Are you passionate about delivering high-quality training and development opportunities? Would you like to play a key role in ensuring a safe and effective clinical workforce for now and the future? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you to join our dynamic team at UHDB!
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Back Care Team as a Senior Manual Handling Technician. This is a fantastic chance to contribute to the delivery of training and learning opportunities across all UHDB sites and to our external partners.
Your work will ensure we have a highly skilled and confident clinical workforce, now and into the future.
About The Role
The focus of this role is to deliver practical training to a wide range of learners, including staff, patients, and carers, to develop their knowledge and skills in safe moving and assisting practices.
As the successful candidate you will lead and participate in:
* Planning, organising and delivering practical training to learners, staff across all groups, patients, and carers (where applicable).
* Equipping learners with the knowledge and skills needed in safe moving and assisting practices, along with related subject areas.
* Supporting the development of a safe, effective, and competent clinical workforce.
* Collaborating with other Learning Facilitators to support training for learners at the university base, ensuring they are well-prepared for placements and able to deliver safe patient care.
About You
We’re looking for someone who has:
* Extensive experience of working within a Healthcare Professional role.
* Knowledge of the Derbyshire Inter Agency Group (DIAG) and Risk Assessment process.
* Teaching and assessing experience.
* Flexibility to meet the needs of the role and the service.
* A passion for teaching and developing others.
* A strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
* Eager to develop their skills and grow into a leading role within training delivery.
Closing date of applications: 2 March 2025
Date of interview: 19 March 2025
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In Return We Will Offer
* Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development.
* On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
* Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.
Key Facts
* We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
* We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
* An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
* Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
* Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
* We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
* We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
* UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Marie Babicki Job title: Senior Handling Advisor Email address: marie.babicki@nhs.net Telephone number: 01332 789535 #J-18808-Ljbffr