Audiologist, AuD

Audiology Research Associates, a highly regarded audiology practice in Southwestern Washington and Northern Idaho, is a 40 year private-owned clinic focused on audiology services. Our team is looking for a long term, full-time audiologist to join us in this wonderful region. While dispensing is very much part of our offering, we feel it is our focus and dedication to audiology services that makes us a preferred care partner with patients, physicians and employees alike. Candidates would be expected to be dependable, hard working, and must be comfortable with interpersonal communication with patients, families, and the team. Candidates are particularly expected to be proficient in hearing evaluation and hearing aid treatment. Vestibular evaluation and cerumen removal skills are preferred.

The Couer d'Alene is located in the panhandle of Idaho and is a place where natural beauty and recreation define everyday life. Nestled among sparkling lakes, pine-covered mountains, and scenic trails, it’s perfect for anyone who loves the outdoors. Residents enjoy boating, kayaking, hiking, biking, skiing, and golfing — all within minutes of home. Each season brings new ways to explore, from summer lake days to winter ski trips. Beyond its recreation, Coeur d’Alene offers a vibrant downtown filled with local restaurants, craft breweries, and friendly community events. Wildlife is abundant, the pace is relaxed, and the views are unforgettable. With its balance of small-town charm, year-round adventure, and easy access to nearby cities like Spokane and Seattle, Coeur d’Alene isn’t just a beautiful place to visit — it’s a place to belong.

The Audiologist role has four primary functions; evaluating and diagnosing, coordinating and providing care, education and counseling, as well as dispensing hearing aids that align patient needs with business directives. Within these functions, duties, and responsibilities the Audiologist builds lasting relationships of trust with our patients as they project the same outlook on care that our practice has embodied for over 40 years; accessible, compassionate, and honest care - every time for everyone.

Evaluating & Diagnosing:

• Audiometric, including speech in noise testing and visual reinforcement audiometry
• Otoacoustic emissions

Coordinating & Providing Care:

• Report writing, with recommendations for the referring physician as appropriate
• Timely maintenance of patient records by recording and updating evaluations, changes, progress, and treatments in EHR
• Improve quality results by studying and evaluating processes; investigating research programs; evaluating new equipment, devices, and techniques

Education & Counseling:

• Compassionate interpersonal communication and tactful bedside manner when discussing evaluation and treatment recommendations
• Willingness to coordinate and collaborate with the patient, their referring physician, and those they have elected, to support them as they adapt to changes in their health
• Ability to inform and explain the complexity of patient conditions adapted to their comfort level

Dispensing Hearing Aids:

• Provides hearing aid dispensing, including selection, fitting, ear-mold acoustics, and ongoing management with follow-up and education
• Performs hearing aid repairs

Requirements:

• Au.D or Master’s Degree in Audiology
• Eligible for Idaho & Washington State License in Audiology

Preferred Experience (Not Required):

• Vestibular evaluation
• Cerumen removal

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills that promote effective working relationships with patients, colleagues, referring professionals, and the community. This includes listening, sales, and problem-solving skills, communicated in a genuinely caring and respectful manner
• Ability to operate appropriate audiology equipment to perform diagnostic audiology procedures
• Staying adverse in the advancements with software and of amplification devices/accessories and assistive listening devices
• Proficient in using EHR
• Superb communications skills and tact, both verbal and written, for internal, external, and patient communications
• Must have the ability to remain calm and exhibit tact in stressful and/or delicate situations
• Must have the ability to handle confidential topics and issues without compromise
• Must be able to travel to other office locations or outside the state for professional and team development training as required by the practice

Physical Job Requirements:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by a teammate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work
• Light to moderate lifting may be required
• Regular, predictable attendance is required; including quarter-driven hours as business demands dictate
• Moderate noise (i.e., business office with computers, phone, and printers, light traffic)
• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period.

We offer:

• Annual Salary: $90,000
• Bonus Eligibility
• Unique proximity to all the Pacific Northwest has to offer
• Student Loan Payoff Assistance
• Paid Holiday
• Sick Leave
• 8 AM to 5 PM Weekday Schedule

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Relocation assistance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Salary : $90,000