This position is eligible for a $15,000 sign on bonus!
Job Summary:
To assess, diagnose, and treat patients with hearing, balance, and related disorders.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Evaluates patients' audiologic function, interprets findings, and reviews test results with patients or responsible adults.
- Documents patients' case history, test results, and recommendations for follow-up in the medical record and reports results and recommendations to referring physicians and/or primary care physicians.
- Counsels patients about treatment options for hearing loss and refers patients to the ear, nose, and throat department for consultation when appropriate.
- Counsels patients about management of chronic tinnitus.
- Educates patients about hearing conservation.
- Evaluates patients' vestibular function when referred for dizziness, vertigo, or imbalance.
- Performs canalith repositioning maneuvers for patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and counsels patients about vestibular rehabilitation exercises when appropriate.
- Performs and interprets electrophysiologic and special tests of the peripheral and central auditory system.
- Evaluates hearing status of infants and young children with an appropriate comprehensive battery of tests.
- Counsels patients regarding hearing aid device options.
- Evaluates patients' hearing aids when appropriate and enters referrals for hearing aids for members with a hearing aid benefit.
- Additional specialized duties may include: programming and fitting implantable devices such as cochlear implants, bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHA), and similar devices; fitting, programming, and troubleshooting hearing aids and assistive listening devices, including electroacoustic analysis and real-ear measures; advanced vestibular assessment such as rotary chair, vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs), posturography, or video head impulse testing (vHIT).
- Performs other related duties as directed.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
Education
- Current employees: Master's degree AND a minimum of four (4) years of experience in audiology required - OR - an Au.D.
- New hires: Au.D.
License, Certification, Registration
- Audiologist License (Maryland)
- National Provider Identifier
- PECOS Enrollment within 3 months of hire
- Basic Life Support from American Heart Association
Additional Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum one (1) year of experience in vestibular testing (videonystagmography (VNG) or electronystagmography (ENG)).
- Minimum one (1) year of experience in behavioral pediatric assessment (infants and toddlers).
- Minimum one (1) year of experience in Auditory Evoked Potential testing (all ages).