Physiotherapy Assistant​/Plaster Technician

Main area Therapy Assistant Grade NHS AfC:
Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 19.5 hours per week Job
-NOTSS-8127260-B3

Site Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Town Oxford Salary £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/10/2026 23:59

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital
, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this
Delivering Compassionate Excellence
and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use
Value Based Interviewing
to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly, enthusiastic and professional children's outpatient therapy team. The post holder will be directly involved in patient care, assisting physiotherapists with treatments such as plaster cast removal and application, and seeing some patients independently under the supervision of a physiotherapist. Prior experience of similar paid or voluntary work, e.g. casting or other "hands-on" technical work or hobbies would be an advantage, although full training will be given.

The successful applicant will have good communication and organisation skills as this post is pivotal in the smooth running of the department, taking responsibility for ordering plaster supplies and mobility equipment.

Main Duties:

• To support clinical practitioners to deliver direct patient care in a children's' elective plaster cast service. This includes pre-and post-op casting (including minor wound and skin care), and casting for therapeutic goals such as stretching / walking pattern
• To provide efficient and effective indirect clinical support to the department: attending to patients, therapy colleagues, consultant surgeons and referrers to the service, both in person in clinic and on the telephone, promptly and courteously at all times and be a worthy frontline representative of the high quality service.
• To maintain a clean and tidy clinic environment, including cleaning of casting equipment
• To support the physiotherapy service in maintaining supplies of equipment and stock - monitoring stock levels, placing and receiving orders, maintaining a tidy equipment store
• To complete effective and timely patient notes as required
• To be able to assist therapists as necessary with the management of patients requiring more than one person. This may require the use of moderate physical effort.
• To carry out in-direct clinical tasks as required by the department e.g. appointment administration, direct patient/family telephone communication, maintaining department logs.
• To be able to work clinically with patients with indirect supervision from the physiotherapy team

• Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the…