Job Description:
Create an Impact Every Single Day at Cedars-Sinai! When your daily work significantly affects others' lives, each effort, detail, and moment counts. This culture of passion and dedication thrives at Cedars-Sinai. By collaborating with leading healthcare experts and assisting patients with complex orthopaedic needs, you'll have the chance to create a meaningful impact for patients and their families. About the Orthopaedic ClinicThe Orthopaedic Center is an outpatient clinical care facility offering comprehensive services for patients with orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions throughout their lives. Our multidisciplinary team collaborates closely to deliver diagnostic and therapeutic care while assisting patients during their entire continuum of care. Our mission is to restore quality and function to life through compassionate care, innovation, and education, with a vision to be the global leader in Orthopaedics.
What Sets You Apart:
Successful candidates will bring strong hands-on orthopaedic technical skills along with a dedication to patient safety and high-quality care. You are proactive, dependable, diligent, and able to anticipate the needs of patients and providers in a busy outpatient environment. You communicate clearly, remain composed when patient volume is high, and work effectively across fields. You understand that excellent orthopaedic care involves not only technical expertise, but also compassionate patient education, teamwork, infection prevention, and attention to the overall patient experience.
Responsibilities:
What Will You Be Doing? As a Senior Orthopaedic Tech, you will carry out various direct patient care tasks for patients with musculoskeletal conditions, guided by a licensed caregiver. You will collaborate closely with orthopaedic surgeons, registered nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, medical assistants, clinical partners, residents, fellows, medical students, and other care team members. Assist physicians with casting procedures, including casting with and without reductions and skeletal traction. Apply, cut, trim, adjust, and remove casts as ordered by the physician. Apply and remove splints and assist with braces, suspension devices, skin traction, and other orthopaedic devices. Perform suture removal and change wound dressings as required by the role. Support durable medical equipment (DME) application for the finger, hand, wrist, upper extremity, and lower extremity. Assess patients with orthopaedic devices for accurate fit, positioning, pressure symptoms, and neurovascular status. Educate patients on injury care, device use and maintenance, and crutch use. Provide crutch training when needed. Maintain orthopaedic equipment and supplies and facilitate accurate usage tracking. Lead skills training for medical and surgical residents in splinting, bracing, casting, and traction application. Partner with members of the multidisciplinary care team to find solutions, manage care, and ensure safe, efficient patient outcomes. Provide compassionate, culturally responsive care to patients from a diverse set of backgrounds and across age groups.
Qualifications:- High school diploma or GED, or equivalent experience.
- Orthopaedic Technician certification (OTC)
- Demonstrated proficiency in essential orthopaedic procedures, including cast and splint application and removal, wound dressing changes, suture removal, and DME application.
- Two (2) years of Orthopaedic Technician experience in a similar outpatient orthopaedic environment.
