Detroit Medical Center is seeking a Audiologist for a job in Detroit, Michigan.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Audiologist
- Discipline: Therapy
- Duration: Ongoing
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days
- Employment Type: Staff
Children’s Hospital of Michigan is an international leader in pediatric and adolescent medicine. Surgical services include general, thoracic, reconstructive and cardiovascular. Imaging technology designed specifically for children provides advanced diagnostic services including Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and MRI. The Children’s Hospital of Michigan Emergency Department is a verified Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center and dedicated pediatric burn center. Experts in pediatric critical care, rehabilitation, and neonatal and perinatal medicine provide care for thousands of children every year at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Children’s Hospital of Michigan - Troy and six ambulatory sites.
Job Summary
Under general direction, responsible for diagnosing, evaluating and determining treatment programs for patients with hearing impairment in order to restore and/or improve communicative skills.
1.Conducts diagnostic hearing evaluations of patients, including hearing, hearing behavior, integrity of the auditory pathways, and middle ear function. Interprets test results to determine degree of and nature of hearing loss and plan treatment.
2.Prepares treatment plan and goals/objectives for patients receiving hearing therapy. Provides hearing therapy or aural habilitation/rehabilitation for hearing impaired patients as scheduled.
3.Counsels parents of hearing impaired patients regarding the nature and degree of the impairment, the need for amplification (use of a hearing aid), educational issues, care and use of the hearing aid, importance of auditory training and language impact, etc.
4.Makes appropriate referrals for patients to various outside resources including educational programs or services such as neurology, psychology, or otolaryngology. Prepares reports and ensures dissemination as necessary for each patient.
5.Makes hearing aid earmolds, selects amplification; conducts electroacoustic analyses of hearing aids; uses real ear measures and follows up with patient after hearing aid is received.
6.Produces letters, reports and other documentation for patient medical records, departmental charts and as needed for insurance companies and billing purposes.
7.May travel between sites to provide audiological services for department and to otolaryngology practices.
8.May participate in any or all of the following, as assigned, such as Cleft Palate Team or equipment calibration.
9.Participates in activities that increase hearing therapy knowledge, professional expertise, and the delivery of quality patient services.
10. May maintain Hearing Aid Loaner Library, checking on availability of instruments and need for repair. May maintain FM auditory training equipment and provides inservice for staff speech pathologists and other department/agency personnel in use, maintenance and trouble shooting of equipment.
11. Establish follow-up schedule for recall of patients needing re-evaluation. Performs annual follow-up on hearing impaired caseload including auditory evoked potential testing, audiological assessment, aided hearing responses, electroacoustic analysis of hearing aids and earmold fit.
Qualifications:1. Masters or doctorate degree in Audiology.
2. Certification of Clinical Competence in Audiology from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, or must obtain certification within 3 months from the date of hire into the Audiologist job classification
3. Current license to practice as an Audiologist in the State of Michigan.
Job: Therapy and Rehabilitation Primary Location: Detroit, Michigan Facility: DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan Job Type: Full Time Shift Type: Day
Detroit Medical Center Job ID #4369-2406004412-2. Posted job title: Audiologist Full Time Days
About Detroit Medical Center
The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is the leading academically–integrated hospital system in Metro Detroit, and one of the largest health care providers in Southeast Michigan. During our 150+ years of caring for the community, we have been recognized nationally with top awards in many aspects of hospital operations and patient care. The DMC is able to achieve these awards because of our exceptional employees.
The Detroit Medical Center is one the largest academic medical centers in the United States, with a long and rich history of medical education, for more than 100 years. We train more physicians than any other hospital in Detroit.
Our evidence-based approach inspires confidence and spurs innovation. It ensures that we are making treatment decisions based on our experience, on the best available research and our understanding of each patient as an individual.
Our commitment to our patients
Our commitment to patient care and improving patient outcomes is part of everything we do. It’s our mission. It’s our promise to every patient and every family who entrusts their care to us.
To meet the needs of our community, we operate 8 hospitals and more than 140 clinics and outpatient facilities across southeast Michigan, including a nationally recognized dedicated pediatric hospital (Children’s Hospital of Michigan) as well as a nationally recognized rehabilitation hospital (Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan). We offer an inclusive, diverse and supportive environment. Knowing that we are better together, our teams are highly collaborative and integrated to deliver the high quality and compassionate care our patients expect and deserve. Staff members have a voice in forming our culture; one that is often referred to as “my forever family” and “colleagues who have my back”.
The DMC has a proud legacy of caring for the people and the families that call Metro Detroit home; they’re our neighbors, our friends, and our community. That’s why the DMC serves everyone in the community who needs us; no one gets turned away who comes to us for care. From local food drives to our long-standing commitment to educate and empower our community towards better health, you can count on the DMC. There’s a spirit of caring and togetherness that you will experience when you join the DMC family. We are a community build on care.
At the DMC, we are committed to maintaining an environment of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. If you need a reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this web site, please contact the DMC facility where the position is available, for further assistance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or status as an individual disability.
Employee Benefits
At the DMC, health and well-being are important to us, so we provide a range of benefits and options to help meet the needs of all eligible employees. In addition to a range of healthcare plans, including higher and lower deductible options, we offer dental, vision and an employee assistance plan. Basic life insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance are provided for free to eligible plan members. Employees can also choose to participate in one of several supplemental life insurance and/or disability plans, a legal services plan and an identity protection plan. For those employees who are looking for support to care for family members, we also offer child and elder care programs.
To help employees prepare for retirement, we offer a 401K savings plan, and an employee discount plan that includes discounts for a wide variety of products, including auto and home insurance and mobile plans.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Employee assistance programs
- Life insurance
- Discount program
