Plaster Technician
at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Chester CH2, England, United Kingdom -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 01 Sep, 2024 | GBP 27596 Annual | 02 Jun, 2024 | N/A | Good communication skills | No | No |
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Description:
WHO OUR OPPORTUNITY IS FOR:
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Outpatients for a Plaster Technician.
You will be employed as a Band 4 if you currently hold the “British Casting Certificate”. If you do not hold this you will start as a Band 3 until completion of the “British Casting Certificate”.
The post holder will work within the multi disciplinary team implementing care for outpatients and in-patients as required. The post holder will work predominantly in the plaster room carrying out procedures including applying and removing plasters, simple wound assessment and dressings, also assist in the clinic as work load dictates.
The successful candidates will be expected to work within a specific clinical area of Orthopedics.
Under supervision and direction of the Registered Nurse assist in delivery of the safe, high-quality care to all patients
Maintaining adequate stock levels.
Maintaining a clean environment.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application
Responsibilities:
Please refer the Job description for details
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Hospital/Health Care
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Technician
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Chester CH2, United Kingdom