Senior Orthopaedic Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Lead Orthopaedic Practitioner – Plaster Room

Are you ready to take the lead in a dynamic and highly skilled team? We’re looking for an inspiring professional to head up our dedicated Orthopaedic Practitioner team within our busy plaster room service.

You’ll play a pivotal role in delivering a comprehensive Orthopaedic and Trauma plaster service, supporting patients across a wide range of clinical areas. Our service is integral to Fracture and Orthopaedic clinics, Outpatients, the Emergency Department, and Orthopaedic theatres (both adult and paediatric). You’ll also collaborate closely with specialist services including the Diabetic Foot Clinic and Paediatric Physiotherapy.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine clinical expertise with leadership, driving high standards of patient care while supporting and developing a motivated and passionate team.

If you’re looking to make a real impact in a fast-paced, collaborative environment – we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Orthopaedic Practitioner Band 6 in Orthopaedic outpatients you would have responsibilities like:

o Coordinating the daily activities of the Clinic and plaster room.

o Working with the speciality team in deciding the clinic rota and allocation of staff according to skill mix.

o Be able to help the team with complex clinical and non-clinical situations arising in a day to day basis.

o Coordinate plaster room services ensuring cover for fracture clinic, Tau, Wards, and various speciality teams.

Please see the job description for further information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registration with the BOA

Desirable

  • British casting certificate gained

Knowledge

Essential

  • At least 5 years’ experience as a plaster technician.

Desirable

  • Be working towards specialist level of experience in paediatric casting skills.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 3 November 2026

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