HCSS Audiologist DAYS ROTATING

HCSS Audiologist DAYS ROTATING

Galveston, Texas, United States

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Nursing & Care Management

HealthCare System Staffing

Requisition # 2401381

JOB SUMMARY

To provide advanced professional skills in audiological diagnosis and evaluation and to provide habilitative and rehabilitative treatment services.

MAJOR DUTIES / CRITICAL TASKS:

• Administers a variety of routine and complex audiometric tests to determine patients' hearing threshold, degree, site, and nature of damage to the auditory system and course of treatment.

• Provides patient evaluation and treatments, employing techniques consistent with age specific concerns for the following age groups: neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric as defined in position addendum.

• Interprets basic and advanced diagnostic tests and prepares reports on diagnostic testing, implications of hearing disorder, and treatment plans.

• Evaluates patients' progress with amplification or other treatment planning.

• Plans, conducts, and directs identification conservation, habilitative, and rehabilitative programs.

• Determines need for patient referral to specialists.

• Provides consultation and guidance to patients and other departments.

• Assists in evaluating standards of patient care, assessing areas of need or improvement.

• Makes recommendations for updates to procedures.

• Supervises clinical work of support personnel.

• Instructs and demonstrates testing procedures and treatments to clinic personnel, medical students, and residents.

• Participates in interdisciplinary testing and research projects.

• Serves as a preceptor to audiology doctoral students.

• Adheres to internal controls established for department.

• Performs related duties as required.

REQUIRED EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:

• Master's degree in Audiology

• Certification of Clinical Competency in Audiology from the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association.

• Current Audiology License from the Texas State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.

• Three (3) years of experience within the last 2 years

• Current CPR/BLS certification through American Heart Association.

EQUIPMENT

Audiometric test equipment, evoked potential equipment, complex electroacoustic

instrumentation, amplification and assistive listening devices, vestibular test equipment, various software systems to support equipment and programming of hearing aids and other assistive devices.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

Standard hospital, clinical, environments.

OTHER

Specific job requirements or physical location of some positions allocated to this classification, may render this position security sensitive, and thereby subject to the provisions of Section 51.215, Texas Education Code.

Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents in lieu of stated minimums require the prior approval of the Executive Director of Human Resources

Compensation

• Hiring Range: 65.00