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Supervisory Audiologist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 60 days ago
On-site Tucson, AZ $128K – $167K Apply by Jul 20, 2026 Speech Pathology And Audiology ISFJ Healthcare
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This position is in the Audiology Service at Tucson VAMC in Tucson, Arizona. The duties and responsibilities are carried out throughout all clinical and other patient care areas involved with the Audiology service. This position serves as a Service Chief of Audiology. The service or organizational entity is a major component of the medical center and the services or programs supervised are highly professional, technical, and complex.
What You'll Do
- →Autonomously manages substantive parts of specialized, complex, professional services that significantly impact Veterans' care; provides leadership with objective, independent assessments and recommendations for policy, operational and administrative issues and initiatives requiring decision and action.
- →Monitors work performance to ensure that requirements are satisfied; interprets and processes a wide variety of data related to program planning and specialized needs of the Veterans, the service, and the medical center; and ensures policies or issues have been fully coordinated, vetted, and staffed.
- →Advises executive leadership on implications, key issues, and relationships to interest groups (both internal and external) and recommends courses of action; coordinates and negotiates resolutions to complex problems.
- →Assures compliance with accrediting agencies and regulatory requirements and corrective action is initiated as needed.
- →Responsible for professional and administrative management of an assigned area, including budget execution.
- →Maintains interdepartmental relationships with other services to accomplish medical center goals.
- →May prepare special reports and responses, Congressional responses, briefing papers, issue briefs and decision papers for the medical center leadership, which may be highly sensitive, confidential and of a complex nature.
- →Develop policies and procedures and may develop performance standards, position descriptions and functional statements.
- →Monitors the clinical performance of staff, conduct performance appraisals, and perform other clinical and administrative responsibilities to ensure that the mission of the service and the medical center have been satisfied.
- →May set training objectives for staff and delegate responsibilities to subordinate sections.
- →Promotes collaboration to accomplish goals: Exercises supervision, administrative management, and direction of both professional areas in a unified audiology and speech-language pathology service or equivalent service-level department, or administrative management and program direction of other rehabilitation-related areas.
- →Manages and directs the work of others to accomplish program goals and missions.
- →Supervises, motivates, and effectively manages a diverse clinical staff applicable to a service level department in a large, complex, or multi-division facility.
- →Translates management goals and objectives into efficient service operations: Organizes work, sets priorities, delegates tasks and responsibilities.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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