Job Description:
Pediatric Audiologist – Extended Maternity Leave

Classification: Salary
Position Type: Full-Time, 30-40 hours per week

Reports to: CEO                                                                         

Revision date:  8/7/2024

Overall Purpose

Hear Indiana seeks an energetic, self-directed pediatric audiologist with a desire to deliver child focused diagnostic and intervention services to cover a 5 month maternity leave. This position requires the ability to work on a team of forward-thinking individuals in a state-of-the-art audiology program. This position requires the ability to assess, diagnose and plan as necessary the treatment of auditory issues in children, birth to 21 years of age. A key skill required is the ability to counsel families and to provide consultative services for educational or multidisciplinary case management. This is a year-round position.

Essential Functions:

• Perform clinical diagnostic audiologic evaluations, including but not limited to: VRA, BOA, CPA, ABR, OAE
• Evaluate, fit, verify and maintain amplification in children, especially infants and toddlers
• Preferred, but not required, knowledge of cochlear implant technology, including the evaluation process and device programming
• Generate formal, evidence-based reports on findings
• Assists with service coordination outside of the SHRC, in the community, in the school and in home-based settings to achieve goals in all necessary areas.
• Provide clear oral and written information to the child’s parents, the child’s providers, team members, and the funding organizations (e.g. First Steps)
• Obtains consultation from other members of the team in areas outside own expertise, such as speech-language pathology, social work, cognition, speech development, in order to fully address the needs of individual children on caseload.
• Communicates effectively with audiologist, audiology assistant and patient care coordinator to insure outstanding patient care.
• Administrator for the Hearing Aid Assistance Program of Indiana (HAAPI), reviewing hearing aid selections, sending approvals and answering questions regarding hearing aids for 70+ participating audiologists throughout the State of Indiana. Approximately 10 hrs/wk of administration work.
• Continuous eye for process improvement and developing innovative solutions.
• The meticulous and timely maintenance of all related records for billing purposes.

Additional Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Works with the audiology assistant to maintain accurate inventory of all loaner and demo equipment (e.g., hearing aids, BAHAs, FMs, streamers).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Needed:

• Must maintain licensure/certification and participates actively in service activities and the professional community with own discipline.
• Flexibility and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Ability to lift 30 lbs. Frequent sitting, standing and walking.
• Excellent patient rapport.
• Excellent written and oral (interpersonal) communication skills. Ability to communicate well with patients, families and multidisciplinary professionals despite potential challenges. Excellent collaboration skills.
• Compassion and patience to make a patient feel comfortable.
• Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Thorough and organized. Detailed personality with excellent record keeping skills.
• Technical Capacity (Preferred experience with Phonak, Oticon, Resound, Cochlear, AB, Med-EL, Oticon Medical, NOAH, and EHR software).

Education:

• Minimum of a Master’s Degree in Audiology, Doctor of Audiology preferred.
• Holder of Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) or certification from the American Academy of Audiology (AAA).
• Licensed to practice as an audiologist in Indiana.
• Preference given to those who have been of a team effort in listening and spoken language development.
• Preference given to those passionate for the cause.
• Preference given to those with broad experience (e.g., hearing aids, ABRs, ASSRs, speech perception and recognition testing, FMs and other assistive technology) for infants through teens.
• Preference given to those with cochlear implant mapping experience.

Environment:

• General office environment

Other:

• Please note, this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
• Hear Indiana is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Please send cover letter, resume, and responses to the screening questions below to jobs@hearindiana.org. Thank you!

About Hear Indiana

We believe kids with hearing loss can do anything. That’s why we partner with parents to make that dream a reality. For nearly fifty years, Hear Indiana has empowered and supported families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing through listening and spoken language services. Walking alongside Hoosier parents and children, we provide the information, education, advocacy, and hope you need to move your child from striving to thriving.

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