Job Description:
Our mission is to heal, serve and empower the Ndee (Apache people) while honoring the traditions through compassionate and respectful patient-centered team.
**This is an ASAP need!**
Duties:
- Conducts comprehensive evaluations, overall findings and diagnoses of patients through use of history and other appropriate tests
- Administer and interpret screening, assessment, and diagnostic procedures, such as air conduction, bone conduction, speech audiometry, acoustic emittance (impedance) tests
- Design rehabilitation programs to help patients learn to identify sounds
- Measure hearing ability, and/or severity of hearing loss in individuals of all ages
- Assess the benefit of amplification devices, such as hearing aids
- Educate individuals on the use and care/maintenance of hearing aids or other assistive listening devices
- Maintains knowledge and proficiency through continuing education, staff meetings and workshop participation
- Participates in departmental orientation, on the job training and quality assurance programs/initiatives
- Participates in a variety of department and hospital educational programs to maintain current skill and competency levels; identifies and discusses performance or training needs with Supervisor
- Uphold all principles of confidentiality and patient care to the fullest extent.
- Adhere to all professional and ethical behavior standards of the healthcare industry.
- Interact in an honest, trustworthy and respectful manner with patients, employees, visitors and vendors.
- Display respect and understanding of all individual’s personal and cultural beliefs, values, ideas and contributions in a supportive manner
- Provide the utmost in customer service to both patients and fellow associates
- Performs other duties as required
Knowledge and Skills:
- Knowledge of the methods, practices and techniques of the field of Audiology
- Skills in the assessment, evaluation and treatment of individuals
- Skills associated with effective listening and communication
- Skills associated with making diagnoses, choosing, initiating and modifying therapies
- Ability to work with a variety of patients of varying ages
- Ability to quickly change priorities based on changing requirements
- Ability to discuss practices, techniques and procedures in lay terms
- Ability to regularly change priorities to accomplish tasks with frequent interruptions
- Activities are primarily performed in an environmentally controlled healthcare clinic subject to extended periods of sitting, standing and walking
- Visual acuity and manual dexterity associated with daily use of desktop computer equipment; bending, lifting, reaching, stooping and lifting up to 25 pounds.
- Regularly works in an environment subject to quickly changing and often conflicting priorities while supporting leadership needs and requirements
Details:
- This is a CONTRACT/LOCUMS position, lasting for 13 weeks.
- Working at a primary care facility so seeing patients of all ages
- The start date is July 8th
- Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $55.00 - $62.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Medical specialties:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Application Question(s):
- Have you graduated from an accredited Audiology program with a Masters or Ph.D. degree?
License/Certification:
- BLS Certification (Preferred)
Ability to Relocate:
- Peridot, AZ: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person