Audiologist

Job Title: Doctor of Audiology

Reports To: Owner
Job Status: Full Time

Although your education and experience play a key role in this process, your personality traits and attitude are key priorities. If this is how your co-workers and friends would describe you, then we may be the ideal match:

• Always happy, smiles a lot, positive attitude, always a pleasure to be around.
• Friendly, warm, caring, a people person – which comes across the very first time you meet someone, even on the telephone.
• Patient, compassionate, helpful especially with older people. Even temperament, calm, always pleasant, unflappable. Has a knack for being able to turn a frown into a smile.
• Committed, dedicated, a great teammate, pitches in without being asked, puts team accomplishments ahead of individual accomplishments.
• Accurate, detailed, wants to get things right, double checks their own work, makes very few mistakes.
• Owns it – accepts responsibility, credits others for successes and accepts responsibility for failures. Always looking for a constructive way to solve a problem.
• Coachable, accepts feedback with a positive attitude. Always looking for ways to grow and improve.
• Reliable, dependable, doesn’t just arrive on time: often comes in a little early to make sure they’re prepared for the day; willing to stay late when there’s work that needs to be done or a patient needs us.

These statements also describe the people you’ll be working alongside, meaning that you’ll quickly discover that this is much more than a group of co-workers—it feels like “your kind of people.”

As an Audiologist, you will be playing a key role in helping our patients to achieve a lifetime of better hearing while ensuring the highest level standards of care that our reputation has been built upon. Your job will be to ensure that every patient feels like our only patient.

Duties Include:

• Connecting Through Assessments: Initiate a bond by understanding each patient's unique hearing journey. Comprehensive assessments give insights into their personal experiences, needs, and aspirations.
• Sound Sculpting: Employ a range of audiometric tests tailored to each individual. It's about crafting a personal sound experience, enabling them to revel in every auditory detail of their surroundings.
• Navigating Choices Together: Be the guiding hand when it comes to treatment (i.e. hearing aids, ALDs, aural rehabilitation, etc.). With so many choices out there, your expertise helps in ensuring every patient gets the tailored care they need and deserve.
• Ongoing Support: Build trust and demonstrate you care by being available for check-ups, reprogramming, or even a chat. Whether it's a tune-up for their device or easing their concerns, you're their go-to person.
• Heartfelt Counseling: This journey has its ups and downs. Go beyond the ‘tech’ talk. We don’t ‘sell hearing aids’; we provide the highest level of hearing healthcare. Offer a listening ear, provide support, and address emotional concerns linked to hearing challenges.
• Embracing Continuous Learning: As the audiology landscape evolves, immerse yourself in the latest advancements. And then? Share that knowledge, bringing optimism and hope to those you care for.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is honorable, caring, intelligent, enthusiastic, outgoing, and team-oriented. You should be ready to perform medically relevant diagnostics, including audiometry and immittance, as well as treatment-focused testing such as speech-in-noise testing (QuickSIN) and loudness discomfort levels. You are passionate about working with state-of-the-art amplification and assistive technology, improving lives with your care, counseling, and technological solutions.

You should also have comfort with—or a willingness to learn—programming and managing surgical hearing devices, including bone-anchored hearing systems (BAHA) and cochlear implants. Training will be provided as needed.

You will be expected to improve proficiency with hearing aid dispensing and ongoing hearing aid management, including electroacoustic analysis and probe microphone measurements.

Skills Expected to Have Mastered:

Diagnostics:

• Comprehensive Hearing Assessments (pure tone air/bone conduction audiometry, word recognition in quiet and noise)
• Immittance Testing (tympanometry, acoustic reflexes, reflex decay)
• Tinnitus Assessment, Management, and Counseling

Dispensing:

• Hearing Aid Sales and Counseling
• Hearing Aid Electroacoustic Analysis
• Probe Microphone / Real Ear Measurements
• Counseling and Instruction in Aural Rehabilitation Techniques

Surgical Device Support (Preferred or Willing to Learn):

• Programming and patient management for bone-anchored hearing devices
• Programming and follow-up care for cochlear implants

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $90,498.00 - $96,431.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Ability to Commute:

• Colorado Springs, CO 80908 (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Colorado Springs, CO 80908: Relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $90,498 - $96,431