Hearing Instrument Practitioner
Posted on Feb 19, 2021 by Care Edmonton Inc
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Location Edmonton, AB
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Earnings $20.00 hourly
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Work Hours 35 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1 Vacancy
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Closing Date Mar 21, 2021
Employer
Care Edmonton Inc
Languages
English
Education
College/CEGEP
Experience
7 months to less than 1 year
Additional Skills
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Clean and maintain equipment
- Take earmold impressions and fit and adjust hearing instruments
- Take patients' general medical and ophthalmic history
- Document patient rehabilitation progress
Personal Suitability
- Initiative
- Client focus
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Organized
Hearing Instrument Practitioners Specific Skills
Examine adult clients to assess hearing loss, recommend type of hearing instrument, take earmold impressions and perform follow-up examinations and readjustments
How to Apply
Anyone who can legally work in Canada can apply for this job. If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada, the employer will not consider your job application.
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Interest in analyzing data to fit and adjust hearing aids
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Interest in speaking with patients to ensure comfort and fit of hearing aids during follow-up examinations and readjustments
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Interest in operating equipment to take ear impressions for use in the manufacture of audio prostheses; may test patients' hearing
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.
- METHODICAL
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Interest in compiling and recording test results
- SOCIAL
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Interest in speaking with patients to instruct them in testing and examination procedures
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Interest in operating audiometers to administer hearing tests; and in fitting earphones and bone conductors on patients
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.
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Interest in compiling information on patients' progress
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Interest in assisting patients in remedial programs by instructing them on ways to improve communication skills
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Interest in handling equipment and materials used for remedial programs
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.
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Interest in compiling information to make preliminary assessments of patients' vision, and to record patients' test results, treatments and case histories
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Interest in assisting ophthalmologists with examinations, treatments and office surgery; and in instructing patients in insertion, removal, cleaning and storage of contact lenses
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Interest in operating ophthalmic testing and measuring instruments and equipment to administer eye drops, ointments and medications as directed by ophthalmologists
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.
- METHODICAL
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Interest in compiling information on treatments to maintain patients' records
- SOCIAL
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Interest in assisting patients by providing therapeutic treatments and fitting them with crutches, splints and other devices
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Interest in operating equipment to carry out treatment programs as directed by physiotherapists
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.
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Interest in copying information to assist patients as directed by health care professionals
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Interest in assisting patients by helping elderly and incapacitated patients to dress and undress, by accompanying patients to treatment rooms and by supporting them in other activities
- objective
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Interest in handling to prepare and maintain work materials and supplies; and in assisting patients in the use of therapeutic equipment
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.