QUALIFICATION

• EDUCATION: Minimum of a Master’s Degree in Audiology.
• LICENSURE:
  • Audiology license issued by Iowa Department of Public Health and Iowa Board of Education Examiner Statement of Professional R..or...
  • Board of Educational Examiners Professional Services License
• EXPERIENCE: Previous experience with children, families, and school districts is desired.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: 

• Participate as a member of the multidisciplinary professional team for the purpose of meeting the hearing needs of children and students ages birth-21 using a multi-tiered system of supports
• Supervision, collaboration, and participation in the school hearing conservation program
• Comprehensive audiological Assessments
• Making appropriate referrals to school personnel, physicians, professional colleagues, and others as needed
• Identify candidacy for hearing aids and/or assistive listening devices, fit, maintain and troubleshoot devices to support students in their education environments
• Participates in the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) and 504 Documentation to develop educational recommendations, including communication/education accommodations and assistance with transition planning using data-based decision making at the systems levels and for individual students
• Participates in the Individualized Family Services Plan (IFSP) to develop family goals and priorities to support communication and social interaction with infants and toddlers’ birth to 3 years of age using data-based decision making at the systems levels and for individual students
• Provides counseling to parents, school personnel, and students regarding audiologic findings, hearing loss impact, and amplification benefit
• Provide consultation in regards to the selection, purchase, installation, maintenance, calibration checking and utilization of audiologic equipment
• Provide training about hearing, hearing loss, and other auditory disorders for school personnel, students, and parents to facilitate a better understanding of the impact of auditory impairments on language, learning, literacy, and social development
• Participate in training, support and assigned duties for audiometrists

COMMON TO ALL EMPLOYEES:  

• Contributes to a positive and productive work, learning and team environment
• Believes in, advocates for, understands, supports and delivers the priority work of the AEAs, Iowa Public and Accredited Schools, the Iowa Department of Education and Prairie Lakes AEA
• Focuses upon agency and team efforts to deliver equitable, efficient and effective educational services that prepare Iowa children for a life well-lived
• Anticipates and responds to needs, requirements and expectations of clients resulting in acceleration, inspiration and innovation
• Demonstrates effective verbal, non-verbal, written, listening and visual communication
• Possesses effective interpersonal, collaboration, facilitation skills and is committed to relationships and partnerships, within and outside of the agency
• Exhibits self-motivation, reliability, organization, detail and quality and engages in continuous improvement of professional practice to build skills needed to perform job duties and meet agency goals and expectations
• Manages time effectively so that timelines are met and improved results are evident in learning, professional capacity and system effectiveness
• Problem solves by utilizing data-based decisions, preventing and resolving conflicts and providing comprehensive, high quality solutions
• Works with integrity and maintains confidentiality
• Models and integrates technology into daily work
• Leads professional development for at least one course, internally, externally or both
• Understands other duties and responsibilities may be assigned, according to current needs of the agency or districts served

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: 

• Ability to travel between schools and sites served.
• Normal, routine levels of activity related to bending, carrying, climbing, hearing, lifting, reaching, sitting, standing, vision and walking, and may also involve above-average levels of activity at times that can’t always be anticipated.