Plaster Room Technician

Responsibilities

• To assist the Band 4 Plaster Technician in the safe delivery of care to patients requiring casting / plaster therapy.
• To provide technical and professional support within fracture clinics as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• To assist with administrative duties including ordering equipment, accurate record keeping and the input of service data.
• To assist with teaching and competency-based training for people involved with the application and removal of casts.
• Maintain standards of professional practice and competence to assure quality care that embraces the Trust Excel Values, policies and protocols.
• Provide the appropriate care in designated and recognised places in the organisation, including other wards and departments.

• To ensure that all client intervention is documented in a timely, objective, and confidential manner via specific service records.
• To assist in ensuring that any equipment/aids/treatments/ issued are fit for purpose and safe for use, and equipment stocks are maintained by following the correct re-ordering policy.
• To ensure a beneficial and positive communication with clients, their families/carers and other professionals involved, respecting individual needs and promoting user involvement/decision making.
• To ensure all necessary intervention is undertaken in accordance with departmental policy / protocols / training and advises a Senior Registered Professional / Clinical Nurse Manager of an inability to do so in a timely manner.
• To organise and prioritise own daily workload within the scope of the role.
• Use well developed communication skills (appropriate to the clients needs) to establish good working relationships with colleagues, patients and carers and understanding potential barrier.
• Encourage patients and their carers to actively participate in care (inclusive of regaining and maintaining their personal independence through the use of persuasion and motivational skills).
• Deal with sensitive situations or contentious information.
• Assist patients with activities of daily living (including personal hygiene and toileting) and ensure patient comfort safety and dignity at all times.
• Remove sutures / staples / wound care when competent to do so.
• Assist in application and removal of plaster of paris/synthetic casts as routine and knowledge and expertise of application and removal of specialised cast.
• Manage a clean clinical environment and dispose of waste material appropriately.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and person specification attached.

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women's, children's, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #Team Eliot. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is a mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.

In response to NICE guidance and to support the reduction of health harm from tobacco, the Trust has a smoke-free site policy which applies to anyone on Trust sites. Staff who smoke will be supported to quit or not smoke whilst on Trust sites.

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees as they are at the heart of our patients journey. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued, respected, empowered and included within an organisation that is representative of all members of the community. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual - taking pride in that we value employees, job applicants, students, volunteers, patients and visitors as people.

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