Band 7 Lead Orthopaedic Technician
The closing date is 09 October 2025
Job summary
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Lead Orthopaedic Practitioner to join our busy Trauma and Orthopaedic Department. This is a key leadership role, working closely with both the orthopaedic and clinic teams to provide strong leadership, effective unit management, and support the development of staff across the service.As Lead Practitioner, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the orthopaedic wards, outpatients, and fracture clinics and the plaster room, ensuring care is delivered in line with Trust policy and the highest professional standards. You will take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care to ensure our patients consistently receive excellent, safe, and compassionate treatment.This role includes oversight of the Plaster Room service, where you will lead on the delivery of clinical care, support clinical governance and patient experience initiatives, and champion workforce development and education.We are looking for someone who can provide kind, skilled, and expert leadership--someone with the ability to inspire and empower others, introduce innovative ideas, and drive continuous improvements in practice. As a visible and approachable leader, you will supervise and teach nursing and non-nursing colleagues, acting as a positive clinical role model and ensuring high-quality care is consistently delivered.
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Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as a Lead Orthopaedic Technician within a skilled team delivering high-quality services across Trauma and Orthopaedics, the Emergency Department, Urgent Treatment Centre, Wards, Theatres, and other departments within the Trust.
You will provide both direct and indirect patient care of the highest standard within Fracture, Orthopaedic, and Paediatric Clinics, as well as supporting care in Wards, Theatres, and other areas as required.
You will act as a specialist resource, offering expert guidance, advice, and education to members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) in relation to your specialist area.
In partnership with the Clinical Leads, you will provide leadership and coordination for the Plaster Room service, ensuring safe, effective, and patient-focused care. This includes planning, delivering, and evaluating services, while continuously driving improvements in quality and efficiency.
The role also carries responsibility for the teaching, supervision, and appraisal of peers and junior colleagues (Bands 4-6), acting as a role model and supporting professional development within the team.
You will contribute to the ongoing development of the service, promoting innovation, and supporting the review and adaptation of policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines, ensuring practice remains evidence-based and aligned with best standards of care.
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About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatresat our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we've been shortlisted for Trust of the Yearat the Health Service Journal Awards.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need totransform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from ourWomen's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Details
Date posted
29 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£53,751 to £60,651 a year Per annum inclusive
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
162-7336-KK
Job locations
Plaster Technicians
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer details
Employer name
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Plaster Technicians
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer's website
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