Plaster Room Practitioner

The plaster room provides a comprehensive Orthopaedic and Trauma plaster service for Fracture and orthopaedic clinic, outpatients, orthopaedics(adult and children) Theatres and paediatric physiotherapists.

The post holder needs to be professionally accountable and work according to the (AOP) Association of orthopaedic practitioners code of professional practice in

The assessment of care and health education needs

The development implementation and evaluation of programmes of care including discharge planning for each patient.

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in a range of casting techniques including Focus rigidity casts and have a wide range of casting skills with plaster of Paris and synthetic materials.

Candidates need to be mindful that the post will require flexibility of hours across the working week between the hours of 08:30 to 5pm, they will also need to be mindful of flexibility of working across all of our hospital sites.

To provide instruction to patients and carers regarding plaster care and encourage patient and carer involvement.

To ensure practice in casting and bracing techniques throughout the trust is underpinned by best practice/evidence based practice incorporating current advances in casting care.

To ensure patients safety, comfort, privacy and dignity are always maintained.

To contribute to effective structure of clinics.

To maintain a professional attitude in approach and appearance

To network effectively with similarly qualified colleagues to ensure best practice.

To keep appraised of current advances in casting care and facilitate their implementation for the benefit of the patients.

To support supervise and provide educational direction to clinic staff working within the plaster room environment.

Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.

We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff; Patients : to be good or outstanding at everything we do; Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;

We run services from Sandwell City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes intermediate care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare center's and at home.

Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital(MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls. MMUH will have state of the art facilities and future development of a learning campus.

Developing and caring for our people is fundamental. We were one of the first trusts to provide the real living wage, as well as a live and work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health and wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As people is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritize support for all our colleagues.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details on what this role entails.