Audiologist

Role Overview

Audiologist at American Hospital Dubai, providing diagnostic and therapeutic services to assess and treat hearing, balance, and communication disorders across all age groups from neonates to geriatric patients.

Role Purpose

Deliver comprehensive audiological care by diagnosing and treating hearing and balance disorders, fitting and maintaining amplification devices, supporting implant teams, and conducting intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring to improve patient outcomes across the lifespan.

Key Responsibilities

Diagnostic Assessment

• Define patient hearing impairment and balance disorder by conferring with referring physician.
• Select and administer electrophysiological and other relevant tests.
• Operate diagnostic equipment.
• Determine type and degree of hearing impairment and effects on comprehension and speech.
• Interpret audiometric diagnostic data.
• Prepare written diagnostic reports.

Amplification & Device Management

• Provide evaluation, fitting, and verification of amplification devices, including assistive listening devices.
• Determine appropriateness of amplification systems for persons with hearing impairment.
• Evaluate benefits and provide counselling and training regarding device use.

Implant Team Support

• Act as a member of the implant team for cochlear implants, middle ear implantable hearing aids, fully implantable hearing aids, bone anchored hearing aids, and all other amplification and signal processing devices.
• Determine audiologic candidacy based on hearing and communication information.
• Provide pre and post-surgical assessment, counselling, and all aspects of audiologic treatment.
• Deliver auditory training and rehabilitation.
• Conduct implant programming and maintenance of implant hardware and software.

Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring

• Monitor intraoperative neurophysiologic function.
• Administer and interpret electrophysiologic measurements of neural function including sensory and motor evoked potentials, nerve conduction velocity tests, and electromyography.
• Apply these measurements in differential diagnosis, pre- and postoperative evaluation of neural function, and neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring of central nervous system, spinal cord, and cranial nerve function.

Hearing Protection & Prevention

• Provide auditory evaluations and education by measuring and studying noise conditions.
• Conduct hearing protection and hearing loss screening programs.

Records & Compliance

• Maintain patient records by recording and updating evaluations, changes, progress, and treatments.
• Maintain legal and accreditation compliance by adhering to federal, state, and local regulations and professional standards.

Quality & Continuous Improvement

• Improve quality results by studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes.
• Implement changes and participate in research programs.
• Evaluate new equipment, devices, and techniques.

Inventory & Supply Management

• Maintain supplies inventory by checking stock, anticipating needs, placing and expediting orders, and verifying receipt.

Professional Development

• Update job knowledge by tracking trends in new techniques and approaches.
• Participate in educational opportunities and read professional publications.
• Maintain personal networks and participate in professional organizations.

Organizational Support

• Accomplish organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests.
• Explore opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Audiology, Speech and Hearing, or Direct Entry Master's Degree in Audiology.
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience as Audiologist.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of computer applications such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).