Audiologist - Recruitment/Relocation Incentive Authorized

1 month ago


El Paso, Texas, United States Department Of Veterans Affairs Full time
Summary

This position will be located in the El Paso VA HCS Audiology Department. The audiologist conducts audiological assessment to determine a patient's need for amplification, predict effectiveness of amplification, determine need for and type of aural rehabilitation and counseling of the hearing-impaired veteran and their family, conducts and interprets behavioral, electroacoustic, or electrophysiological methods used to assess hearing, balance, tinnitus, and neural system functions.



Duties

The Audiologist:

  • Assess the degree and nature of hearing loss, evaluates the vestibular/balance systems.
  • Identifies and evaluates Individuals with hearing disorders in the reception and perception of speech, language, and other acoustic signals. Administers the full range of tests including the testing of vestibular nerve function; evaluates the type and degree of hearing loss of patients who are normally unable to provide consistent and reliable reaction to diagnostics.
  • Recommends remedial measures to mitigate hearing loss:
  • is responsible for direct services of remedial and sometimes preventative nature. The services encompass the following: use of hearing aids; the selection of monaural, binaural or cross hearing aids of particular type; the issuance of ear defenders for prevention of acoustic trauma for those individuals working in a noise environment; recommendations for special ear molds made necessary because of allergic reactions, severe hearing loss or other reasons; recommendations for procurement of special instruments such as desk amplifiers, telephone amplifiers, radio, or TV magnetic induction devices for special communication problems; routine hearing aid inspection and repair where indicated.
  • Develops treatment plans for most difficult and complex cases.
  • Recommends aural rehabilitation programs for patients with significant physical and psychological complicating conditions.
  • Designs training plans to assist patient and caregivers in utilizing available hearing resources.
  • Sometimes makes a recommendation for change of job in those cases where hearing loss is progressing due to high noise level exposure.
  • Performs other related duties including vestibular/balance systems evaluation, as well as tinnitus patients, falls risk assessment, and recommends treatments and management options.
Audiologists. Audiologists serve Veterans, families, caregivers, stakeholders, and the Nation through a broad range of professional activities including:

1. Promoting, designing, implementing, and coordinating wellness programs for prevention of hearing loss and protection of hearing function.

2. Identifying, evaluating, diagnosing, managing, and treating disorders of human hearing, balance, tinnitus, and other disorders associated with the practice of audiology.

3. Performing otoscopic examination and external ear canal management for removal of cerumen.

4. Conducting and interpreting behavioral, electroacoustic, or electrophysiologic tests used to evaluate disorder associated with the practice of audiology.

5. Administering and interpreting electrophysiologic measurements of neural function including, but not limited to, sensory and motor evoked potentials, tests of nerve conduction velocity, and electromyography. These measurements are used in differential diagnosis, pre- and postoperative evaluation of neural function, and neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring of central nervous system, spinal cord, and cranial nerve function.

6. Evaluating and providing rehabilitation for central auditory processing disorders.

7. Determining the appropriateness of amplification devices and systems such as hearing aids, sensory aids, hearing assistive devices, alerting and telecommunication systems, and captioning devices; for Veterans with hearing impairment taking into consideration physical, acoustic, cosmetic, situational, and contextual factors.

8. Selecting, evaluating, fitting and programming amplification devices and systems customized to the individual needs of Veterans; verifying the effectiveness of such devices or systems; counseling and training Veterans in the use of amplification devices and systems, and determining the benefit of amplification devices and systems.

9. Determining candidacy based on hearing and communication information for auditory implants (e.g., cochlear implants, middle ear implantable hearing aids, fully implantable hearing aids, bone-anchored and post-surgical assessment, counseling, and all aspects of audiologic treatment including auditory training, rehabilitation, implant programming, and maintenance of implant hardware and software.

10. Providing auditory rehabilitation including speech reading (if qualified), communication management, language development, auditory skill development, and counseling for psychosocial adjustment to hearing loss for persons with hearing loss and their families/caregivers to optimize residual hearing and to mitigate the effects of hearing impairment on activity, participation, and quality of life.

Work Schedule: M-F, 8AM - 4:45 PM

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 000000

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized for highly qualified applicants

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required


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