Job Title: Doctor of Audiology
Reports To: Owner
Job Status: Full Time

Although your education and experience play a key role in this process, your personality traits and attitude are key priorities. If this is how your co-workers and friends would describe you, then we may be the ideal match:

• Always happy, smiles a lot, positive attitude, always a pleasure to be around.
• Friendly, warm, caring, a people person – which comes across the very first time you meet someone, even on the telephone.
• Patient, compassionate, helpful especially with older people. Even temperament, calm, always pleasant, unflappable. Has a knack for being able to turn a frown into a smile.
• Committed, dedicated, a great teammate, pitches in without being asked, puts team accomplishments ahead of individual accomplishments.
• Accurate, detailed, wants to get things right, double checks their own work, makes very few mistakes. Owns it – accepts responsibility, credits others for successes and accepts responsibility for failures. Always looking for a constructive way to solve a problem.
• Coachable, accepts feedback with a positive attitude. Always looking for ways to grow and improve.
• Reliable, dependable, doesn’t just arrive on time: often comes in a little early to make sure they’re prepared for the day; willing to stay late when there’s work that needs to be done or a patient needs us.

These statements also describe the people you’ll be working alongside, meaning that you’ll quickly discover this is much more than a group of co-workers—it feels like “your kind of people.”

As an Audiologist, you will be playing a key role in helping our patients achieve a lifetime of better hearing while ensuring the highest standards of care that our reputation has been built upon.
Your job will be to ensure that every patient feels like our only patient.

Duties include

• Connecting Through Assessments: Initiate a bond by understanding each patient’s unique hearing journey. Comprehensive assessments give insights into their personal experiences, needs, and aspirations.
• Sound Sculpting: Employ a range of audiometric tests tailored to each individual. It’s about crafting a personal sound experience, enabling them to revel in every auditory detail of their surroundings.
• Tinnitus Management & Lenire: Provide thorough tinnitus assessment, counseling, and management strategies. As one of the few clinics in the region utilizing Lenire neuromodulation therapy, you will be on the leading edge of tinnitus care, helping patients find relief and regain quality of life. Training and coaching will be provided for this specialty.
• Navigating Choices Together: Be the guiding hand when it comes to treatment (i.e., hearing aids, ALDs, aural rehabilitation, etc.). With so many choices out there, your expertise ensures every patient gets the tailored care they need and deserve.
• Ongoing Support: Build trust and demonstrate you care by being available for check-ups, reprogramming, or even a chat. Whether it’s a tune-up for their device or easing their concerns, you’re their go-to person.
• Heartfelt Counseling: This journey has its ups and downs. Go beyond the ‘tech’ talk. We don’t ‘sell hearing aids,’ we provide the highest level of hearing healthcare. Offer a listening ear, provide support, and address emotional concerns linked to hearing challenges.
• Embracing Continuous Learning: As the audiology landscape evolves, immerse yourself in the latest advancements. Then share that knowledge, bringing optimism and hope to those you care for.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is honorable, caring, intelligent, enthusiastic, outgoing, and team oriented. You should be ready to perform medically relevant diagnostics, including audiometry and immittance, as well as treatment-focused testing such as speech-in-noise testing (QuickSIN) and loudness discomfort levels. You are passionate about working with state-of-the-art amplification/assistive technology, improving lives with your care, counseling, and technological solutions. You will be expected to improve proficiency with hearing aid dispensing and ongoing hearing aid management with probe microphone measurements.

Skills expected to have mastered

Diagnostics

• Comprehensive Hearing Assessment (Pure tone air/bone conduction audiometry, word recognition testing in quiet & noise)
• Immittance testing – tympanometry, acoustic reflexes, reflex decay

Dispensing

• Hearing Aid Sales and Counseling
• Probe Microphone/Real Ear Measurements
• Counsel/Instruct Patients in Aural Rehabilitation Skills/Techniques

Compensation & Benefits

• Starting Salary: $85,000 annually (with potential for growth based on performance and experience).
• Bonuses: Opportunity for productivity-based bonuses to reward excellent patient care and clinic growth.
• Health Benefits: Medical insurance provided, including dental and vision coverage.
• Retirement: A 401(k) or retirement plan
• Paid Time Off: 2 weeks of paid vacation and sick time annually (Washington State sick leave requirements will also apply).
• Holidays Off: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and a half-day on Christmas Eve.