Orthopaedic Practitioner

Orthopaedic practitioner, Band 5

The post holder is required to undertake a wide range of tasks in support of clinical professionals, including activities directly related to patient care.

He/she will provide specialised splints for the paediatric inpatients and outpatient department, Hand management unit, medical patients, diabetic patients and burns and plastics patients.

He/she provides support in the development and implementation of effective programmes of care for efficient operation of all sessions. He/she is expected to carry out all relevant forms of care without direct supervision and will be required to supervise staff and assist in staff training and development

The post includes deputising for the senior orthopaedic practitioner.
Clinical responsibilities

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He /she will provide casting/technical services to adult and paediatric Out-patient clinics, Accident and Emergency department, wards and operating theatres.

He/she will provide specialised splints for the paediatric inpatients and outpatient department, Hand management unit, medical patients, diabetic patients and burns and plastics patients.

He/she provides support in the development and implementation of effective programmes of care for efficient operation of all sessions. He/she is expected to carry out all relevant forms of care without direct supervision and will be required to supervise staff and assist in staff training and development.

The post holder is required to undertake a wide range of tasks in support of clinical professionals, including activities directly related to patient care.
He /she will provide casting/technical services to adult and paediatric Out-patient clinics, Accident and Emergency department, wards and operating theatres.

He/she will provide specialised splints for the paediatric inpatients and outpatient department, Hand management unit, medical patients, diabetic patients and burns and plastics patients.

He/she provides support in the development and implementation of effective programmes of care for efficient operation of all sessions. He/she is expected to carry out all relevant forms of care without direct supervision and will be required to supervise staff and assist in staff training and development.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

Clinical responsibilities
- To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team providing specialist practical skills and theoretical knowledge across a range of work procedures and practices in accordance with BOA/RCN (SOTN/AOT) casting techniques/standards.
- o be able to undertake the construction and fitting of a range of routine and complex casts. including cast braces/Focus rigidity casting/all advanced bracing work
- To assist A&E medical staff with patients requiring manipulation of various fractures
- To collaborate with occupational therapists/hand therapists to design and produce bespoke splints
- To ensure that all patients requiring casts or further work to existing casts are treated promptly and if applicable, not delay patient discharge.
- To triage patients with cast problems and deal with or refer as appropriate.
- To attend elective T&O lists as and when requested by the orthopaedic surgeons.
- To check wounds and dressings without supervision and redress appropriately.
- To remove sutures from patients
- To remove casts and discharge patients from the fracture clinic without further referral when instructed to do so by the consultant.
- To attend ward patients as and when required, and to ensure that patients aren’t unduly delayed if waiting for disch