Audiologist-RTH-Chandler

Position Summary: Tests, diagnoses and offers solutions to patients with hearing, balance and other ear related difficulties by performing the following duties personally. Responsible for ensuring that all critical tasks are fulfilled on a timely basis.

Critical Tasks:

• Quickly develops conducive relationships with patients.
• Maintains professional focus and time nearly entirely on patients, service quality and regulatory compliance.
• In manner useful and valuable to patients, educates those patients as to their conditions, diagnoses, treatment options, and treatment success likelihoods.
• Determines type and degree of hearing impairment and implements habilitation and rehabilitation services for patient by conducting tests to measure ability to hear and differentiate a range of sounds.
• Maintains updated and accurate knowledge of all treatment modalities, methodologies, equipment, and vendors.
• Provides highly accurate patient, exam, test and diagnosis information on a timely basis to the Electronic Medical Records system.
• Administers and interprets variety of tests such as air and bone conduction, and speech reception and discrimination tests, to determine type and degree of hearing impairment, site of damage, and effects on comprehension and speech.
• Evaluates test results in relation to behavioral, social, educational, and medical information obtained from patients, families, teachers, Speech Pathologists, and other professionals to determine communication problems related to hearing disability.
• Plans and implements prevention, habilitation, or rehabilitation services, including hearing aid selection and orientation, counseling, auditory training, lip reading, speech conservation, and other treatment programs developed in consultation with Speech Pathologist and other professionals.
• Refers patient to Physician or Surgeon if medical treatment is determined to be necessary.
• Writes grant proposals for medical equipment used for patient condition evaluation and for treatment of patients.

• Maintains familiarity with the latest diagnostic tools available to determine both problems and best treatment options.
  
• Determines and weighs the level of emotional or mental stress that hearing and/or balance loss may be causing patients, while referring patients to appropriate resources to alleviate such stress.
  
• Refers complex medical cases to Ear Nose Throat Medical Doctor Specialists and/or Physical Therapists.
  
• Orders assistive devices such as hearing aids accurately and on a timely basis.
  
• Continually evaluates patient conditions and responses to treatment methodologies
  
• Conducts research in physiology, pathology, biophysics, or psychophysics of auditory systems, or designs and develops clinical and research procedures and apparatus.
  
• May act as a consultant to educational, community, medical, legal, and other professional groups.
• Demonstrates ability to regularly change priorities to accomplish all tasks despite frequent interruptions.
• Demonstrates ability to clearly communicate, both orally and in writing, while performing all essential functions.
• Performs other special projects and duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Four-year undergraduate college degree.
• Au. D. Master’s Degree in audiology.
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology, with American Board of Audiology certification preferred.
• Arizona Department of Health Services Audiologist and Dispensing Audiologist License.
• Minimum of three years of experience as a licensed Audiologist, with experience preferred within a Native American patient population.
• Demonstrated ability to relate to diverse cultures and specifically the Gila River Community and/or other Native American cultures.
• Interest in medical subjects, patient services/care, and customer service.
• Prior medical environment work experience is preferred.