3.8 KiB
3.8 KiB
Competences — prosthetist-orthotist
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/929b5c9d-2fbf-44f2-980d-2ac6c0dc212f).
Essential
- adhere to organisational guidelines (skill/competence)
- advise on rehabilitation exercises (skill/competence)
- answer patients' questions (skill/competence)
- archive healthcare users' records (skill/competence)
- biomechanics (knowledge)
- collect healthcare user's general data (skill/competence)
- communicate in healthcare (skill/competence)
- comply with legislation related to health care (skill/competence)
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice (skill/competence)
- contribute to continuity of health care (skill/competence)
- contribute to the rehabilitation process (skill/competence)
- create lifecasts (skill/competence)
- design medical supportive devices (skill/competence)
- ensure safety of healthcare users (skill/competence)
- human anatomy (knowledge)
- instruct patients on supportive devices (skill/competence)
- interact with healthcare users (skill/competence)
- kinetics (knowledge)
- listen actively (skill/competence)
- modify lifecasts (skill/competence)
- prosthetic devices (knowledge)
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment (skill/competence)
- rehabilitation (knowledge)
Optional
- assist patients with rehabilitation (skill/competence)
- develop therapeutic relationships (skill/competence)
- finish prosthetic-orthotic devices (skill/competence)
- first aid (knowledge)
- human physiology (knowledge)
- hygiene in a health care setting (knowledge)
- identify patients' medical records (skill/competence)
- maintain prosthetic-orthotic devices (skill/competence)
- manipulate plastic (skill/competence)
- manipulate prosthetic-orthotic device materials (skill/competence)
- manipulate wood (skill/competence)
- medical informatics (knowledge)
- medical terminology (knowledge)
- modify casts for prostheses (skill/competence)
- orthopaedic conditions (knowledge)
- orthopaedic goods industry (knowledge)
- orthopaedics (knowledge)
- orthotics (knowledge)
- pathology (knowledge)
- pedorthics (knowledge)
- perform a prosthetic examination of the patient (skill/competence)
- place orders for orthopedic products (skill/competence)
- prosthetic-orthotic device materials (knowledge)
- provide health education (skill/competence)
- recommend orthopedic goods to customers depending on their condition (skill/competence)
- recommend orthotic devices (skill/competence)
- record data from biomedical tests (skill/competence)
- repair orthopedic goods (skill/competence)
- repair prosthetic-orthotic devices (skill/competence)
- respond to changing situations in health care (skill/competence)
- test prosthetic-orthotic devices (skill/competence)
- types of orthopedic supplies (knowledge)
- use e-health and mobile health technologies (skill/competence)
- work in multidisciplinary health teams (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 16 ads, as of 2026-07-19)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- orthotic design — 50 %
- prosthetic design — 50 %
- patient assessment — 38 %
- patient evaluation — 38 %
- patient care — 31 %
- treatment planning — 25 %
- prosthesis design — 19 %
- device fabrication — 19 %
- gait analysis — 19 %
- materials management — 19 %
Responsibilities
- device fitting — 31 %
- follow-up care — 25 %
- patient instruction — 25 %
- patient assessment — 25 %
- physician collaboration — 19 %
- treatment implementation — 19 %