What are the responsibilities and job description for the Prosthetist 3 position at JoCo?
Job Description
What is the position?
The Prosthetist is responsible for collaborating with the rehabilitation team to provide excellent prosthetic care centered on patient needs.
What will you do?
As a Prosthetist, You Will
What is the position?
The Prosthetist is responsible for collaborating with the rehabilitation team to provide excellent prosthetic care centered on patient needs.
What will you do?
As a Prosthetist, You Will
- Create prosthetic device design based on best value and medical need.
- Work closely with rehabilitation team, including therapists and physicians.
- Evaluate patient needs related to medication, other surgeries, and disease and deliver prosthetic services.
- Maintain understanding of how medication, other surgeries, and disease may impact ability of patients to come to a functional level.
- Ensure patient care by reconciling identified issues with devices.
- Follow up with physicians, health care professionals, and patients, and propose treatment options to physicians as needed.
- Review prosthetic services to develop and improve business relationships and patient referrals.
- Discover new business development targets and opportunities such as therapists, physicians, case managers, etc.
- Complete OPIE tasks in one business day within "Workflow Initial Visit", "Workflow Casting/Scanning Appointment", "Workflow Diagnostic Appointment", and "Workflow Delivery Appointment".
- Baccalaureate degree required
- ABC Certified Prosthetist (CP) and licensed in the state of Ohio (LP)
- 10 years experience
- Must acquire 75 ABC approved credits (per 5 year period)
- Strong clinical, analytical, and organizational skills
- Ability to work with a team
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- You can be counted on in crucial times, possessing great focus while completing projects successfully and efficiently.
- You can grasp complex subjects and effectively strategize how to achieve optimal results.
