Hearing Technician

**JOB OPENING**:

- ** Title**: Hearing Technicians**:

- ** Location: Wiesbaden Army Health Clinic, Germany**:

- ** Start Date: Immediately**:

- ** Job-Type: Part-Time On-Call (PTOC) = Substitute and replacement personnel for planned and unplanned absences at the IACS administrative office. Personnel should be available on short notice.**

**Job Overview**:
The LRMC Hearing Conservation (LRMC-HC) mission is to enhance hearing readiness and conservation by identifying and assessing current and emerging hearing threats, developing and communicating hearing health solutions, and assuring the quality and effectiveness of the Hearing Conservation Program. This shall include the support of advanced strategies for monitoring and evaluating hearing performance using booth less audiometry as an alternative to the current audio-booth based system used to evaluate hearing thresholds in the DoD’s hearing conservation program.

Hearing Conservation Technicians support the DoD Hearing Conservation Program at hearing conservation clinics and other locations on military installations. Hearing Conservation Technicians schedule patients and perform hearing tests, otoscopy, otoacoustic emissions and immittance testing, complete periodic range and base camp surveys to ensure proper use of hearing protection and noise abatement strategies, unit and group hearing protection fitting training and education, and perform hearing safety _briefings._

**Qualifications**:

- ** Education/Degree**: Associate degree
- **Certification**: Certificate of completion from an accredited program, offered thru the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC) **or** completion of a certified course by LRMC or at Camp Aachen in Grafenwoehr, Germany **within 45 days after hiring** is required. DoD Hearing Technician Certification is preferred.
- Three year-experience with U.S. Military Healthcare delivery system and benefits or civilian managed care medical/administrative environment.
- Three years of working experience in a medical office or clinical environment.
- Two year-experience with the Composite Health Care System (CHCS) and the U.S. Military Electronic Health Record (EHR) system Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA).
- Current American Red Cross or American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification.
- ** Experience**:Experience working in healthcare, education or workplace safety preferred.
- ** Knowledge and Skills**: Basic computer skills using Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.). Experience with Android-based tablet PCs and/or smartphones.
- Organized, attentive to detail, and possess a positive, friendly, and professional demeanor.
- Knowledge of medical terminology, abbreviations, techniques, and medical procedures.
- Knowledge of US Army correspondence preparation preferred.
- Able to make group presentations using PowerPoint.
- Able to search and understand Army Regulations especially those pertaining to occupational safety and health and hearing conservation.
- Possess sufficient initiative, interpersonal relationship skills, and social sensitivity to relate constructively to a variety of patients from diverse backgrounds.
- Able to obtain a US Military Motor Vehicle Operator’s Identification Card driver’s license.

**Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to)**_: _
- Schedule patients and perform hearing tests, otoscopy, immittance testing, otoacoustic emissions (OAE) testing, complete periodic range and base camp surveys to ensure proper use of hearing protection and noise abatement strategies, medical record review, unit and individual hearing protection fitting and education, and perform hearing safety briefings.
- Conduct hearing tests in single or multi-person sound booths using DOEHRS-HC.
- Use the automated system DOEHRS-HC Manager Module to maintain, compare and report hearing readiness, deployment and hearing conservation program data.
- Use booth less audiometers operated using custom software on tablet-based PCs to conduct hearing tests outside the booth and transfer data to DOEHRS-HC.
- Coordinate hearing conservation activities with Regional Hearing Program Manager, Occupational Health personnel, Unit Hearing Conservation Officers, and supervisors. Perform surveillance of local hearing conservation programs. Coordinate coverage, inspect and complete final reports for the Army Hearing Program Manager.
- Issue and fit active-duty soldiers with appropriate hearing protection.
- Coordinate the maintenance and calibration of DOEHRS-HC equipment and ensure that uploads to the DOEHRS-HC registry are backed-up daily.
- Assist units in the preparation for command inspections. Perform annual unit level educational training for soldiers. Review after-action reports for shortfalls and non-compliance with regulations especially DA PAM 40-501, Army Hearing Conservation Program.
- Ensure reporting database is being used