Job overview
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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Working for our organisation
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 ; we’ve opened at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we’ve been at 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 to and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at.
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 and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. BOA Casting Certificate with evidence of CPPD and up to date registration.
Desirable criteria
2. A recognised accredited Educate and Teach qualification.
Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
3. Excellent communication skills verbal and written
Experience / Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. Able to demonstrate a wide range of knowledge and experience in the field of casting and orthotics
Desirable criteria
5. Evidence of recent and continuing professional development
6. Experience of working of Ponseti and Total Contact Casting
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.