Everyone Is a Caregiver At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day. Performs a variety of duties involving the diagnoses, treatment and management of individuals with hearing loss or balance problems. I.
Major Responsibilities:
Identifies, assesses, diagnoses, manages, and interprets test results related to disorders of human hearing, balance, and other neural systems for neonatal through geriatric populations. Conducts and supervises newborn hearing screening programs. Measures and interprets tests for neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring and cranial nerve assessment. Conducts tests of hearing, balance, and neural system dysfunction. Conducts otoscopic examinations and manages external ear canal. Evaluates and manages children and adults with central auditory processing disorders. Selects, evaluates, fits, facilitates adjustment to and dispensing hearing aids, cochlear implants, sensory aids, hearing assistive devices, alerting systems, telecommunication systems and captioning devices. Provides audiological rehabilitation including speech-reading, communication management, language development, counseling for psychosocial adjustments to hearing loss for persons with hearing loss and their families and caregivers. Acts as a consultant to educators as members of interdisciplinary teams about communication management, education implications of hearing loss, education programming, classroom acoustics, large area amplification systems for children with hearing loss. Designs, implements, and coordinates occupational, school and community hearing conservation and identification programs to prevent workplace and recreational hearing loss due to noise.
Standard Staffing Level Responsibilities:
Complies with established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.
Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients, and visitors.
Maintains, regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.
All responsibilities are essential job functions.
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Position Qualifications
License/Certification/Education
Required:
Master's or Doctorate Degree in Audiology from an accredited institution of higher learning.
Massachusetts' Audiologist license.
Attainment of the Certificate of Clinical Competence within six months of date of hire.
Experience/Skills:
Thorough knowledge of the discipline of Audiology.
Demonstrated skill in analyzing problems and making decisions.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work cooperatively with all members of the healthcare team.
Strong computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
Preferred:- Minimum of 1 year Audiology experience.
- Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.
- Department-specific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.
- III. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions:
- Work is considered sedentary. Position requires work indoors in a patient care and normal office environment.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.
If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.
