Audiologist

Work Location: San Francisco, California

Job Type: Full-time/part-time contractor (3-month contract, potentially extendable)

Hourly Rate: $40 - $60

Our Company:

Founded in 2010, iHealth Labs is dedicated to empowering people to live healthier lives. The company is a leading provider of cloud-connected medical devices, personal health care devices, and home-based tests and is at the forefront of the digital health revolution.

In 2018, iHealth launched its Unified Care program to address the issue of managing chronic diseases. Unified Care specialists support patients at home between doctor’s appointments with remote patient monitoring (RPM) and chronic care management (CCM) to achieve better health outcomes.

In November 2021, iHealth's COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for over-the-counter sales. Since then, iHealth has become a key supplier of at-home COVID tests to the federal government, state governments, nonprofits, and individual consumers.

iHealth Labs is a leader in digital health solutions, with a mission to revolutionize the healthcare industry by making quality health management accessible and affordable for all.

• Provides diagnostic evaluation of hearing, prevention, habilitation and rehabilitation services for auditory problems and research relating to hearing and attendant disorders.

• Provide comprehensive hearing diagnostic evaluation, including pure tone air/bone thresholds, speech reception threshold, word recognition, middle ear analysis (tympanometry, volume, acoustic reflexes), with site of lesion determination. Interpret results. Assess patient lifestyle. Counsel patient regarding evaluation results, including recommended follow-up and treatment plan.

• Conduct audiological evaluations including pure tone air and bone conduction measures; speech reception and word recognition testing; immitance measures; otoscopy; electrophysiological tests and differential determination of auditory disorders using procedures that are free of cultural bias and are appropriate to the student's receptive and expressive native language skills, cognitive abilities and behavioral functioning.

• Physically and otoscopically examines the outer structures of the ear.

• Procedures may include appropriate ear cleaning evaluation, fitting and dispensing of hearing aids; and electrophysiologic evaluation of the vestibular and auditory mechanisms, in addition to electroacoustic measures of the peripheral and central auditory systems.

• Provides reports and coordinates audiological results with other diagnostic data such as educational, medical, social and behavioral information.

• Rehabilitation: Counsel patient on hearing loss, hearing aids, and listening strategies, selection of appropriate assistive listening and amplification devices, and realistic expectations. Custom fit and program hearing aids, troubleshoot hearing aid problems, provide in office hearing aid maintenance and repair, perform electroacoustic analysis and Rear Ear measurement to ensure patient benefit. Provide counseling to patient and family related to tinnitus, hearing conservation, and communication strategies. Demonstrate understanding of physiologic and psychological effects of hearing loss on populations of all ages.

• Provide written and/or verbal interpretation of audiological assessment results, functional implications, and management recommendations.

• Evaluate the need for, selection of, and functioning of hearing aids, individual and/or amplification systems, other hearing assistive technology.

• Doctoral degree with a major in Audiology.

• Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC-A) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

• California license to practice Audiology.

• One year of professional full-time work experience (including traineeship), preferably in a hospital or medical private office setting.

• Experience with diagnostic audiologic testing of patients of all ages.