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 Clinic
The 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.
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.
Our compensation philosophy
We offer competitive total compensation that includes pay, benefits, and other recognition programs for our employees. The base pay range shown above takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including knowledge/skills; relevant experience and training; education/certifications/licensure; and other business and organizational factors. This base pay range does not include our comprehensive benefits package and any incentive payments that may be applicable to this role. Pay Transparency Non Discrimination Provision (PDF) (opens in new window)
Diversity and Inclusion at Cedars-Sinai
We are caretakers and innovators committed to the pursuit of equitable healthcare. But health equity is not possible without representation. Our commitment to diversity goes beyond demographics or checking boxes. Our people must reflect the diverse identities, experiences and geographies of the communities and patients we serve – because that’s what our patients, colleagues and communities deserve. Quality Care and Research—For All, By All (opens in new window).
Cedars-Sinai is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Applicant_Accommodation@cshs.org and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
Cedars-Sinai will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
At Cedars-Sinai, we are dedicated to the safety, health and wellbeing of our patients and employees. This includes protecting our patients from communicable diseases, such as influenza (flu) and COVID-19. For this reason, we require that all new employees receive a flu vaccine based on the seasonal availability of flu vaccine (typically during September through April each year) as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter as a condition of continued employment, subject to medical exemption or religious accommodation. For the same reason, you may also be required to receive other vaccines such as COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Cedars-Sinai reserves the right to make modifications to its required list of vaccines as required by law and/or policy. Cedars-Sinai’s AA Policy Statement (PDF) (opens in new window)