audiology technician
ISCO: 3214. Skills: 31. Essential: 11.
Essential skills
- advise customers on hearing aids
- health, safety and hygiene legislation
- hygiene in a health care setting
- maintain laboratory equipment
- maintain records of clients' prescriptions
- order supplies for audiology services
- perform technical tasks with great care
- produce impressions for ear moulds
- repair hearing aids
- types of audiological equipment
- use of specialised instruments in otorhinolaryngology
Supporting skills
- acoustics
- adapt hearing tests
- adjust hearing aids
- assist audiologists with screening
- communication related to hearing impairment
- comply with legislation related to health care
- contribute to continuity of health care
- empathise with the healthcare user
- geriatrics
- hearing aids
- hearing loss
- human ear
- interpret diagnostic tests in otorhinolaryngology
- listen actively
- physiology of hearing
- prepare audiologist patients for assessments
- recommend hearing aids
- refer healthcare users
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use special hearing equipment for tests