Orthopaedic Plaster Technician

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Main 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
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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.

T o 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.

Please 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.

Ability 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:

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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:

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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.

JOB SUMMARY

T o 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…