Doctorate Audiologist

The Audiologist-Doctorate position at Baptist Medical Group Otolaryngology Specialists involves providing comprehensive audiology services within a busy ENT practice. This includes assessing the clinical status of patients by diagnosing managing and habilitating patients of all ages with auditory vestibular and related disorders to initiate a treatment process.

• Conduct and interpret a variety of tests including hearing evaluations to diagnose hearing and balance disorders

• Conduct audiometric evaluations and assessments

• Perform comprehensive audiological evaluations including behavioral and physiological testing such as auditory brainstem evoked response (ABR) otoacoustic emissions (OAE) speech detection and recognition auditory perception and middle ear measures

• Administer balance function testing including VNG and EcochG

• Provide patient education and counseling regarding hearing health

• Support day-to-day clinic operations including schedule coordination provision of unscheduled care and maintenance of hearing technology inventory and equipment

• Assesses the clinical status of the peripheral and central auditory and vestibular systems of neonate pediatric adult and geriatric patients to initiate a treatment process

• Develop and implement personalized treatment plans which may include recommending and fitting hearing aids cochlear implants or other assistive listening devices

• Provide direct patient care by fitting and adjusting devices counseling patients and their families on hearing loss management and providing education on prevention

• Provides surgeon with immediate feedback on cranial nerve function toassist in avoiding permanent neurofunctional deficits by using neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring

• Work with other healthcare professionals such as physicians and speech language pathologists as well as medical students and residents to coordinate patient care

• Utilizes professional knowledge and communication skills counsels patient/family regarding results of the assessment and strategies to facilitate patients recovery from or adjustment to a communication disorder

• Employs screening procedures identifies at-risk populations and intervenes to minimize the impact on communication/development/ability

• Utilizes professional expertise; confers with physicians other professionals and/or referral agencies to provide results for assessment and to recommend appropriate treatment/intervention

• Employs appropriate aural rehabilitation procedures improves communication abilities of an individual with hearing loss to maximize the patients interaction skills

• Utilizes the basis of pharmacology to determine how medications may affect the patients symptoms and results of test procedures

• Provides knowledge of business skills and governmental regulations for third party reimbursement as related to audiological services and procedures

• Employs leadership qualities that support and mentor the department and community

• Understands the role of imaging techniques in the evaluation of audio vestibular pathologies

• Share knowledge gained from professional development to foster growth among team members

• Implement and analyze quality improvement initiatives and share findings to improve clinical service delivery

• Maintain accurate patient records and documentation and may be involved in billing and coding

• Completes assigned goals

• Performs other duties as assigned