As a Senior Audiologist, you will provide care, therapy, and education to individuals, their families, teachers, and/or facilitators to support healthy hearing and communication competency in collaboration with various allied professionals. This involves working in areas such as hearing, auditory function, balance, and related systems through prevention, identification, assessment, and rehabilitation.
You will serve the needs of individuals from the different sectors within the Canossian Village and the wider community. You will work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to provide quality care and contributes to the Village’s efforts in providing an enhanced service delivery through the Canossian Circle of Care. You are an expert in your area of specialty, providing professional development for others, including training, coaching, and consulting with relevant stakeholders. You will also contributes to the development and review of processes and resources, and participates in research and evaluation as needed. You will performs clinical supervision of interns and other audiologists as required. Additionally, you will be involved in managing service quality and performs department administration and operational tasks.
You should be resourceful, proactive, and possess strong collaboration, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
Casework - Assessment and Intervention Planning
- Conduct assessment to determine child's listening abilities and speech perception
- Assess classroom acoustics and make recommendations for modifications or improvements
- Evaluate and manage technology with the goal of ensuring that pupils can use listening to learn
- Provide recommendations based on evaluation of child’s needs
- Evaluate and manage technology with the goal of ensuring that pupils can use listening to learn
- Provide guidance to supervisees on utilising evidence-based practices for assessment, case formulation and intervention planning.
Casework - Delivery of Intervention
- Fit, validate, manage, and monitor hearing devices through daily hearing checks of students
- Assist with troubleshooting of hearing devices when called upon to assist
- Evaluate progress and outcomes using selected outcome measures regularly
- Modify plans based on child's performance and motivation as well as outcome measures collected
- Provide auditory evaluation and education by measuring and studying noise conditions in the school
- Review audiological evaluations and facilitate communications with other audiologists from other institutions
- Provide secondment/ itinerant services to other schools or centres (including all sectors within the village) via provision of direct audiological services, professional development to staff, caregiver training, psychoeducation of typical and atypical students on knowledge related to hearing loss
Education and Experience
- Masters in Audiology
- Registered with Society for Audiology Professionals Singapore (SAPS)
- Minimum 5 years of experience as an Audiologist
- Understanding and knowledge of service provision for children with hearing loss and their families
- Prior experience working in a school setting
