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Health Technician (Audiology)-CAOHC
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 46 days ago
Hybrid Viera, FL $56K – $73K Apply by Aug 7, 2026 Health Aid And Technician ISFJISFPISTJ HealthcareTrades
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This position is located in the Audiology & Speech Pathology Service at Orlando VA Healthcare System. The duties and responsibilities to be carried out in all clinical and other patient care areas involved with the Audiology service. The health technician supports the function of the clinical programs in Audiology. The incumbent is a staff health technician (Audiology float) under the supervision of a Senior Audiologist.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Triaging patients to an audiologist based on complexity of the procedures being completed.
- →Patient set up for procedures (e.g. vestibular, neurodiagnostic procedures).
- →Patient instruction and counseling on hearing loss, hearing protection, or hearing aids either on an individual basis or in a group setting.
- →Conducting hearing Puretone air-conduction testing without interpretation for the purpose of hearing conservation and for established patients in regular VA clinic.
- →Immittance screening without interpretation.
- →Non-diagnostic otoscopy, taking earmold impressions, hearing aid troubleshooting and repair.
- →Providing basic haring aid information for patients and caregivers, performing listening checks on hearing aids, electroacoustic analysis of devices.
- →Pairing hearing aids and accessories via Bluetooth technology, programming previously stored settings into hearing aids, completing adjustments to hearing aid settings as outlined specifically in the audiologist's plan of care.
- →Activating remote controls.
- →Training of employees and patients on personal hearing protection devices.
- →Prepare the equipment for patient evaluations (both face to face and virtual care/telehealth for any audiology appointments or procedures.
- →Set up and deliver a wide variety of face-to-face and telehealth/virtual visits (including synchronous and asynchronous).
- →Ensuring timely and accurate documentation of all interactions in the medical records and that all encounters are correctly documented using electronic medical record and computerized tracking and ordering functions via ROES.
- →Responsible for the direct training, management and supervision of medical center volunteers within the Audiology section as needed, any audiologist assistant receiving practical experience from an affiliated university, and any other health technicians or any audiology students as directed by their supervisor.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
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Job ID: 167c6ccc-d694-4000-a468-4fe24ba6a0fd
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