Primary Responsibilities :
The scope of practice of audiologist is defined by the training and knowledge base of professionals who are licensed and / or credential to practice as audiologist.
Areas of practice include assessment and habilitations of individuals with auditory and vistibular disorders, prevention of hearing loss, and research in normal and disordered auditory and vistibular function.
Essential Functions :
- Audiologist indentify, evaluate, and habilitate individuals with either perpheral or central audiory impariments, and strive to prevent such impairments
- In addition, professional activites related to assessment and rehabilitation of persons with vistibular disorders are within the scope of industry.
- They devlope and oversee hearing conversation programs in industry
- Develop and overee hearing programs to detect individuals with hearing loss of all ages
Qualifications
- Clinical Doctorate in Audiology Au.D.
- Licensed to practice Audiology in Pennsylvania
- By virtue of academic degree, clinical training and licnese to practice (preferred) and / or professional credential, qualfied to provide a comprehensive arry of professional services related to the assessment and habilitation / rehabilitation of persons with auditory and vestibular impairments, and to the prevention of these impairments
Closing Statement
About Jefferson
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value.
Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients;
making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic / programmatic, clinical and applied research.
Thomas Jefferson University , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.
Jefferson Health , nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.
Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.