Job Description

Essential Qualification & Experience Bachelor in Prosthetics and Orthotics is a must. Candidates having a Master's Degree in Prosthetics and Orthotics will be given preference. Registration in the Central Rehabilitation Register (CRR) of RCI is essential.

Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust, a leading NGO working in the health, education, and disability sector, needs a bright RCI-approved Orthotist & Prosthetist who is willing to work in a challenging environment.

Roles and Responsibility

Required Qualities

Travel- On-site involvement in patient screening, measurement, and prosthetic distribution camps across India.

Communication skills - The candidate must have excellent communication skills. They must be able to communicate effectively with the technicians who often create medical devices. They must also be able to explain to patients how to use and care for the devices.

Detail-oriented - The candidate must be precise when recording measurements to ensure that devices are designed and fit properly.

Organizational skills - The candidate must have Strong organizational skills, including good recordkeeping, which are critical in both medical and business settings.

Patience. Candidate may work for long periods with patients who need special attention.

Physical dexterity - Candidate must be good at working with their hands. They may design orthotics or prosthetics with intricate mechanical parts.

Physical stamina - The candidate should be comfortable performing physical tasks, such as working with shop equipment and hand tools. They may spend a lot of time bending over or crouching to examine or measure patients.

Problem-solving skills - Candidate must evaluate their patients' situations and often look for creative solutions to their rehabilitation needs

COMMUNICATION:

1) Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to beneficiaries, the public, and other stakeholders. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.

2) Communicating with NGO Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates -- Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.

Towards patients:

1) Examine and interview patients for medical history and clinical assessment, measure patients' lower limbs and maintain patients' records, confer with physicians to formulate specifications and prescriptions for patient-specific prosthetic devices, design of prosthetic devices, based on physicians' prescriptions, and patients' records

2) Fit, test, and evaluate devices on patients, and make adjustments for proper fit, function, and comfort

3) Repair, rebuild, and modify prosthetic and orthopedic appliances

4) Instruct patients in the use and care of orthoses and prostheses and provide medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to the patients.

5) Telephonic communication with patient leads for inquiry of prosthetic aid

Towards NGO managers:

Reporting and coordinating daily activities of prosthetic aid distribution.

Educational qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Prosthetics and Orthotics from a renowned institution

2. Candidate must have RCI registration completed on or before the date of application.

Experience

Min. 1-year experience required

Nature of Employment Full time contractual based

Reporting Location Mumbai along with travel to different locations for short term mobility camps as per necessity

Salary based on attitude and experience and work ethics

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We organize mobility camps nationwide providing Free Jaipur Foot , Calipers and other mobility aids to disabled people irrespective of caste or religion.

The Trust has reached out to more than 2.50 lakh patients in past 20 years.

Ratna Nidhi has a fully equipped Jaipur Foot and Caliper fitment center at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai which is manned by trained technicians and equipped with all the machinery required to fabricate Jaipur Foot or Calipers within a matter of hours.

We also serve free food to 3000 school children across 22 low income schools in Mumbai, which is prepared at our kitchen in Khetwadi, Mumbai.

We have started the Mission Million Books Project in association with World Bank-USA, which aims to distribute 1 million educational books to more than 10,000 schools and colleges in India. Over 1.30 million books have been donated to over 4000 schools and colleges in India in the past 8 years.

We have launched Vision 1 Million with Essilor Vision Foundation which manufactures and donate free of cost high-quality prescription eyeglasses to school children and adults in Maharashtra

We have a Mou with Govt of Maharashtra to work in all districts with their help to make an impact in prosthetics, library creation & vision for zp students

Many national and international awards and honors have been given to our Trust for its selfless service in this area. To know more please log on to www.ratnanidhi.org

We have started MISSION MILLION KHICHDI programme in covide and have distributed million meals in covid in slums of mumbai and now it is continuing full time

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ?40,000.00 - ?60,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Leave encashment

Schedule:

• Day shift

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• total work: 3 years (Preferred)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Preferred)

Work Location: In person