Mrs Kechi Oribabor

Mrs Kechi Oribabor is a Clinical Audiologist and Hearing Aid Dispenser with over 16 years of professional experience in adult and paediatric audiology across NHS and private healthcare settings. She is the Lead Audiologist and Director at Sonant Hearing, an independent audiology clinic based in Rochester, Kent, where she oversees both audiology services and practice operations.

Mrs Oribabor is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Hearing Aid Dispenser. She is also registered as a Clinical Audiologist with the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP), now incorporated into the Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS).

At Sonant Hearing, she provides a comprehensive range of audiology services tailored to both adults and children. Her clinical interests include hearing assessments, tinnitus assessment and management, auditory processing disorder (APD) evaluations and therapy, hearing aid technology, hearing rehabilitation, and aural care procedures including microsuction and instrumentation for ear wax removal. She also provides hearing protection solutions, hearing assistive listening devices, workplace hearing screening, school hearing screening, medicolegal assessments for noise-induced hearing loss claims, and professional coaching and mentoring for audiologists.

Prior to founding Sonant Hearing in 2024, Mrs Oribabor worked as a Senior Audiologist, Regional Field Coach, and Trainer at Boots Hearingcare between 2020 and 2024. She also worked as a Senior Paediatric Audiologist at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust from 2020 to 2021. Earlier in her career, she held Senior Audiologist roles at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Hospitals. In addition, she worked as a Paediatric and Adult Audiologist at Cromwell Hospital in London.

Mrs Oribabor has undertaken additional training in auditory processing evaluation through the Auditory Processing Institute and continues to support evidence-based audiology care through ongoing professional development.