What are the responsibilities and job description for the Audiologist position at Indian Health Services?
Location: Jemez Pueblo, NM Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov
Type: Tribal Salary Range: $48,024 to $72,036 / Per Year Open Period: 11/17/2014 to 11/17/2015 Summary: Provides diagnostic and therapeutic services by assessing and treating neonate, infant, children, adolescent, adult, and geriatric hearing, balance, and communication disorders. This is a 3/4 time position. Duties:
Type: Tribal Salary Range: $48,024 to $72,036 / Per Year Open Period: 11/17/2014 to 11/17/2015 Summary: Provides diagnostic and therapeutic services by assessing and treating neonate, infant, children, adolescent, adult, and geriatric hearing, balance, and communication disorders. This is a 3/4 time position. Duties:
• Evaluate hearing and speech/language disorders to determine diagnoses and courses of treatment.
• Administer hearing or speech/language evaluations, tests, or examinations to patients to collect information on type and degree of impairment, using specialized instruments and electronic equipment.
• Fit and dispense assistive devices, such as hearing aids.
• Maintain client records at all stages, including initial evaluation and discharge.
• Refer clients to additional medical or educational services if needed.
• Counsel and instruct clients in techniques to improve hearing or speech impairment, including sign language or lip-reading.
• Monitor clients' progress and discharge them from treatment when goals have been attained.
• Plan and conduct treatment programs for clients' hearing or speech problems, consulting with physicians, nurses, psychologists, and other health care personnel as necessary.
• Recommend assistive devices according to clients' needs or nature of impairments.
• Participate in conferences or training to update or share knowledge of new hearing or speech disorder treatment methods or technologies.
• Instruct clients, parents, teachers, or employers in how to avoid behavior patterns that lead to miscommunication.
• Examine and clean patients' ear canals.
• Educate and supervise audiology health care personnel.
• Fit and tune cochlear implants, providing rehabilitation for adjustment to listening with implant amplification systems.
• Advise educators or other medical staff on speech or hearing topics.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to assess and rehabilitate recipients of implanted hearing devices.
• Develop and supervise hearing screening programs.
• Conduct or direct research on hearing or speech topics and report findings to help in the development of procedures, technology, or treatments.
• Conducts diagnostic hearing evaluations and administer aural rehabilitation procedures on eligible patients. Such procedures would include puretone and speech audiometry evaluations, otoscopy and tympanometry.
• Conduct Otoacoustic emissions.
• Conduct hearing aid evaluations; fit and dispense hearing aids when appropriate.
• Counsel patients as needed regarding aural rehabilitative training and follow-up.
• Recommend assistive listening devices and train clients to utilize them appropriately.
• Conduct liaison and interagency coordination with other health care professionals, educators, community members, schools and various organizational committees as needed.
• Provide administrative support as needed for program development including: data collection; patient and program reports; in-services and presentations. Qualifications: EDUCATION:
• Doctors of Audiology (Au. D) Degree LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:
• Licensed to practice Audiology and dispense hearing aids in State of New Mexico or obtain within 60 days of hire
• Certification of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC-A) Work Type: Permanent, Part Announcement #: 14-16 Who May Apply? All Groups of Qualified Individuals
Salary : $48,024 - $72,036
