Full job descriptionOrthopaedic Plaster TechnicianNHS AfC: Band 4Main area

Orthopaedic Services
Grade

NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract

Permanent
Hours

Part time - 29.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm)
Job ref

435-S130-26-A
Site

East Lancashire Hospitals Trust - Royal Blackburn Holiday
Town

Blackburn
Salary

£28,392 - £31,157 per annum pro rata
Salary period

Yearly
Closing

17/09/2026 23:59
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overviewTo deliver SAFE, PERSONAL and EFFECTIVE patient care daily. You should be an enthusiastic and motivated plaster technician with an existing British Casting Certificate and recent experience in a plaster room in an acute hospital setting. The successful applicant would work as a team player within our busy plaster room environment within our orthopaedic outpatients department. The majority of working would be carried out on the Royal Blackburn site. However, flexibility and cross site working at our Burnley General Hospital site may also be required.
The post holder will provide a full range of casts and splints for patients’ being treated by the Trust. This includes but is not limited to patients’ visiting the Emergency Department, adult and paediatric trauma and orthopaedic wards (on both site’s), specialised theatre support, the fracture and orthopaedic clinics and the Nurse Dressing clinic on a daily basis.
Main duties of the jobPlease see attached document outlining all role requirements for this vacancy.
Exciting opportunity to join our busy orthopaedic outpatients’ department and undertake the role of plaster technician and all that this requires.
Working for our organisationAbility to demonstrate the Trust Values, Behaviours and Attitudes at all times.
Conduct duties with regard to values underpinning the Trust’s Vision " to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care" :-
Values:-
Respecting the individual
Putting patients and customers first
Promoting positive change
Acting with integrity
Serving the community
Underpinning the Trust’s vision and values are the following key operating principles that influence the way in which the Trust does business:-
Understand the world we live in and deal with it
We are clinically led and management supported
Support departments support the front line
Everything is delivered by and through Divisions
Compliance with standards and targets are a given. They are the things we do to help secure our independence and influence
Quality is our organising principle - driving quality up and cost down is not mutually exclusive
We deliver what we say we need to
Post holders are expected to work flexibly within their pay band. They should only be expected to carry our activities for which they are competent. Alternatively they may carry out the additional duties if they are receiving support or training in order to obtain the recognised level of competence.
The Trust operates a Tobacco Control Policy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesJOB SUMMARY
To deliver SAFE, PERSONAL and EFFECTIVE patient care daily. You should be an enthusiastic and motivated plaster technician with an existing British Casting Certificate and recent experience in a plaster room in an acute hospital setting. The successful applicant would work as a team player within our busy plaster room environment within our orthopaedic outpatients department. The majority of working would be carried out on the Royal Blackburn site. However, flexibility and cross site working at our Burnley General Hospital site may also be required.
The post holder will provide a full range of casts and splints for patients’ being treated by the Trust. This includes but is not limited to patients’ visiting the Emergency Department, adult and paediatric trauma and orthopaedic wards (on both site’s), specialised theatre support, the fracture and orthopaedic clinics and the Nurse Dressing clinic on a daily basis.
MAIN DUTIES
*The post holder will hold the British Casting Certificate and practise in line with the training undertaken to achieve this

*Have a minimum of 6 months recent experience in the plaster room of an acute hospital setting.

*Will actively mentor and support members of the team readily sharing skills and knowledge with less experienced colleagues. Acting as a mentor and resource for trainees who are developing their casting and splinting skills within the Trust.

*Will practise in line with all Trust policies.

*Will be able to work unsupervised using their own initiative, and be able to advise colleagues regarding available options for fracture or injury management.

*To competently apply a range of casts, splints and supports appropriate to the injury or orthopaedic problems and meet the patients’ needs. Whilst doing so to provide reassurance and communicate the management required for the applied support.

*Assist medical and nursing staff in the assessment of patients’, giving advice regarding appropriate casts, splints or techniques.

*Set and maintain a high standard of patient care and promote health care education.

*Be knowledgeable regarding possible problems and complications related to fractures and their management with casts, and to take appropriate measures to prevent occurrence.

*Attend regular departmental meetings to share learning and develop solutions to current issues.

*Help to maintain a friendly and efficient environment within the plaster rooms to reassure patients’ and relatives and put them at ease.

*Order and maintain levels of stock e.g., stationery, dressings brace etc to ensure that the plaster rooms and clinics are stocked appropriately.

*To work in the clinic are where required, supporting medical staff, patients’ and their relatives within range of competency.

*Acknowledge own limitations and ensure competence prior to carrying out any tasks.

*Deliver holistic care to patients promoting equality, diversity and rights.

COMMUNICATION
*To communication clearly and respectfully with patients’ / family & carer, and to
document these in accordance with Trust policy and the patients right to confidentiality. Communication should be empathetic, tactful and courteous....