USAJOBS · 14 hours ago
Supervisory Audiology (Speech Pathologist)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$141K/yr - $141K/yr
3+ years expThe Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is seeking a Supervisory Audiology (Speech Pathologist) to lead the Audiology and Speech Pathology Service. The role involves managing clinical and administrative responsibilities, ensuring high-quality patient care, and supervising staff in a complex healthcare environment.
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No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Provides orientation/training of medical staff
Assists in orientation and training of new staff
Assists in the training and supervision of students, trainees, and fellows, providing feedback on progress toward established educational goals
Keeps current with theory and practice through continuing education programs, journals, textbooks, and other literature, and in-service programs
Provides patient and family education including informed consent
Develops, organizes, directs, manages, supervises, controls, and implements policies and procedures for complex service-level departments
Demonstrates skill in managing and directing work to include setting priorities and delegating tasks, meeting multiple deadlines, analyzing complex organizational problems in order to develop and implement effective solutions
Balances responsibilities applicable to a large service-level or multi-service organizational environment and to work with great autonomy
Has skill in interpersonal relationships in dealing with employees, team leaders, and managers and shows potential ability to supervise, motivate, and manage effectively a diverse clinical staff applicable to a service-level department in a large, complex, or multi-division facility
Has advanced knowledge of and ability to utilize evidence-based practices and clinical practice guidelines in multiple professional areas, and to guide the service staff in applying these tools
Has skill in problem solving and conflict resolution
Shows potential ability to and knowledge of, and ability to budgets for a large, integrated services including not only speech-language pathology but also other focused rehabilitation, ancillary, or other health care services
Has overall responsibility for planning, assessing, and evaluating programs to ensure proper coordination between care delivered by the service and the overall delivery of health care within the facility
Delegates responsibilities to subordinate section or assistant chiefs (if applicable), planning, and scheduling work; assigning work to employees; accepting, amending or rejecting completed work; assuring that production and accuracy requirements are met; appraising performance and recommending performance standards and ratings; assigning delineated clinical privileges; approving leave; and effecting all levels of disciplinary measures
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
Establishes and monitors productivity standards and production and performance priorities and accommodates to new and changing work conditions and contingencies, including staffing changes
Qualification
Required
U.S. Citizenship
Must possess a Doctor of Audiology (AUD) from an audiology program recognized by the Accreditation Commission for Audiology Education (ACAE) or Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Must hold a full, current, and unrestricted license to practice audiology at the doctoral level in a United States state, territory, commonwealth, or the District of Columbia
Audiologist candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. § 7403(f)
Must possess at least three years of experience as a professional audiologist, with at least one year comparable to the next lower grade level
Skill in promoting collaboration to accomplish goals
Skill in translating management goals and objectives into efficient service operations
Skill in balancing operational resources to ensure appropriate delivery of service operations
Ability to supervise staff
Ability to effectively interact and collaborate with local, VISN and/or national leadership
Ability to establish and monitor productivity standards, production and performance priorities to achieve management goals and objectives
Preferred
Experience as supervisory speech pathologist or audiologist
Licensed Audiologist or Speech Pathologists
Employee management experience
Prior VA experience preferred
Benefits
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