Baptist Health Medical Group is seeking a full-time Audiologist to join our Ear, Nose, and Throat clinic team. The person in the role will perform assessments, basic audiology procedures, and treat patients with hearing and related disorders. The Audiologist may fit hearing aids, provide auditory training, and/or perform research related to hearing problems. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

1. Administer hearing tests and examine patients to collect information on type and degree of impairment, using specialized instruments and electronic equipment.

2. Fit, dispense, and repair assistive devices, such as hearing aids.

3. Maintain patient records at all stages, including initial and subsequent evaluation and treatment activities.

4. Evaluate hearing and balance disorders to determine diagnoses and courses of treatment.

5. Program and monitor cochlear implants to fit the needs of patients.

6. Counsel and instruct patients and their families in techniques to improve hearing and communication related to hearing loss.

7. Refer patients to additional medical or educational services if needed.

8. Monitor patients' progress and provide ongoing observation of hearing or balance status.

9. Instruct patients, parents, teachers, or employers in communication strategies to maximize effective receptive communication.

10. Recommend assistive devices according to patients' needs or nature of impairments.

11. Participate in conferences or training to update or share knowledge of new hearing or balance disorder treatment methods or technologies.

12. Examine and clean patients' ear canals.

Minimum Education, Experience, Training, and Licensures/Certifications/Registrations Required:

A. Master’s degree in Audiology from an accredited University. Clinical Fellowship year accepted as certification process is completed under the American Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists requirements.

B. CCC-A as required by the American Association of Speech -Language Pathologists and Audiologists (ASHA)

C. Licensure in Audiology as required by the Kentucky State Board in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.

D. Licensure in Hearing Aids as required by the Kentucky State Board for licensing.

E. Specialists in Hearing instruments.

Experience in a medical audiology setting and/or hearing aid dispensing (preferred).

About Baptist Health Medical Group

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed pro...vider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

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