About the position
This is a Full Time, salaried position at 40 hours per week located at the Evanston clinic. Schedule is 4, 10 hour shifts Tuesday through Friday, 7:00am-5:00pm. The Audiologist is responsible for managing their own panel of patients providing support for those with hearing aids and cochlear implants, therefore the Audiologist will need to have cochlear implant experience. Additionally, the Audiologist collaborates closely with the Otolaryngology team to conduct necessary hearing assessments. The Audiologist reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards. The Audiologist provides diagnostic and habilitation/rehabilitation services for patients with hearing, balance, or other ear-related health conditions. This role performs diagnostic hearing evaluations, hearing aid selection, fitting and follow-up services, cochlear implant evaluation, programming, and rehabilitation, auditory brainstem response evaluations; and neonatal auditory brainstem response screenings. This position routinely acts as preceptor for graduate student clinicians.
Responsibilities
- Obtains case history and formulates appropriate individualized evaluation plan.
- Performs comprehensive adult audiologic evaluations and counsels on results and recommendations.
- Assesses individual amplification options, selects appropriate amplification options, verifies appropriateness of fitting, utilizes real-ear measurement techniques.
- Provides patient education (care, and use of amplification devices), discusses purchase agreement terms, addresses post-fitting issues, and makes programming adjustments as needed.
- Performs, analyzes, and reports on electrophysiologic procedures.
- Provides clinical instruction and evaluation of doctoral students.
- Identifies and evaluates cochlear implant candidates, provides post-surgical activation, programming, rehabilitation, and follow-up services, and performs appropriate documentation of all services provided.
- May perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Audiologist, Licensed (IL).
- Master's degree or higher from accredited program in Audiology.
- Zero (0) to two (2) years’ experience in a relevant role.
Nice-to-haves
- 1-2 years of adult cochlear implant experience.
Benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Loan forgiveness
- 401(k) matching
- Lifecycle benefits
