Temporary Audiology Clinical Educator Vacancy Pool

Position Title

Temporary Audiology Clinical Educator Vacancy Pool

About the University

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

About the Department

The Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) Department supports Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The SLHS Department consists of a diverse faculty and clinical/technical staff serving both undergraduate and graduate students. The department offers a B.A. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, an M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology, an AuD in Audiology, and serves the community with its donations-based Speech-Language-Hearing Clinics. The SLHS undergraduate and graduate programs offer courses in a lock-step sequence beginning in the fall quarter of each academic year.

This pool is utilized as needed to support departmental needs.

Total work hours will not exceed 1,050 hours in any consecutive 12-month period from the original date of hire.

About the Position

As a member of an interdisciplinary team in Western Washington University’s Speech and Hearing Clinics, provides professional audiology services to individuals with communicative disabilities such as hearing loss or impairments, auditory processing, and aural rehabilitation. Develops habilitation or rehabilitation programs for individuals and monitors/evaluates their progress. Under general supervision, educate, prepare, and supervise audiology graduate students in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences in the evaluation and treatment of communication disorders, and in the development of related interpersonal and professional/technical skills. Provide direct services to patients, demonstrating clinical skills for undergraduate and graduate CSD students.

The position helps fulfill the mission of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences by providing the highest quality student-centered learning environment where undergraduate and graduate students develop the knowledge, clinical skills, and life-long learning skills to prepare them for professional careers and advanced study in speech-language pathology and audiology.

Required Qualifications

• A master's degree in audiology;
• a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-A) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA);
• License to practice audiology and dispense hearing aids from the state of Washington;
• And, two years of experience as an audiologist, including experience with both diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

Preferred Qualifications

• Clinical doctorate (AuD) degree in audiology;
• Experience supervising graduate students;
• Experience as a clinical educator at a university;