Summary
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC) is hiring a Senior Audiologist in Abu Dhabi. The role coordinates clinical and administrative activities in the audiology section, supervises junior staff, manages workload, and maintains service statistics. Clinical duties include assessing cochlear implant candidacy, performing implant mapping and specialized hearing tests, and counseling and referring patients. Applicants need a relevant bachelor's degree, a current national license, at least four years of hospital experience in audiology or speech and hearing sciences, and at least one year of demonstrated leadership.
The posting
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Responsible for coordinating all the administrative and clinical activities of the audiology section, and effective and professional management of financial resources, staff, and workflow of Audiology Allied Health.
Responsibilities
Managerial
• Supervises junior staff as per clinical, administrative, and related professional policies as applied and implemented in the Section/Department/Facility.
• Coordinates assigned clinical activities such as neonatal hearing screening program by assigning roles to the Audiologist and Audiology Assistant.
• Participates in the daily management of workload allocation within the specialist area, taking into account the changing/competing demands and making decisions about prioritization of caseloads.
• Maintains the monthly and yearly statistics of audiology care.
Clinical
• Determines the candidacy for a cochlear implant and to do mapping for the cochlear implant (technical duty for both audiologist and senior audiologist).
• Makes necessary recommendations and referrals for patients and providing appropriate counseling to the patients and their families.
• Performs routine and specialized tests to include pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry, impedance audiometry and related electro-physiological assessments for auditory and vestibular.
Quality & Safety
• Promotes and maintains quality in all services and ensures continuous quality
improvement measures are in place. Conducts method evaluation/development as per standard policies and procedures.
• Ensures compliance with all safety and quality control programs and procedures as applicable.
• Ensures compliance with applicable precautions for environmental safety, infection
control, using a series of interventions that minimize or prevent cross infection.
• Assists in the planning and developing policies that guide the service implementation process.
• Assists in the development of clinical audit processes within the service and reports on them to the line manager/department head.
Staff Professional Development
• Delivers and participates in training and education sessions for department staff, doctors,
and nurses in the safe and secure handling of drugs and equipment, prescribing
(whenever applicable), administration and treatment and management i.e. tLeaching,
induction, peer review, case studies, and clinical presentations.
• Participates in the orientation and training of new employees.
• Ensures all members of the department receive adequate clinical supervision as required for their professional and technical development.
Accountabilities
• Ensures all documents and all interventions are in the appropriate format
• Ensures patient receives the highest standard nutrition services and care and quality
healthcare.
Qualifications
Required:
BSc in Speech & Hearing, or Audiology or Hearing & Speech Sciences.
AND Current National License
Desired:
MSc. in Speech & Hearing, or Speech Language Pathology, Speech Sciences or
Communications Disorders/Sciences (will reduce 1 year from the required years of experience)
Specialist Certifications:
Required:
N.A.
Desired:
N.A.
Experience:
Required:
NLT 4 years of experience in field of Speech and Hearing Sciences or in Audiology in a hospital
setting.
NLT 1 year demonstrated leadership
Desired:
N.A.