Posted: 21/06/2024

Closing Date: 23/07/2024

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Blackburn

Job Category: Allied Health

**Our Purpose and Ambition**

NextSense is a not-for-profit organisation supporting people with vision or hearing loss across Australia. We work with children, adults, and their families, providing a holistic approach to hearing services for newborns through to people over 90 years old, and helping children who are blind or have low vision to develop the right skills, mobility, and independence to confidently explore their world.

NextSense has been breaking boundaries since 1860, and we’ve been expanding our services ever since. Today, we deliver world-class education (both to children with sensory loss and to professionals in the field), cochlear implants, allied health services, therapy, research, and clinical services to children and adults. We’re a registered NDIS provider, working with our clients to achieve their own goals and potential.

We’re committed to research and innovation; harnessing the latest technologies and new ways of thinking and educating the next generation to lead the way in hearing and vision services.

We have recently created a world-leading centre for innovation on-site at Macquarie University that represents a new era for hearing and vision loss. This nationally significant social infrastructure project will be a place to nurture, trial and share new ideas and form new partnerships that will drive better outcomes for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision.

**The Role**

NextSense has an exciting opportunity for a Paediatric Diagnostic Audiologist to join our team at Blackburn, with potential for CI work from our Moonee Ponds office as our Impant Program grows. This is a permanent full-time role and reports directly to Area Manager.

**You’ll make a difference in this role by**:

- Providing high quality evidence-based behavioural and electrophysiological assessment of children 0 - 18 years.
- Occational testing of adults in support of partner services such as the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospitals public ENT clinic
- Using a family-centred framework when providing services
- Maintaining client records to ensure all information, including sensitive issues, are treated in a way that respects the individual clients right to confidentiality and dignity
- Completing client related administration, ensuring all client information and records, inclusive of case notes and reports, meet legislative and policy requirements
- Understanding and striving to achieve key metrics and performance indicators for your role to maintain sustainable activity and achieve outcomes for our clients.
- Participating in and providing clinical supervision to other team members and students.
- Commiting to continuing professional development and subsequently demonstrating and sharing knowledge

**What we can offer you**
- A collaborative work environment
- Training, clinical supervision and mentorship where required
- Four days of professional development leave and access to industry leading education, publications and clinical resources
- Competitive remuneration
- 100% salary packaging allowing you to increase your take home pay
- Extensive personal/carer’s leave
- 2 weeks paid leave over Christmas in addition to 4 weeks annual leave
- Paid parental leave of 14 weeks for primary carer and 6 weeks for secondary carer
- Wellbeing program including Employee Assistance Program

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
To be successful in this role you'll need to demonstrate you meet the following selection criteria:

- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in provision of audiology services and demonstrate sound clinical skills and knowledge
- Sound clinical skills and knowledge of peadiatric diagnostic audiology
- A working knowledge of electrophysiological tests
- A strong commitment to “best practice” and standards of quality in audiology.
- Experience in audiological rehabilitation and hearing implants is desired.
- Strong appreciation and understanding of technology and an aptitude for learning
- Proven organisational and time management skills
- Well-developed communication, presentation and computer skills
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team

NextSense is an equal opportunity employer and compliance with child protection legislation is essential.