Nursing / Plaster Room Assistant

We deliver plaster room services across a range of our hospitals at North Tyneside, Northumbria Emergency Care Hospital, Cramlington, Hexham and Wansbeck Hospitals working across a 7 day service.

To support the plaster room service and team in delivering cast care and support to patients and to support the Outpatient Department team with healthcare duties in main out patients.

To assist the plaster technicians in all aspects of the plaster room environment and the Clinic nurse in all aspects of Clinics/predominately Orthopaedics.

There will be an 18 month training programme provided house that the post holder must complete within the time period

Car driver is essential as the role involves multiple site working on a regular basis., To assist the plaster technicians in all aspects of the plaster room environment and the Clinic nurse in all aspects of Clinics/predominately Orthopaedics

Makes judgments involving straightforward job related facts or situationsAble to recognise triggers on NEWs chart and act according as per algorithymAble to recognise signs of the deteriorating patient and alert qualified staff accordingly

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.