Organization:
Cochlear Implant Division
Job Summary:
JOB SUMMARY
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated cochlear implant audiologist to join our team. As a leading center for excellence in cochlear implant care, we are committed to providing evidence-based patient care and contributing to ongoing innovative research while training students at the graduate level. This is a full-time clinical position dedicated to serving patients of all ages with cochlear implants.
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Audiologist - Cochlear Implant Program
Location: Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN
Schedule: Full-Time | Monday-Friday | 8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Required: Doctor of Audiology (AuD) | ASHA CCC-A
Transform Lives Through Hearing at Vanderbilt Health
Vanderbilt Health is seeking a skilled Audiologist with cochlear implant experience to join our nationally recognized hearing and balance team. This unique opportunity allows you to work with both pediatric and adult cochlear implant patients, providing advanced diagnostic audiology, cochlear implant programming, mapping, rehabilitation, and hearing healthcare services while collaborating with leading experts across audiology, otology, speech-language pathology, and rehabilitation.
Whether you are looking to deepen your cochlear implant expertise, teach the next generation of audiologists, or practice in a highly collaborative academic medical center, Vanderbilt Health offers the resources, support, and clinical complexity to help you grow your career.
As a Cochlear Implant Audiologist, you will provide specialized hearing healthcare services across the continuum of care, including:
Perform initial device activations, cochlear implant programming, mapping, troubleshooting, and long-term cochlear implant management for Cochlear, MED-EL, and Advanced Bionics recipients
Collaborate with otologists, speech-language pathologists, educators, and multidisciplinary care teams
What Sets This Opportunity Apart
Live and Work in Nashville
Nashville offers the energy of a thriving city with the warmth of a close-knit community. Enjoy a vibrant music and arts scene, diverse neighborhoods, outstanding dining, professional sports, and easy access to outdoor recreation throughout Middle Tennessee. With no state income tax and a growing healthcare community, Nashville continues to be one of the most attractive destinations for healthcare professionals.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct cochlear implant candidacy evaluations, activations, and follow-up mappings according to clinical protocol for patients of all ages for all three FDA approved cochlear implant manufacturers
- Complete hearing aid programming for bimodal users
- Complete full diagnostic hearing assessments using appropriate test methods and equipment for patients of all ages
- Formulate and implement treatment plans to address patient needs
- Complete documentation in a concise and timely manner
- Counsel patients, families, and healthcare teams appropriately
- Engage in clinical teaching of graduate students
- Create age appropriate recommendations for educational accommodations for children and engage with IEP team as necessary
- Participate in ongoing clinical research as projects arise
- Collaborate with colleagues to foster ongoing improvement within the cochlear implant program as well as efforts to expand reach more patients with cochlear implant technology
- Maintain continuing education regarding best practices and advancements in cochlear implant technology
QUALIFICATIONS
- Doctorate in Audiology (AuD) from an accredited program
- ASHA certification (CCC-A)
- Prior experience working with cochlear implant recipients
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills that lend to working collaboratively on a team.
Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area can be defined as credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings.
These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health’s reputation for excellence in these areas that has made us a major center for patient referrals from throughout the Mid-South.
Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership in medical science and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.
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