Credentials: Certified Orthotics (CO), Prosthetics (CP), or Both (CPO)
Orthotic and Prosthetic department providing care for adults under the supervision and ownership of a Vascular Surgery practice. The department is a new service line and intends to garner accreditation. The department provides custom designed and fitted devices to a wide variety of patient types. The department will reside inside of one of the practice’s main campus and serve patients from across the region. The candidate must be licensed with a proper educational background, worked in the field for at least five (5) years and it is preferred to have experience in management of staff and managed through accreditation.
Minimum Offer
$ 90,000
Maximum Offer
$ 125,000
Compensation Disclaimer
Compensation for this role is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to experience, education, and other business and organizational considerations.
Position Summary:
As a state certified CPO, manage the prosthetic and orthotic activities of specified patient population to include administration, management of human resources, and program/business assessment and development. Oversee and provide direct patient evaluation and care as required. Provide direction and leadership to others as a highly specialized practitioner. Creates and ensures adherence to Policies and Procedures. Establishes medical billing, documentation, and coding rules to meet financial and compliant guidelines. Prepares and passes accreditation. Establishes best practice schedules. Forms relationships with appropriate vendors. Achieves the highest possible patient satisfaction, care, and outcomes.
Responsibilities:
Supervision - Oversee all facets of the daily operations of the organizational unit, including supervision of assigned personnel, oversight of work allocation, training, and problem resolution
Regulations - Ensure compliance with professional practice standards and state, and federal laws, policies, and regulations
Performance - Evaluate employee performance and make recommendations for personnel actions; motivate employees to achieve peak productivity and performance
Compliance - Monitors competence with fitting, fabrication, and modification techniques
Communication - Utilize effective communication and patient/customer relation skills in dealing with patients, visitors, staff, and physicians
Work Flexibility - Demonstrate flexibility in working in a variety of settings
Patient Care - Perform direct patient care; Participate in planning for complementary patient care in other related units within the component
Training - Develop training programs for professional and technical staff engaged in similar work
Information - Prepare information for patient billing; Monitor inventory and ordering of patient supplies and fabrication supplies for departments
Records - Develop and implement systems to maintain records on employees, equipment inventories, and compliance activities
Development - Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings and workshops
Budget - Develop and administer the division's annual budget; monitor and approve expenditures.
Patient Safety - Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols; Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes; Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk; Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner; Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"
Qualifications
Education: Master's Degree in Orthotics and Prosthetics from a CAAHEP program
Experience: 5 years directly related experience
Strongly Preferred: Previous experience running a prosthetic department or opening/owning one.
Credentials: Certified Orthotics (CO), Prosthetics (CP), or Both (CPO)
Physical Conditions: Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.
Working conditions: Med Haz: Mod exposure to chemicals/dangerous equipment/material; Subject to an annual contract and performance appraisal.