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Main area
Plaster Tech
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Bank
Hours
Flexible working - 0.01 hours per week
Job ref
319-6256076AZ
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trustwide
Town
Cobalt
Salary
£28,407 - £34,581 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/05/2024 23:59

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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Bank Plaster Technician

NHS AfC: Band 5

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Plaster Technicians to join our bank.  In return you will can offer you:

    • Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
    • Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
    • Paid annual leave
    • NHS pension scheme
    • A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
    • Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
    • Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
    • Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
    • Option to block-book shifts in a set period
    • SMS notifications of shift availability
    • Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
    • Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
    • Free uniform, where applicable

Main duties of the job

This is a great opportunity to work in a flexible way with one of the country’s top performing trusts, twice rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission.                                    

Northumbria Healthcare covers a large geographical area, providing safe and high-quality care in both hospital and community settings. As such we need to be able to respond quickly to meet demands caused by an increase in patient activity, staff holidays or illness.                                                                   

This is where our staff bank plays a vital role, providing service support 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.    The bank is not just for doctors and nurses, we cater for all staff groups including AHPS, nursing support roles, administrative staff, facilities staff and more.

There are many reasons why people join the staff bank, some to supplement earnings, or to work around commitments such as childcare or studying, while others may wish to develop their skills and work experience. So, if having the flexibility to pick and choose your hours is important, then this may be your opportunity.      To find out more about the benefits of working on the bank visit our website www.yournorthumbriacareer.co.uk/staff-bank

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Extensive experience working in a plaster room
  • O.A/R.C.N (S.O.N) A.O.T Casting certificate
  • Comprehensive understanding of musclo-skeletal anatomy, physiology& orthopaedic conditions
  • Good communication skills at all levels
  • Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams
  • Ability to work quickly and efficiently while under pressure.
  • Willingness to learn new techniques and to undertake a training programme and assessment
  • Willingness to work throughout the trust
  • To lead, inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance and creating opportunities for development
  • To contribute to the development of a culture of high engagement, where staff are empowered and entrusted to provide the best services and care for patients
  • To promote and facilitate innovation and continuous improvement to deliver better services for service users and patients
  • You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • B.O.A/R.C.N(S.O.N)A.O.T Casting certificate
Desirable criteria
  • Dundee University orthopaedic medical technology certificate

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience working in a plaster room
  • omprehensive understanding of muscloskeletal anatomy,physiology & orthopaedic conditions
Desirable criteria
  • 730/998 Teaching Certificate
  • Thermo plastic training
  • Total contact casting training

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Judith Coates
Job title
OPD Manager
Email address
[email protected]