Newborn Hearing Screener: Sponsorship Available

Barts Health NHS Trust

Job Summary

Applications are welcome from those seeking a part-time contract. The role is predominantly based at Whipps Cross Hospital (and outpatient locations in the Waltham Forest & Redbridge borough) but the post-holder will be required to support our Tower Hamlets and Newham sites on a fairly regular basis.

Service cover is over 7 days and weekend working is required of all post-holders.

Would you like to make a difference to a baby and their family’s lives?

We are looking for energetic, caring and self-motivated people to be part of delivering the front-line services of the Newborn Hearing Screening service in Barts Health.

The Audiology and Hearing Service provides hearing screening services to screen the hearing of all newborn babies across Barts Health. The successful candidate will join our team, based at the Maternity and Special Care Baby Units at our Hospitals including outpatient locations.

Your main duties will be to perform the Newborn Hearing Screen to all babies eligible for testing, within national protocols. Our service helps identify babies who may have a hearing loss, so that they can be referred for further testing and receive the appropriate early intervention where appropriate.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, experience in working with babies and must feel confident in working under pressure, as is the case in the busy Maternity environment.

 

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme is to support the identification and babies with permanent childhood hearing impairment, enabling early intervention which is key to a child’s social and psychological development and therefore more positive life outcomes.

The role of newborn hearing screener is to provide a family friendly service to new parents/care-givers in offering and explaining the screen, completing the screening process as per national and local protocols and assisting in the delivery of the service as whole alongside the teams that all work at Maternity and Community sites in Barts Health localities.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a public facing role.
  • Experience in using Windows & a good standard of IT literacy.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in the NHS or Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in the UK.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge and understanding of confidentiality and data protection.

Desirable

  • An awareness of the newborn hearing screening programme and the effects of hearing difficulties in children.
  • Awareness of safeguarding.

Qualifications

Essential

  • GCSEs, NNEB, ONC, NVQ or equivalent.
  • NHSP training completed
  • Excellent numeracy and verbal/ written communication skills.

Desirable

  • Level 3 Health Screening Diploma
  • Relevant IT qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 06 April 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.