HCSS Audiologist

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.