Health Care Job Registered prosthetic technician in Edmonton

Title: Registered prosthetic technician (r.t.p.) (Osseointegration Technologist)  

Terms of Employment: Permanent, Full Time, Day

Salary: $30.90 to $39.71 Hourly for 38.75 hours per week, Other Benefits, Medical Benefits, Dental Benefits, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance Benefits, Group Insurance Benefits, Pension Plan Benefits, RRSP Benefits, As per collective agreement

Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible

Location: Edmonton, Alberta (1 vacancy) 

Skill Requirements:


Education: Completion of high school, Completion of college/CEGEP/vocational or technical training


Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.): Not applicable


Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years


Languages: Speak English, Read English, Write English


Work Setting: Hospitals, Prosthetics and orthotics laboratories


Area of Specialization: Prosthetics


Specific Prosthetists and Orthotists Skills: Design, build, fit and repair prosthetic and orthotic appliances, Examine and measure patients to develop working sketches of appliances, Surface finishing, mould making and polymerization techniques, Interpret physician's specification, Make and modify plaster casts


Specific Prosthetic and Orthotic Technician Skills: Repair, build and modify prosthetic or orthotic appliances or footwear, Assemble or build prosthetic and orthotic appliances according to drawings, measurements and plaster casts


Security and Safety: Bondable, Criminal record check, Immunization records, Tuberculosis test


Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities: Manual dexterity, Attention to detail, Hand-eye co-ordination, Walking, Bending, crouching, kneeling, Combination of sitting, standing, walking, Ability to distinguish between colours, Work under pressure


Essential Skills: Reading text, Document use, Numeracy, Writing, Oral communication, Working with others, Problem solving, Decision making, Critical thinking, Job task planning and organizing, Finding information, Computer use, Continuous learning


Other Information:The Osseointegration Technologist is responsible for: fabrication of intra-oral, extra-oral, and facial prosthetics; and design and fabrication of autogenous ear reconstruction planning.

Employer: Covenant Health

How to Apply:


Please apply for this job only in the manner specified by the employer. Failure to do so may result in your application not being properly considered for the position.


By Fax: (780) 735-2957
By E-mail: hr-mis@caritas.ab.ca
Online: http://www.covenanthealth.ca
Business Profile: Covenant Health is Canada's largest Catholic provider of health care, with 16 Catholic facilities in 11 communities across Alberta.

Web Site: http://www.covenanthealth.ca

Advertised until: 2009/06/04