Hello From Empire Audiology!

Looking for an opportunity as a candidate might be just as exciting as it is for a clinic that is excited to grow and find the right match in a new provider! We are Empire Audiology and we are eager to find a like-minded professional who has a heart for both rural areas and a variety of audiology services to help us manage all that is going on and expand to greater things! The best question is what are YOU looking to find?! Searching for a place to land with your career choice is extremely exciting and as an audiologist in 2025, the ball is really in your court!

About The Clinic:

Empire Audiology is Hartsville, South Carolina's only private audiology practice and we enjoy a varied and engaged practice in our lively small town. We are growing at a respectable pace and the next step is adding a second provider, hopefully you! Check out our homemade website here: www.empireaudiology.com

What Are YOU Looking For?

What sounds ideal to you? Part-time, full-time, or just flexibility if life serves up great opportunities you don't want to miss? Autonomy but with some collaboration and support? Freedom to work on what's most interesting or exciting to you? We are eager to expand our services for the community to include more pediatric care, cochlear implant mapping, enhanced aural rehabilitation, skilled tinnitus management and vestibular services. So if you are interested in exploring any of these areas in Audiology and would like to help our practice expand services, this is the practice for you to bring your passions to!

What Your Days Could be Filled With:

· Providing diagnostic audiological evaluations for ages newborn and up for a variety of populations

· Developing treatment plans and recommendations and communicating these to patients/families

· Hearing aid evaluations, fittings, follow ups, and troubleshooting (test box available!) with a variety of hearing aid manufacturers

· VNGs, Sleep ABR, School District consulting, Local business networking

· Staying up to date on changes in the field of audiology, attending trainings, engaging in local advocacy/state academy efforts

· Maintaining clinical records and reports congruent with clinic protocols and standards, including HIPAA

What is Necessary:

· Au.D. preferred, Master’s Degree in Audiology acceptable

· South Carolina license or ability to acquire

What Would Be Amazing:

· Excellent interpersonal/communication skills

· Strong organizational skills with a flexible attitude

· The ability to prioritize and handle a full schedule of patients

· The ability to work and contribute to a team environment

· The ability to maintain a positive and professional attitude and uphold our motto: “Truth, Listen, Honor, Serve”

· Strong compassion, care, and respect for patients

· Patience to work through growing pains of a small practice

· A desire to succeed and keep learning and find what keep you motivated

· When you reach out make sure to mention the best gift you’ve ever received so we know

you read all the way through!!

What We Can Offer:

· As far as salary...as much as we can reasonably get in your pockets! Dependent on preferred schedule/involvement with different aspects of private practice, or whether certain benefits are desired! Full-time, new grad, would be no less than $72k with at least an $8k customizable bonus package!

· The customizable bonus package could include things like Healthcare or healthcare stipend, Relocation Assistance, or extra Paid time off

· Other automatic items include Paid Holidays, CEU/Licensing Assistance, and Flexibility and autonomy

Finally... A Special Note from the Owner:

We are currently a single provider office (me!), and I would sure love to find someone to share the schedule with or help build the clinic to a full-time status. That could look like you taking on patients part/full-time while I keep up with practice management or it could mean you working one day a week with patients, complimenting the days I devote. If practice management is something that interests you, we could divvy up all those responsibilities too! I have a young family and like to keep them a top priority. My hope is that every person who joins Empire can also do the same based on their personal needs and preferences, even support staff! Speaking of which, we have an audiology assistant, Ashley, who is wonderful and a solid front desk facilitator in Sydney!

It has been an amazing few years since opening in 2020 and I’m loving it! We expanded to a bigger space in 2023 (it’s so beautiful!) and I think our schedule could easily be full time. Currently we stay booked for several weeks even with our part time schedule. I would love to be as comprehensive as possible for our community as I am currently the only audiologist in the area! So, I am eager to build out better programs for pediatric services, vestibular services, tinnitus management, cochlear implants, more aural rehab, etc…That means whatever passions and knowledge you bring with you will be gladly received! I am not looking for someone to work for me or do what I say; I am looking for someone who loves to think and create, learn and apply, and will help guide our growth to make it something we all continue to love! So just to be redundant, my ideal candidate would be someone interested in some of those specialty services and bringing some energy in those spaces to advance us! Specifically vestibular, pediatrics (diagnostics and hearing aids), potential CI services, and handling a neighboring school district we now take care of. Of course, someone looking to slow down their lifestyle and just work 1-2 days/week is an option too, whether you want to grow your family or ease into retirement! Whatever your preferred services, we could make it work!

We have a room for vestibular services and have VNG/caloric equipment. We also have fairly new ABR equipment, OAEs, Tymps/Reflexes, High-Frequency Audiometry, REM/Live Speech Mapping, Test Box, Redux, the Earigator, etc…! Our slogan is “Rural, but Royal!” Any equipment preferences or desires you would have, we will put on our wishlist and work to make it happen!

I’m so proud of the progress we’ve made so far and thankful to our community for responding. We have several community focused efforts beyond our clinic services such as a children’s clothing trade closet, free monthly giveaways related (sometimes loosely) to ears and hearing, and a community space we used for weekly crafting time with kids and seniors at one point. We’ve even used our community space for a diabetes and hearing loss lunch event with a health coach. Our pediatric visitors leave with a little lion stuffie and stickers! We are definitely unconventional! Hopefully you can pick up just from this ad that I’m not your typical “boss!” And I don’t want to be! I put in my time and effort anywhere it’s needed and I’m very personable in pretty much everything! I also know that my brain is only capable of so much and there are fantastic ideas that others contribute. I don’t know even close to everything, but I love to keep learning more and doing better care.

Back to you…we get this won’t sound enticing to everyone, and that’s okay! We aren’t a hospital, a chain, an ENT, or a large corporation. Just a small private practice existing to advance audiology care for the benefit of our community. So, if it sounds like what you’re interested in, I sure would love to talk about it more! You can email me or give me a call at empireaud@gmail.com or 843.624.347! Can’t wait to learn all about you!

Blessings,

Dr. Rachel Worley

(P.S. Oh, I forgot to tell you about Hartsville! I’ve been here almost 10 years and loved it right from the start. We’ve got a small university, a governor’s residential school for top math and science high schoolers, a fun waterpark and splashpad, a hike-able “garden” in the heart of town next to a kayak-welcoming creek, a live theater, several restaurants, beautiful parks, two lakes, a darling downtown and that great hometown community feel! Even won an All America City Award a few years back! Cost of living is reasonable and your big city attractions (Columbia, Charlotte, Myrtle Beach, Charleston) are only about 1.5-2.5 hours away, any direction!)