Certified Prosthetist Orthotist Clinician; CPO, Board Eligible

Certified Prosthetist Orthotist Clinician (CPO, Board Eligible)

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Positions: 1

Location:

US-IL-Mount Vernon

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Job Type: Full-Time

With a mantra of Empowering Human Potential, Hanger, Inc. is the world's premier provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) services and products. Hanger offers advanced O&P solutions, clinically differentiated programs and unsurpassed customer service. The Patient Care segment is the largest owner and operator of O&P patient care clinics nationwide. Hanger’s vision is to lead the orthotic and prosthetic markets by providing superior patient care, outcomes, services and value.

As a Prosthetist and/or Orthotist looking for a management opportunity, you have dedicated yourself to improving the lives of the patients you serve. Hanger allows you to continue this endeavor while elevating you as a champion of the orthotic and prosthetic market. Advance your career by leveraging professional clinical expertise, established clinical practice guidelines, innovative technologies, specialized training & continuing education, and back office support at one of our more than 900 clinics nationwide.

Your patients are our focus and are the heart of everything we do. As a Hanger Prosthetist and/or Orthotist, you will assess patients, formulate treatment plans, implement those plans, follow-up with your patients and participate in practice management. If you have not yet achieved certification, you will provide care under the direction of one of our certified clinicians.

You will combine your clinical and technical skills to evaluate patients, custom design, fabricate and fit prostheses and/or orthoses to deliver exceptional outcomes for the patients you serve. You will collaborate with the rehabilitation team and innovate utilizing the latest technology as we all strive to empower human potential together.

• Collaborate with physicians in the evaluation and analysis of a patient's need for prosthetic and/or orthotic services; recommend treatment options to physicians when necessary.
• Examine and evaluate patient needs in relation to disease and functional loss.
• Formulate design of prosthetic and/or orthotic devices.
• Select materials, make cast measurements, model modifications, and layouts, taking into account new techniques and materials.
• Perform fitting, including static and dynamic alignments.
• Evaluate prosthetic and/or orthotic device on patient, adjust to assure fit, function, medical efficacy, and quality of work.
• Instruct patient in use of prosthetic and/or orthotic devices.
• Identify and reconcile issues/problems to ensure patient satisfaction with devices provided.
• Provide follow-up with patients and physicians.
• Provide in-service training to physicians and allied health care professionals.
• Utilize effective materials management, quality and performance processes to maximize device quality and medical efficacy, maintaining a proper balance with costs and operational/financial performance.
• Meet with physicians, case managers and other referral sources to review prosthetic and/or orthotic services and capabilities; develop and enhance business relationships to identify and secure ongoing and future sources or referrals.
• Plan and implement strategies to meet and exceed revenue targets in coordination with management.
• Provide detailed clinical notes to patient records.
• May mentor residents or newly certified clinicians.
• Provide assistance to other clinical staff.
• Provide information to administrative staff to conduct reimbursement activities.
• Adhere to all safety regulations; compliance with Medicare and other governmental regulations; compliance with blood borne and OSHA requirements.
• Perform other duties or special projects as assigned.
• May be asked to perform on-call, hospital calls, or float between more than one Hanger Clinic location.

• Current board certification in Prosthetics and/or Orthotics from the American Board for Certification (ABC) or the Board of Certification (BOC), or
• A baccalaureate degree in prosthetics and/or orthotics, or the foreign equivalent, and current ABC Board-Eligibility in…