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Job Description
Duties & Responsibilities
- Manages clinical operations and clinical staff at assigned patient care facility. Clinical staff includes clinicians, technicians, and fitters.
- Collaborates with clinicians in the evaluation and analysis of a patient’s need for prosthetic and/or orthotic services; recommend treatment options to clinicians when necessary.
- Examines and evaluates patient's needs in relation to disease and functional loss.
- Formulates design of prosthetic and/or orthotic devices.
- Performs evaluation of fit (including static and dynamic alignments) to assure function, medical efficacy, and quality of work are appropriate.
- Instructs patient in use of device.
- Provides detailed clinical notes in patient records.
- Trains Technicians, Residents, Fitters, and other Clinicians, as appropriate.
- Utilizes effective materials management, quality, and performance processes to maximize device quality and medical efficacy, maintaining a proper balance with costs and operational/financial performance.
- Meets with physicians, case managers and other referral sources to review services and capabilities; develop and enhance business relationships to identify and secure ongoing and future sources or referrals.
- Provides complete and accurate direction and guidance to technicians responsible for fabrication of orthoses and/or prosthesis for his/her patients. Delegate responsibility and expect accountability and regular feedback.
- Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; Assist in preparing an annual budget.
- Achieves and maintains professional knowledge and technical skills through continuing education.
- Identifies and creates improvements to processes to promote efficiency and productivity. This specifically includes current "state of the art" knowledge, procedures, components, and materials including application based on diagnosis.
- Helps ensure offices are ABC/Medicare/Labor Compliant and assist with accreditation, as necessary.
- Complies with Corporate Compliance and HIPAA requirements.
- Enforces all safety regulations; Compliance with Medicare and other governmental regulations; Compliance with bloodborne and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements.
- Performs other duties or special projects as assigned.