A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
We are excited to offer a unique opportunity for an experienced professional to join our team as the Advanced Moving and Handling & Inpatient Falls Prevention Facilitator. This role is crucial in delivering high-quality, evidence-based training in falls prevention and advanced moving and handling across OPAC services.
You will play a key role in developing, implementing, and reviewing training programs, ensuring alignment with national guidelines and promoting patient safety.
*This post is open for consideration of a Job Share.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and deliver falls prevention and advanced moving and handling training, maintaining current best practices.
• Partner with Operational Leads to promote best practices across wards, reducing falls and improving patient safety.
Work alongside Occupational Therapists to address community moving and handling needs effectively
This position offers enhanced training andprofessional development opportunitiesin these critical areas. If this sounds like a post you are interested in, give us a call we are happy to discuss the opportunity further.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
• Lead and deliver falls prevention and advanced moving and handling training, maintaining current best practices.
• Partner with Operational Leads to promote best practices across wards, reducing falls and improving patient safety.
• Work alongside Occupational Therapists to address community moving and handling needs effectively.
• Significant experience in falls prevention and moving and handling in a healthcare setting.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• This position offers enhanced training and professional development opportunities in these critical areas. If this sounds like a post you are interested in, give us a call we are happy to discuss the opportunity further
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Dec 2024