Overview
Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.
Performs as a staff clinician, utilizing the professional skills of an audiologist to provide diagnostic and treatment services for the general population (birth-geriatric).
Responsibilities
A day in the life of a Audiologist I at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:
- Identifies persons with hearing handicaps and to determine the type and degree of hearing impairment or auditory disorder through history, interview and selection of audiologic test batteries through accepted standard practice including: pure-tone audiometry, immittance audiometry, otoacoustic emissions, and speech audiometry.
- Knowledge of vestibular function testing and interpretation.
- Interprets diagnostic findings to the interdisciplinary team, family members, referring physician(s), other professionals, and school personnel.
- Participates as a member of an interdisciplinary team including medical, educational therapeutic, rehabilitation, and social service personnel within the medical center and the community (e.g., Team Staffing, IEP meetings, Program Coordination Meetings).
- Completes written records as required by the Medical Center, such as formal diagnostic evaluation reports, discharge summaries, IEPs, IFSPs, SOAP notes, and progress notes.
- Plans and provides individual and/or group therapy for children with hearing/communication handicaps.
- Provides counseling and guidance to family members in facilitation of therapy goals at home.
- Establishes patient's needs for and to arrange: additional diagnostic consultation and/or therapy; transfer to another division within the Medical Center and/or outside agency; termination of therapy.
- Maintains records for the purpose of data collection or research projects, statistics, and hospital billing, including third party accountability.
- Enters appropriate diagnosis and procedure codes in the electronic medical record/billing system within 24 hours.
- Provides therapeutic services for children and adults with hearing loss, including but not limited to hearing aid evaluation speech reading instruction, aural (re)habilitation assessment and long term programming.
- Participates in daily acoustical/biologic calibration of equipment and maintenance of ASHA standards.
- Participates in routine end-of-day cleaning of equipment and supplies in the Department.
- Remains current in the state of the art of audiological techniques, research and rehabilitative/diagnostics.
- Clinically utilizes immittance equipment as developmentally appropriate.
- Audiologists will uphold the ASHA and AAA Codes of Ethics and will perform all duties with integrity, competence, quality, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness, good faith, courtesy, honesty, dedication, and without discrimination.
- Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
- Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.
Qualifications
Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- Graduate or Postgraduate Degree in Audiology (MA, MS, Au.D., Sc.D., Ph.D.)
- Eligible for New Jersey State License/provisional License in Audiology.
- Knowledge of and the ability to discuss in layman's terms the various hearing aid technologies, bone conduction hearing devices, cochlear implants, remote microphones, etc.
- Knowledge of different hearing aid prescription formulae, their rationales, and their implementation and understanding real-ear or simulated real-ear or other appropriate methods of verification of benefit from amplification.
- Knowledge of the models for newborn hearing screening programs utilizing ABR, OAEs and combined approaches.
- Knowledge of Central Auditory Processing Disorders and the assessment of Central Auditory Function utilizing behavioral measures and electrophysiological measures.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficient computer skills that may include but are not limited to Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite platforms.
Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:
- Previous hearing aid dispensing and pediatric audiology experience
- Minimum of one year of clinical experience in a hospital setting
- Maintains ASHA CCC-A.
- Maintains required continuing education requirements for License (currently 20 hours biannually).
Licenses and Certifications Required:
- Eligible for or holds Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC-A) from American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
- Eligible for or holds NJ State Licensure in Audiology.
Licenses and Certifications Preferred:
- Audiology License and Certificate of Clinical Competence - Audiology.
Contacts:
- Regular contact with Medical Center personnel, patients and visitors.
If you feel the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!
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