Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training, and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Manual Handling Trainer to join our friendly team. We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated individual to join the Manual Handling Training team as a Manual Handling Trainer.
This is a really good opportunity for a non-registered candidate with significant health care experience to be able to develop and grow into this role (e.g., Therapy Assistants and HCA's).
You would provide face-to-face hands-on practical training and education to all staff groups on moving and handling of patients and loads. Training includes mandatory, non-mandatory, bespoke specialised training, and onsite training sessions to specific staff groups. There will also be the opportunity to assist with the provision of external training.
The Manual Handling Trainer will assist the service to promote musculoskeletal health at work and reduce injury. This will contribute to the health and wellbeing of staff at work and prevention of harms to patients.
The service operates across all Trust sites across Cheshire and Merseyside and also involves travelling to individual patient homes; therefore, it is essential that the Manual Handling Trainer is able to travel to and from a wide variety of different locations as required for this role.
Key Responsibilities
1. Deliver face-to-face training on manual handling.
2. Support clinical teams with complex manual handling cases.
3. Complete equipment audits.
4. Support with DSE and return to work assessments.
5. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of health and safety legislation, manual handling equipment, and current best practice.
6. Support with the completion of clinical audits, visiting sites to check what equipment is in place and following up where necessary to ensure repairs and maintenance are completed.
7. Review incident data and support the Trust lead to develop action plans to address any concerns.
8. Assist with return to work manual handling assessments.
9. Engage with the wider Health and Safety and Clinical Skills teams, supporting where necessary.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme, you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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