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Exemption Status:

Non-Exempt

Schedule Details:

Monday through Friday

Scheduled Hours:

8a - 430p

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

40

Cost Center:

24050 - 4095 Multidisciplinary Clinic

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

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 16,000 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.

I. Major Responsibilities:

1. Identifies, assesses, diagnoses, manages, and interprets test results related to disorders of hu-man hearing, balance, and other neural systems for neonatal through geriatric populations.

2. 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.

3. Selects, evaluates, fits, facilities adjustment to and dispensing hearing aids, cochlear implants, sensory aids, hearing assistive devices, alerting systems, telecommunication systems and caption-ing devices.

4. Provides audiological rehabilitation including speech-reading, communication management, lan-guage development, counseling for psychosocial adjustments to hearing loss for persons with hearing loss and their families and caregivers.

5. Acts as a consultant to educators as members of interdisciplinary teams about communication management, education implications of hearing loss, education programming, classroom acous-tics, large area amplification systems for children with hearing loss.

6. 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:

1. Complies with established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.

2. Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.

3. Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.

4. Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.

5. 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.

6. Maintains, regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.

7. Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

II. Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education:

Required:

1. Master's or Doctorate Degree in Audiology from an accredited institution of higher learning.

2. Massachusetts’ Audiologist license.

3. Attainment of the Certificate of Clinical Competence within six months of date of hire.

Experience/Skills:

Required:

1. Thorough knowledge of the discipline of Audiology.

2. Demonstrated skill in analyzing problems and making decisions.

3. Strong verbal and written communication skills.

4. Ability to work cooperatively with all members of the healthcare team.

5. Strong computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.

Preferred:

1. 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 measurement