Skilled, experienced and flexible staff are employed to fill the short term and long term positions you require, this enables a good level of care and service that can be provided 24 / 7.
Our agency employs known and valued members who support the requirements of health services to maintain care and facilities when the required. The agency vets all staff and ensures the experience, skill and CRB certification is tested and checked prior to allocation to role.
The Orthopaedic Technicians Agency have a portfolio of practitioners that can fill those roles. We supply staff with the same qualities that is expected in all of the North’s Hospitals. Our staffs are all senior Plaster technician / practitioners working exclusively for hospitals in predominantly the North of England.
Our aim is to continue to deliver these services at the most cost effective with a simple price agreement and for the third year running we have frozen our already competitive prices.
Skilled, experienced and flexible staff are employed to fill the short term and long term positions you require, this enables a good level of care and service that can be provided 24 / 7.
Our agency employs known and valued members who support the requirements of health services to maintain care and facilities when the required. The agency vets all staff and ensures the experience, skill and CRB certification is tested and checked prior to allocation to role.
The Orthopaedic Technicians Agency have a portfolio of practitioners that can fill those roles. We supply staff with the same qualities that is expected in all of the North’s Hospitals. Our staffs are all senior Plaster technician / practitioners working exclusively for hospitals in predominantly the North of England.
Our aim is to continue to deliver these services at the most cost effective with a simple price agreement and for the third year running we have frozen our already competitive prices.
History
Since 2010 the agency has been supporting the health services in the north east. Either public or private health sectors have been engaged to supply skilled and professional orthopaedic technicians.
Our team is called on at short notice to cover holidays, sickness, staff shortages, skill shortages and maternity leave when required.
Gary Hamilton and Trevor Dinsdale set up the agency after identifying a need in their local area. The team has grown year on year and supports the health sector successfully in all areas of orthopaedic technicians
Gary and Trevor have over forty years of NHS, Private and Agency experience. The agency is dedicated to supplying quality people that understand the needs of the orthopaedic services.
Why Use OTA?
The Orthopaedic Technicians Agency have a portfolio of practitioners that can fill those roles. We supply staff with the same qualities that is expected in all of the North’s Hospitals. Our staffs are all senior Plaster technician / practitioners working exclusively for hospitals in predominantly the North of England.
Our aim is to continue to deliver these services at the most cost effective with a simple price agreement and for the third year running we have frozen our already competitive prices.
The Role
When patients require a cast following an accident, after surgery or to remedy an orthopaedic condition (an injury or disease of the skeleton and its related muscles), it is fitted by an orthopaedic technician.
Increasingly known as orthopaedic practitioners, or plaster technicians, they apply casts under the direction of orthopaedic consultants and surgeons. In some cases, they discuss with consultants the most appropriate treatments for specific problems, including the design and
application of casts, splints and braces.
Orthopaedic practitioners use a variety of casting materials, including plaster of Paris and a range of resin-covered materials on fibreglass, polypropylene and polyester bases. They have to understand their different properties to decide which to choose. Their work includes:
positioning limbs appropriately in readiness for fitting a cast applying the most appropriate casting applying orthopaedic splints and braces applying bandaging or slings, where necessary being a point of contact for patients and advising on how to look after their casts and
dealing with any problems which may occur measuring for, providing and advising patients on the use of suitable walking aids
removing casts checking for any signs of pressure or infection when removing casts completing patient records.
Other responsibilities include maintaining and monitoring health and safety issues in the plaster room and ensuring it is stocked with equipment and supplies. They may also help to train less experienced staff in how to apply and remove plaster casts and tractions. This includes junior medical staff, accident and emergency staff and ward staff.