Supervisory Audiologist - Assistant Chief

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Boston (MA); Presencial; USD 110 000 - 140 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ VA Boston Healthcare System in Jamaica Plain, MA, seeks a Supervisory Audiologist (GS-13) for the Audiology and Speech Pathology Service. The position is full-time, 40 hours per week, located on the Jamaica Plain campus.

Applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date 10/23/2026 and hold the required education and licensure to practice audiology in the United States.

Qualificações

• Experience determining nature, type, and severity of hearing/communication/vestibular disorders.
• Counseling patients and families regarding management of hearing/communication/vestibular disorders.
• Ability to provide professional advice and consultation to other health care professionals.
• Ability to apply contemporary audiologic treatments to the full range of patient populations.

Conhecimentos

Hearing assessment

Counseling patients

Professional advice

Leadership ability

Formação académica

Doctor of Audiology (AUD)

Other doctoral degree in hearing science

Descrição da oferta de emprego

This Supervisory Audiologist position is located in the Audiology and Speech Pathology Service at VA Boston Healthcare System, in Jamaica Plain, MA campus. The position is full-time at 40 hours per week.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/23/2026.

Basic Requirements:

• Citizenship. Be a citizen of the United States (U.S.). Non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with 38 U.S.C. § 7407(a).
• English Language Proficiency. Healthcare Engineer candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f).

Education:

• Doctor of Audiology (AUD) from an audiology program recognized by the Accreditation Commission for Audiology Education (ACAE) or Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
• HR office staff and management officials may verify a program's accreditation from ACAE at acaeaccred.org and CAA at caa.asha.org.
• OR Other doctoral degree in hearing science or a directly related field from an institution accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
• NOTE: Effective January 1, 2007, the CAA in Audiology and Speech- Language Pathology of ASHA accredits only doctoral degree or AUD programs in audiology.

Licensure:

• Individuals must hold a full, current, and unrestricted license to practice audiology at the doctoral level in a United States state, territory, commonwealth, or the District of Columbia.

Loss of Credential:

• Management officials, in collaboration with HR Office staff must immediately relieve employees who fail to maintain the required licensure of the duties and responsibilities associated with this occupation which may also result in separation from employment.
• HR Office staff must appoint audiologists according to the provisions in VA Handbook, Part II, Chapter 3, Section B, paragraph 16, who have, or have ever had, their licensure revoked, suspended, denied, restricted, limited or issued/placed in a probationary status.

Foreign Education:

• To be creditable, education completed outside the U.S. must have been submitted to a private organization specializing in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials.
• Such education must have been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. programs.

Grade Determinations:

• Supervisory Audiologist, GS-13: Experience: At least two years of experience as a professional audiologist, with at least one year comparable to the next lower grade level (GS-12) and must fully meet the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):
• Experience and KSAs:
  • (a) Skill in determining nature, type, and severity of hearing/communication/vestibular disorders.
  • (b) Skill in counseling patients and family members regarding management of hearing/communication/vestibular disorders.
  • (c) Ability to provide professional advice and consultation in areas related to professional audiology to other health care professionals.
  • (d) Ability to independently apply professional contemporary audiologic treatments to the full range of patient populations.
• Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): In addition to the experience above, the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs:
• Demonstrated KSAs:
  • (a) Skill in communicating established performance benchmarks to a service or equivalent organizational department.
  • (b) Skill in implementing continual performance improvement activities to meet performance benchmarks.
  • (c) Ability to perform a full scope of managerial responsibilities.
  • (d) Ability to lead audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and/or other professionals within associated disciplines.
  • (e) Ability to develop contingencies to ensure continual service operations.

Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.

Physical Requirements:

• See VA Handbook 5019