Employer: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Elizabeth House
Town: Fulbourn
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/12/2024 23:59
Advanced Moving and Handling and Inpatient Falls Prevention Facilitator
Band 7
Job Overview
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.
Main Duties of the Job
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 and professional development opportunities in these critical areas.
Working for Our Organisation
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.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
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.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* Current NMC/HCPC Registration
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
* Post-registration qualification specific to specialism
* PGCE or teaching qualification
* Relevant professional networks
* Significant experience in falls prevention
* Significant experience in Advanced Moving and Handling
* Experience of managing workload and ability to prioritise
* Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
* Experience of managing change
* Experience of delivering quality and service improvement
* Evidence of both Inpatient and community experience in Speciality
Knowledge and Skills
* Advanced understanding of clinical conditions in specialist area
* Knowledge of National and International guidelines relating to specialist areas
* Demonstrates knowledge of legislation relevant to specialist areas
* Excellent written/oral communication and presentation skills
* Self-motivated
* Able to work autonomously
* Able to lead, influence and empower others
* Able to work under pressure and towards deadlines
* Able to teach staff in educational contexts
* Able to adapt teaching style to meet the needs of learners
* Commitment to developing evidence-based practice
* Proficient IT skills including the ability to develop and manage databases, develop and deliver reports and presentations
* Experience in audit
* Ability to apply research findings
* Experience of managing feedback, investigation of complaints or similar
Personal Qualities
* Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
* Recognises the limits of own role
* Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
* Understands the principle of confidentiality
* Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
* Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress
* Can demonstrate flexibility of approach
* Demonstrates insight into personal strengths and areas for development
* Shows a realistic appreciation of the challenges of working with vulnerable adults
Other
* Ability to travel across the County (sometimes at short notice)
* Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
* Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), we are dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
If you are successful at interview, you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references, and Occupational Health.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
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.
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