Audiologist

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center - West Bronx, NY

Full-time

West Bronx, NY

Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

About the position

The position involves evaluating, treating, and counseling patients of all ages with hearing disorders, ensuring adherence to professional and corporate quality standards. The role emphasizes a commitment to total quality improvement and requires collaboration with other healthcare professionals to develop effective treatment plans.

Responsibilities

• Conducts hearing and balance evaluations for inpatients and outpatients, including neonates, pediatric patients, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.
• Assesses the history, medical diagnosis, social, and communicative condition of the patient through testing and interviews to establish a basis for treatment.
• Characterizes the perceptual abilities and physiological state of the auditory system in patients of all ages through history, interview, and formal diagnostic testing.
• Understands otologic and neurological diagnostic processes to obtain audiological information that aids physicians in diagnosis.
• Generates timely, clear, and succinct written communications for treating physicians.
• Understands the theory behind established clinical protocols and can modify diagnostic procedures to meet patient needs without sacrificing test reliability or validity.
• Has expertise in at least two areas of Audiology and provides inservice and professional training in those areas.
• Develops rational treatment and monitoring plans with patients and their significant others, including the use of amplification and counseling.
• Develops methods to identify hearing-impaired patients in the hospital and community and facilitates awareness of hearing impairment management.
• Participates in quality monitoring and evaluation activities to ensure compliance with JCAHO and other quality standards.

Requirements

• Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC-A)
• Three to five (3-5) years of clinical experience in a medical/hospital setting
• New York State License as an Audiologist