Job summary
- Main area
- Surgical Specialities
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (End date: January 2027 - Secondment available for internal candidates)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-7481418
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
New-born Hearing Screener/Senior Screener
NHS AfC: Band 4
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a New-born Hearing Screener/Senior Screener who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
A key part of this role is to work with the Local Co-Ordinator to ensure the delivery of the New-born Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) within the timeframes in hospital and community settings and to identify which babies require screening.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The New-born Screening Hearing Screener will need to liaise effectively with parents, team members and other health care professionals.
The successful candidate will carry out the screening of new-borns within the maternity unit and accurately record clinical and test data.
You will promote a professional, welcoming and caring environment endorsing a Family Friendly approach to care at all times.
The post holder will ensure they maintain up-to-date knowledge of procedures and policies relevant to this post.
You will also maintain the confidentiality of the babies and their families at all times.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Literate and numerate
- Relevant training certificates related to Newborn hearing screening
- Qualified Newborn Hearing Screener with experience
- Management qualification or willing to undertake
Desirable criteria
- Level 3 diploma in Health Screening
Previous Experience
Desirable criteria
- Hospital or community experience in patient care
- Experience in a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of undertaking screening across all areas including complex cases.
- Experience in day-to-day supervision of staff and Staff development
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability and confidence to handle newborn babies
- Effective communication skills
- Communication with multiprofessional groups
- Intermediate IT Skills
- Ability to work individually and as part of a team
- Ability to chair staff meetings
- Ability to work under pressure
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- To be able to understand the process and methodology that is involved with the actual hearing screening test and its application.
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Ability to travel easily between Trust sites
- Flexible working
- May require evening working Weekend working
- Role model our Trust values every day
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Leanne Horner
- Job title
- Senior Newborn Hearing Screener
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 285432
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