Audiologist - Audiology

ABOUT MARINHEALTH
Are you looking for a place where you are empowered to bring innovation to reality? Join MarinHealth, an integrated, independent healthcare system with deep roots throughout the North Bay. With a world-class physician and clinical team, an affiliation with UCSF Health, an ever-expanding network of clinics, and a new state-of-the-art hospital, MarinHealth is growing quickly. MarinHealth comprises MarinHealth Medical Center, a 327-bed hospital in Greenbrae, and 55 primary care and specialty clinics in Marin, Sonoma, and Napa Counties. We attract healthcare’s most talented trailblazers who appreciate having the best of both worlds: the pioneering medicine of an academic medical center combined with an independent hospital's personalized, caring touch. 

MarinHealth is already realizing the benefits of impressive growth and has consistently earned high praise and accolades, including being Named One of the Top 250 Hospitals Nationwide by Healthgrades, receiving a 5-star Ranking for Overall Hospital Quality from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and being named the Best Hospital in San Francisco/Marin by Bay Area Parent, among others. 

Company:

Marin General Hospital dba MarinHealth Medical Center

Compensation Range:

$51.73 - $77.60

Work Shift:

8 Hour (days) (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

24

Job Description Summary:

Provides a full range of audiological services, counseling, and (re)habilitative planning with families and other professionals.

Job Requirements, Prerequisites and Essential Functions:

Job Specifications:

Education:

• Doctor of Audiology preferred; Masters degree or equivalent acceptable.

Experience:

• 2-3 years of progressively responsible position as an audiologist in an acute care hospital or health care setting preferred.

License and Certifications:

• Licensed Speech Pathologist (SP-L) required at hire.

• Integrative Agitation Management (IAMTAC) Required within 30 days of hire.

Prerequisite Skills:

• Knowledge of all aspects of audiology, learning disabilities and non-verbal communication systems.

• Knowledge of laws governing the profession.

• Knowledge of normal human development.

• Ability to develop, research, write and present instructive information to both medical and public groups.

• Ability to attain patient rapport, to interview in an appropriate manner, obtain accurate history, counsel non-judgmentally, provide information appropriate to patient's communicative problems, observe accurately and respond to both verbal and non-verbal patient communication. Interaction with patients/parents must be devoid of emotional response or personal attitude.

Primary Customer Served (Age Specific Criteria):

• (X) Infants: Birth up to 1 year

• (X) Toddlers: 1 up to 3 years

• (X) Preschool Children: 3 up to 6 years

• (X) School Age Children: 6 up to 12 years

• (X) Adolescents: 12 up to 18 years

• (X) Early Adults: 18 up to 45 years

• (X) Middle Adults: 45 up to 61 years

• (X) Late Adults: 61 up to 80 years

• (X) Late, Late Adults: 80 years and up

Employee in this position must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skill necessary to provide care and/or service based on the physical, psych/social, educational, safety, and related criteria appropriate to the age of the patients served in his/her service group.

Patient Privacy (HIPAA Compliance):
Employees in this position have access to protected health information. The protected health information a person in this position can access includes demographics, date of service, insurance/billing, medical record summary information, and all other information that may be contained in patient records. This position requires patient health information to perform the functions outlined as part of this position description.
 

Duties And Responsibilities:

Essential (Not Modifiable)

• Provides audiological services, screening, diagnostic, (re)habilitation.

• Provides all services related to hearing aids, including, but not limited to, hearing aid evaluations, counseling patients and families regarding results of evaluations, hearing aid counseling, electroacoustic and real ear testing of hearing aids, trouble-shooting hearing aid failure, adjusting hearing aids, setting programmable instruments and the hardware/software related to them, earmold impressions and modifications of earmolds.

• Provides services to patients of all ages, from birth to extreme age, including, but not limited to, hearing screening in the Intensive Care Nursery, auditory brainstem evaluation of the pediatric population, otoacoustic emissions testing and other age-specific/functional-specific procedures.

• Consults with physicians, teachers, parents and others about results & recommendations.

• Prepares formal written reports for physicians and other referral sources.

• Responds to community requests for information related to hearing, hearing loss and services offered.

• Attends staff meetings.

• Provides information to Coordinator about unusual patient contacts.

• Exchanges information with other staff regarding mutual patients.

• Responds to convalescent, rehabilitation & acute hospitals for Out of Office visits requested.

• Provides 5 hours of billable patient contact per day.

Secondary (Modifiable)

• Provides in-service information to hospital staff, groups who have contact with communicatively impaired and groups regarding communicative disorders.

• Provides information and professional support for the hospital's implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

• Participates in department related community relations activities.

• Completes daily check of test equipment, listening devices.

• Performs Clerical/Reception duties as needed.

• Other duties as assigned.

Accommodation:

Qualified applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodation during the application process by contacting Human Resources at 415-925-7040 or [email protected].

C.A.R.E.S. Standards:

MarinHealth seeks candidates ready to model our C.A.R.E.S. standards—Communication, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, Safety—which foster a healing, trust-based environment for patients and colleagues.

Health & Immunizations:

To protect employees, patients, and our community, MarinHealth requires measles, mumps, varicella, and annual influenza immunizations as a condition of employment (and annually thereafter). COVID-19 vaccination/booster remains strongly recommended. Medical or religious exemptions will be considered consistent with applicable law.

Compensation:

The posted pay range complies with applicable law and reflects what we reasonably expect to pay for this role. Individual pay is set by skills, experience, qualifications, and internal/market equity, consistent with MarinHealth’s compensation philosophy. Positions covered by collective bargaining agreements are governed by those agreements.

Equal Employment:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status, and any other classifications protected by federal, state, and local laws.