La County Jobs in Los Angeles – AUDIOLOGIST I

Job Description:

Positions allocable to this class receive clinical and administrative supervision from higher-level audiology personnel.  Incumbents work within the framework of established policies and procedures, professional standards, and practice acts to provide audiological services to patients in a range of settings, such as acute medical, psychiatric, rehabilitation hospitals and outpatient settings.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provides auditory training, speech training (lip reading) and/or manual communication in individual or group rehabilitation treatment sessions as needed.
• Evaluates patients to determine needs for amplification and makes recommendations regarding hearing aid fitting and course of aural rehabilitation to be followed.
• Selects and implements rehabilitation and retraining principles and procedures that are compatible with patient needs and capacities as identified by previous testing.
• Determines the type and degree of the audiological deficiency by utilizing standard testing instruments, equipment and procedures, which may include air conduction, bone conduction, speech discrimination tests and other specialized tests.
• Trains and evaluates Audiology graduate students from various colleges and universities.
  Prepares reports of diagnostic evaluations and makes recommendations for appropriate treatment or interventions, which become part of the patients’ medical record for use in consultation with physicians and other health professionals.
• Documents and maintains patients’ records based on established standards.
• Performs diagnostic evaluations of individuals with auditory and/or vestibular deficiencies.
• Confers with referring physicians or other medical personnel regarding the evaluation of the patient’s communication disorders, the type and intensity of rehabilitation and retraining which the patient is receiving, and the progress of the patient; and makes recommendations for additional services as appropriate.
• Adapts diagnostic tools and educational materials and procedures for culturally/linguistically diverse patient populations; utilizes interpreters/translators as necessary for evaluation and training.
• Interprets, analyzes, and evaluates test results to determine the degree, pattern, and nature of hearing loss; determines need for amplification and makes recommendations regarding hearing aid fitting; and reviews patients’ medical history and neurological and psychological test results in order to determine the optimum aural rehabilitative regime to be followed.

Job Details:

Company: County of Los Angeles

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Los Angeles, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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