Job Description
Job DescriptionDescription:
CareLink is a non-profit, mission-based 501c3 organization that was founded in 1997 by non-profit post-acute and community-based organizations specializing in the care of older adults and adults with disabilities. These organizations include long-term care, housing, hospice, home care, assisted living and adult-day health. In addition, CareLink is a direct provider of a range of health and wellness services including rehabilitation (PT/OT/SLP), mobile dental, audiology, podiatry, psychiatry, brain health and wellness services. We keep individuals doing the things that they want to do, independently, in the place they call home.
This is a part-time role with flexible days and hours seeing patients both in our office in East Providence and on-site at community locations across the state of RI.
Duties include completing hearing exams, fitting, adjusting and maintaining patients’ hearing aids and providing treatment for balance disorders.
Essential Functions
- Provides rehabilitative audiological services. Administers and interprets audiological tests, develops a treatment plan, and establishes goals for each patient. Monitors progress of recommendations and treatment plans and reassesses as appropriate.
- Calibrates equipment, prepares related reports, and maintains the audiological suite, materials, and supplies.
- Communicates with patient and family and provides counseling when appropriate.
- Provides case management services and makes client referrals to other social or health service agencies.
- Logs procedures and submits charges to the department secretary for submission to the billing department.
- Writes evaluation reports and daily progress notes on a timely basis.
- Maintains state-of-the-art knowledge in field of audiology. Prepares and presents in-service education to staff and the community.
- Assists in implementing and monitoring the departments quality assurance program.
- Assists in supervising student interns.
Requirements:
Qualifications – Required
- Masters degree or equivalent in audiology.
- Current license or eligibility for licensing as an audiologist.
- Certified or certification eligible by the American Speech and Hearing Association.
- Ability to communicate with patients about sensitive topics
- Ability to work with other medical professionals as needed to diagnose and treat patients
- Compassion
- Patience
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to apply medical knowledge to patient cases to treat and diagnose each case
Physical Demand/Work Environment
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.