Physiotherapy Assistant/Plaster Technician | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Company: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Salary: £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata per annum

Hours: Part-time

Location: Oxford, OX3 7HE

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 30 Sept 2026

Closing date: 30 Oct 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly, enthusiastic and professional children’s outpatient therapy team. The post holder will be directly involved in patient care, assisting physiotherapists with treatments such as plaster cast removal and application, and seeing some patients independently under the supervision of a physiotherapist. Prior experience of similar paid or voluntary work, e.g. casting or other "hands-on" technical work or hobbies would be an advantage, although full training will be given. The successful applicant will have good communication and organisation skills as this post is pivotal in the smooth running of the department, taking responsibility for ordering plaster supplies and mobility equipment.

Main Duties:

- To support clinical practitioners to deliver direct patient care in a children’s' elective plaster cast service. This includes pre-and post-op casting (including minor wound and skin care), and casting for therapeutic goals such as stretching / walking pattern
- To provide efficient and effective indirect clinical support to the department: attending to patients, therapy colleagues, consultant surgeons and referrers to the service, both in person in clinic and on the telephone, promptly and courteously at all times and be a worthy frontline representative of the high quality service.




- To maintain a clean and tidy clinic workplace, including cleaning of casting equipment
- To support the physiotherapy service in maintaining supplies of equipment and stock - monitoring stock levels, placing and receiving orders, maintaining a tidy equipment store
- To complete effective and timely patient notes as required
- To be able to assist therapists as necessary with the management of patients requiring more than one person. This may require the use of moderate physical effort.
- To carry out in-direct clinical tasks as required by the department e.g. appointment administration, direct patient/family telephone communication, maintaining department logs.
- To be able to work clinically with patients with indirect supervision from the physiotherapy team

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients,



colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Job description

- To work with children of all ages and their families, understanding the nature of their attendance and assisting practitioners in therapeutic goals.
- To assist staff with the management of patients referred to the department. To include: Assisting with the management of orthopaedic surgery patients, to include application and removal of casts, sometimes with indirect supervision, and sometimes requiring basic wound care
- Assisting with the application and removal of casts for non-surgical treatments
- Assisting in the management of babies being treated for hip dysplasia
- To work flexibly within the team, providing support to professional colleagues and the multidisciplinary team, and provide cover for other areas within paediatrics during annual leave, busy periods and where there is an imbalance of work.
- To assist in the maintenance of the department plaster supplies and equipment stocks
- To help maintain a clean and safe working environment, in particular the plaster room and store, and casting equipment
- To arrange appropriate appointments by person, telephone or letter and co-ordinate specialist requests, liaising with clinicians and administrative teams. <

📌 Physiotherapy Assistant/Plaster Technician | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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