Audiologist-Nonexempt

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

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 measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

III. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions:

Work is considered sedentary. Position requires work indoors in a patient care and normal office environment.

ADDENDUM FOR AUDIOLOGIST STUDENT/EXTERN LIAISON ROLE

Position Summary:

To facilitate student placements by coordinating with sending schools, provide information on our student placement program and services available to the students and prospective externs.

Major Responsibilities

Student Liaison

1. Coordinate communications between UMass Memorial Medical School and select universities on student placements. Communicate with university on availability of supervisors, what the clinics would look like and how many students are able to participate.

2. Work with Audiology staff regarding student scheduling and supervisory availability. Ensure that Audiologists have completed their supervisory requirements through ASHA.

3. Coordinate that students are properly onboarded.

4. Meet with student on first day of placement and orient them to the department (introductions, policies, badge, etc.).

5. Regularly meet with students and their supervisors to ensure placement for student and super-visor is going well, review any concerns, and communicate with the sending university if needed.

Extern

6. Work with department manager to determine when position is approved and can be posted, and if pay for the position has been approved. Responsible for the posting, job application and interview process.

7. Work with HR, Jane Bania, and the sending school to ensure all contracts are completed.

8. Ensure extern has been properly onboarded, including onboarding schedule, rotation schedule, training sessions, and orientation.

9. Responsible for obtaining supervisory evaluations of students.

10. Regularly meet with students and their supervisors to ensure placement for student and super-visor is going well, review any concerns, and communicate with the sending university if needed.

11. Complete licensure forms at end of externship.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We're striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health - for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.