Fantastic Audiologist Opportunity In Erie, PA

Join a team that values a healthy home/work-life balance and be rewarded by your role in keeping the promise to those who served.

• Schedule flexibility to work 4- 10 hours shifts; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday*

Erie, PA, is Pennsylvania's fifth largest city located on Presque Isle Bay and Lake Erie. It is one of the largest grape-growing regions in the country as well as home to three minor-pro sports teams! The location allows for your commute to be stress-free. It is a short drive to Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. Enjoy golf, festivals, arts, entertainment, beaches, and fishing.

This position is in the Audiology Suite of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department at the Erie VA Medical Center. The primary function of this position is direct patient care involving a comprehensive array of professional services related to the prevention of hearing loss and the identification, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of persons with impairment of auditory and vestibular function.

Major Duties include but are not limited to:

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

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

• Performing otoscopic examinations and external ear canal management for removal of cerumen.

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

• Evaluating and providing rehabilitation for central auditory processing disorders.

• 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.

• 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.

• Determining candidacy based on hearing and communication information for auditory implants and making appropriate referrals.

• Providing auditory rehabilitation including speech reading, communication management, language development, auditory skill development, and counseling for psychosocial adjustment to hearing loss for persons with hearing loss and their families/caregivers.

• Designing, implementing, supervising, and coordinating industrial or occupational hearing conservation and identification programs including prevention, identification and amelioration of noise-hazardous conditions, identification of hearing loss, recommendation, and counseling on use of hearing protection, employee education, training and supervision.

• Training, supervising, and managing health technicians and other support personnel.

Basic Requirements :

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.

• Education:

• (1) Doctor of Audiology (AuD) from an audiology program recognized by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the American Speech Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). The CAA is the only accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation to accredit entry-level audiology programs. HR office staff and management officials may verify the program accredited from CAA at www.caa.asha.org. OR

• (2) Other doctoral degree in hearing science or a directly related field from an institution accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the USDE. NOTE: Effective January 1, 2007, the CAA in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology of ASHA accredits only doctoral degree or AuD programs in audiology. NOTE for Foreign Education: To be creditable, education completed outside the U.S. must have been submitted to a private organization specializing in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials. Such education must have been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. programs.

• Licensure: Individuals must hold a full, current and unrestricted license to practice audiology at the doctoral level in a United States state, territory, commonwealth or the District of Columbia.

• English Language Proficiency: Audiologist candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. § 7403(f).

May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria).

Grade Determinations : Audiologist, GS-12.

• Experience: In addition to meeting the basic requirements, completion of one year of professional experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level is required. Examples of experience include: experience with principles and techniques in the assessment and treatment of auditory and balance disorders; performing functions associated with contemporary audiology scope of practice as defined by the American Academy of Audiology or the ASHA; interacting with patients, families and other health care professionals.

• Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): In addition to the KSAs required at the full performance level, the following KSAs are required:

• Skill in determining nature, type and severity of hearing/communication /vestibular disorders.

• Skill in counseling patients and family members regarding management of hearing/communication/vestibular disorders.

• Ability to provide professional advice and consultation in areas related to professional audiology to other health care professionals.

• Ability to independently apply professional contemporary audiologic treatments to the full range of patient populations.

• Assignment: This is the full performance level for staff audiologists. At this level, audiologists are licensed to practice independently in the provision of audiologic services, consulting with peers and supervisors as appropriate. Audiologists serve as consultants to other health care professionals and are recognized subject matter experts (SME) on matters related to hearing, tinnitus, and balance disorders. The supervisor may assign staff audiologists to any VHA program and setting, such as inpatient or outpatient medicine, primary care, surgery, hearing health, neurology, rehabilitation medicine, geriatrics, compensation, and pension. Audiologists diagnose audiologic disorders, conduct audiologic or neuro-audiologic assessments, treat auditory disorders through various modalities and provide adjunctive interventions for the treatment of medical disorders. Audiologists consult with medical center staff on various patient care issues. Staff audiologists may be involved in program evaluation, teaching, training, and research activities. Among the modalities provided are individual, family and group audiologic rehabilitation.