Audiologist - RECRUITMENT/RELOCATION INCENTIVE

Summary

The Audiologist conducts a full range of audiological evaluations to determine the type and degree of hearing loss, determines Veterans' need for amplification, predicts and measures the effectiveness of amplification, and determines need for and type of rehabilitation and counseling of Veterans with hearing loss and their families. This position is assigned to all sites of care within VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System.

A recruitment/relocation incentive may be authorized

Duties

This vacancy will remain open until filled. The first cut-off date is February 13, 2024. Additional applications will be referred as needed. (NOTE: Applications expire after 90 days. Please update application thru USAJobs if you wish to be reconsidered.)

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Responsible for the identification, evaluation, rehabilitation and proper referral of Veterans having organically based and non-organically based hearing disorders.
• Seeing Veterans from a variety of referral sources.
• Selection of reliable and valid clinical tests and instruments in order to identify Veterans with hearing loss as well as determining site of lesion within the auditory system.
• Maintaining close liaison with other medical, allied health and administrative services at the medical center in order to contribute to the total rehabilitation of the Veteran.
• Identification, evaluation and referral of Veterans to an aural rehabilitation program.
• Providing accurate data, on a timely basis, for reports, which are transmitted to Central Office management, Medical Center management, or other destinations.
• Current relevant professional literature is reviewed in order to incorporate new ideas and research findings into the program so that Veterans will be provided with increasingly better care.
• Participates in the training of graduate level audiology and speech pathology trainees, medical students, resident physicians, as well as members of other professional disciplines on normal communication and communication disorders.
• Conducts and participates in individual and cooperative research projects on normal and disordered communication.
• Follows prescribed safety procedures, using appropriate lifting methods and body mechanisms for heavy lifting or moving of heavy objects.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 000000

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized for a highly qualified candidate

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Recruitment Incentives. Recruitment incentives may be authorized to full-time, part time, or intermittent individuals in their first appointment as a Federal employee or to a newly appointed former Federal employee with at least a 90-day break in service

Relocation Incentives. Relocation incentives may be authorized to full-time Federal employees who must change worksites and physically relocate to a different geographic area when the approving official determines that without the incentive, it would be difficult to fill the position with a high-quality candidate.

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