work Trials

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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.