Job summary
- Main area
- Education
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 216-SF-A6193266
- Employer
- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
- Town
- Plymouth
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Moving and Handling Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
There is an exciting opportunity to join the Department of Professional Healthcare Education as the Moving and Handling Lead.
The Moving and Handling Lead post is both an exciting and challenging role. The role will appeal to an experienced and motivated individual with demonstrable experience in moving and handling and ergonomics, who is driven to develop the role.
You must have excellent communications skills, commitment to working flexibly and effectively. You will work with the wider Risk Management Team, managers and leads across the organisation and support a safe environment for our patients and staff. You must have an awareness of current health and social care issues that affect both community and inpatient care for adults.
***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***
Main duties of the job
To lead the Moving & Handling service, providing expert/specialist advice across the organisation, on the implementation and maintenance of safer moving & handling policies and practice.
To lead the Physical Intervention (PI) Training Team to ensure they meet the training requirements of the trust and national standards.
Manage the moving & handling team and PI training team to co-ordinate activities in the promotion of a healthy workplace by educating staff and implementing change to minimise the risk of injury from moving & handling and PI tasks.
Design & Co-ordinate all training relating to moving and handling including speciality areas such as bariatric and spinal injuries – to ensure that the Trust remains compliant with national standards & regulations on moving & handling training and best practice.
Provide information and professional advice to support the Trust to meet national standards and legislative requirements and advise the Trust on compliance in relation to moving & handling.
To lead the PI training team to deliver the training required under the PI leads.
Lead on the developments, implementation and audit of the Trust’s Safer Moving & Handling Policy – working with others involved in the care of patients in hospital, management of medical devices and staff health & well-being.
Working for our organisation
We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide effective operational and strategic leadership for the development and delivery of care for all patients, of all ages across the acute Trust, to encompass the planning, education and training for the safe moving and handling in line with national guidance, the Human Rights Framework, Moving and Handling legislation and understand how the Use of Force Act should be supported for PI trainers.
Provide strategic advice and support Trust wide to facilitate an effective programme of risk management Moving and Handling.
Provide expert advice, guidance and support to UHPNT regarding Moving and Handling interventions: policies, procedures, guidelines, and audit and incident analysis.
Design audit programmes as necessary to facilitate the Trust to benchmark their own arrangements and services regarding moving and Handling activities and PI training in relation to national standards and guidelines.
Produce reports for the Health and Safety Committee in line with their terms of reference.
Provide audit on training and compliance to the trust Physical Intervention leads.
To advise on appropriate governance, audit and risk management with regards to Moving and Handling
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC / HCPC / GMC registration
- Completed an accredited Train the Trainers course in moving and handling or equivalent.
- Post graduate qualification in back care management – or willing and able to undertake this.
- Recognised Teaching Qualification e.g. Post Graduate Cert Ed or equivalent demonstratable experience
Desirable criteria
- Meet the qualifications from the national back exchange framework.
- Advanced NBE member
- Masters level post-registration in education
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Developed communication skills, including the ability to address complex and sensitive issues in an appropriate manner
- Effective and confident presentation skills and ability to deliver information to an audience of mixed abilities.
- Must be physically fit to undertake the physical aspects of delivering training that will involve moving and handling regularly.
- Ability to use a wide range of techniques (facilitation, coaching, instruction, etc.) and a range of delivery media
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In-depth proven knowledge of relevant legislation and national standards related to Manual handling – both of inanimate loads and within clinical practice (e.g. Manual handling Operations Regulations; Back Exchange framework)
- Proven Knowledge and understanding of ergonomic principles and risk assessment processes (e.g.HSE, Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations, Manual handling Operations Regulations 1992)
- Minimum 2 years demonstrable Experience working in an health care setting as a registered professional e.g. Registered Nurse, Chartered Physiotherapist or equivalent knowledge and experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Fishwick
- Job title
- Deputy Lead for Education
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01752431965
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