Main area: Nursing, AHP, Manual Handling, Health & Safety
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-TWS6918346
Site: Hollins Park Hospital
Town: Warrington
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 13/02/2025
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 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 overview
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 good opportunity for a non-registered candidate with significant health care experience to develop and grow into this role (e.g., Therapy Assistants and HCAs).
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 the prevention of harm 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 the wide variety of different locations as required for this role.
Main duties of the job
This is a practical training post, skills taught are hands-on practical, and you will be involved in the physical aspects of moving people and objects on a daily basis.
When not training, you will support staff in the delivery of safe manual handling in patient care, working alongside staff in clinical areas and home settings. Experience in moving and handling of people in a health care setting would be valuable.
In addition to training, the post holder will be expected to support with undertaking audits, site visits, and incident reviews.
It is an interesting and varied role, with lots of opportunity for the right candidate to develop and progress.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Deliver face-to-face training on manual handling
* Support clinical teams with complex manual handling cases
* Support with DSE and return to work assessments
* Maintain up-to-date knowledge of health and safety legislation, manual handling equipment, and current best practice.
* 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.
* Review incident data and support the Trust lead to develop action plans to address any concerns.
* Assist with return to work manual handling assessments.
* Engage with the wider Health and Safety and Clinical Skills teams, supporting where necessary.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Certificate of Education or equivalent professional qualification in delivering learning e.g., PTTLS
* NEBOSH Certificate or other equivalent qualification
Knowledge and Experience
* Proven experience of delivering moving and handling or other types of training in a health care/patient setting
* Knowledge of safer moving and handling practice
* Specialist knowledge of a range of hoists and manual equipment required in clinical practice
* Experience as a Moving and Handling Link Worker
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* An engaging and competent trainer and presenter
* Physically able to demonstrate moving and handling techniques
* Effective communication skills – both oral, written, and presentation skills
* Proven organisational skills and ability to manage own workload
* Ability & willingness to travel across the Trust
* Ability to collect, collate, and analyse data in order to evaluate training needs and interventions
* Strong interpersonal and influencing skills including sensitivity
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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 who 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 recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk 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. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details, in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name: Jason O'Flaherty
Job title: Falls and Manual Handling Coordinator
Email address: jason.oflaherty@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07469109364
We appreciate that not all potential candidates may have all of the skills and qualifications noted in the JD. We are willing to support the right candidate to develop and grow into this role and so would encourage candidates to apply even if they feel they may be missing one or more of the core expectations for this post.
Tours of the workplace can be accommodated and candidates are also encouraged to contact the Trust Manual Handling Lead for an informal chat.
Tel: Jason 07469 109364
Email: jason.oflaherty@merseycare.nhs.uk
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