Audiologist - Chief

Veterans Health Administration

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 123,000 - 160,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

The Veterans Health Administration's Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center in Houston, TX seeks a Supervisory Audiologist Chief to lead the Audiology Section within the Operative Care Line.

The role emphasizes technical and administrative supervision, service leadership, and responsible management of clinical practice and program operations. You will oversee budget execution, policy development, staff performance, and interdepartmental coordination to ensure high-quality veteran care.

Qualifications

Experience with healthcare program management and leadership.
Ability to manage budgets and supervise staff.
Knowledge of regulatory compliance and accreditation requirements.

Responsibilities

Provide technical and administrative supervision as a service chief.
Manage stand-alone services, product lines or service lines with line and staff authority.
Plan, assess, and evaluate programs to coordinate care and delivery of health services.
Prepare reports, briefing papers, and decision documents for medical center leadership.

Skills

Supervision

Budget management

Policy analysis

Leadership

Job description

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

This position is in the Audiology Section of the Operative Care Line at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC) in Houston, Texas.

Key Responsibilities

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major duties include, but are not limited to: This position as a Supervisory Audiologist spends 25% or more of your time providing technical and administrative supervision. This position serves as a service chief, managing stand-alone services, product lines or service lines.

You will typically have line and staff authority for resource allocations within the area of responsibility and ensure the efficient operation of the organizational unit. You will have a broad and overall responsibility for the service-level department and full responsibility for clinical practice, program management, education, human resource management, and supervision for the service, as appropriate.

You autonomously manage substantive parts of specialized, complex, professional services that significantly impact Veterans' care. You provide leadership with objective, independent assessments and recommendations for policy, operational and administrative issues and initiatives requiring decision and action.

As a Service chief, you are responsible for planning, assessing, and evaluating programs to ensure coordination between care delivered by the program and the overall delivery of health care within the facility. You interpret and process a wide variety of data related to program planning and the specialized needs of the Veteran, the service, and the medical center.

You assure compliance with accrediting agency and regulatory requirements and corrective action is initiated as needed. As a service chief in this assignment, you ensure policies or issues have been fully coordinated, vetted, and staffed. You advise leadership on policy implications, key issues, relationships to internal and external interest groups, and recommend courses of action.

You maintain interdepartmental relationships with other services to accomplish medical center goals. Service chiefs in this assignment coordinate and negotiate resolutions to complex problems. You may prepare special reports and responses, Congressional responses, briefing papers, issue briefs, and decision papers for the medical center leadership, which may be highly sensitive, confidential and of a complex nature as requested.

You are responsible for professional and administrative management of an assigned area, including budget execution. As a service chief, you are assigned develop policies and procedures and may develop performance standards, position descriptions, and functional statements.

You conduct performance appraisals and perform other clinical and administrative responsibilities related to the management of staff to ensure that the mission of the service and the medical center has been satisfied. You may set training objectives and delegate responsibilities to subordinate sections. Work Schedule: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. OR 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 580-02443-F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Requirements & Education

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.

For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $122749 – $159575/yr.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-19.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Competitive' hiring path.