Audiologist - Audiology, Full-time, Days

Northwestern Medicine has an exciting opportunity for an Audiologist to work in our Audiology department. In this role, you will be working closely with the ENT Otology Providers and Otology PAs. This position is all outpatient.

Schedule: Monday – Friday working (4)10 hour days; day off TBD

The Audiologist reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The Audiologist provides diagnostic and habilitation/rehabilitation services for patients with hearing, balance, or other ear-related health conditions. This role performs diagnostic hearing evaluations, hearing aid selection, fitting and follow-up services, cochlear implant evaluation, programming, and rehabilitation, auditory brainstem response evaluations; and neonatal auditory brainstem response screenings. This position routinely acts as preceptor for graduate student clinicians.

Responsibilities:

• Obtains case history and formulates appropriate individualized evaluation plan.
• Performs comprehensive adult audiologic evaluations and counsels on results and recommendations.
• Assesses individual amplification options, selects appropriate amplification options, verifies appropriateness of fitting, utilizes real-ear measurement techniques.
• Provides patient education (care, and use of amplification devices), discusses purchase agreement terms, addresses post-fitting issues, and makes programming adjustments as needed.
• Performs, analyzes, and reports on electrophysiologic procedures.
• Provides clinical instruction and evaluation of doctoral students.
• Identifies and evaluates cochlear implant candidates, provides post-surgical activation, programming, rehabilitation, and follow-up services, and performs appropriate documentation of all services provided.
• May perform other duties as assigned.