Pediatric Audiologist

About the role

Join Primary Children’s Hospital as a Pediatric Audiologist and make a meaningful impact delivering exceptional, family-centered care. This weekday role offers a flexible four, 10-hour shift schedule and the opportunity to practice in either inpatient or outpatient environments.

Responsibilities

• Provides audiological services including evidence-based evaluations, interventions, and consultations for the pediatric population.
• Collaborates and educates patients, families, educational contacts, and other healthcare providers for continued care.
• Stays current with audiology professional developments and literature.
• Supports program and department development as assigned.
• Follows all legal, HIPAA, ethical, and compliance guidelines related to an audiology practice.
• Supports student and university outreach programs after two years of experience and after one year of employment at PCH.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Audiology
• Audiology professional licensure
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers
• Pediatric experience, preferred

Qualifications

• Accurate and timely documentation
• Chart auditing
• Accurate billing
• Adherence to current policies, procedures, improvement initiatives, and guidelines

Skills

• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy
• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations
• Ongoing need for employee to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients
• Pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items
• Navigating crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)
• Standing in a stationary position for an extended period of time
• Driving a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles

Benefits

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.