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Senior Moving and Handling Facilitator
| Posting date: | 11 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,392.00 to £42,618.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 July 2024 |
| Location: | Plymouth, PL6 8DH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9216-24-1085 |
Summary
To deputise/support the Moving and Handling Lead providing expert/specialist advice to ensure continuity of service across the organisation, on the implementation and maintenance of safer handling policies and practice. To deputise/support for the moving and handling lead working autonomously in the absence of the moving and handling lead, managing the manual handling team and co-ordinate activities in the promotion of a healthy workplace by educating staff and implementing change to minimise the risk of injury from manual handling tasks. To Deputise/support for the moving and handling lead in planning, delivering, and evaluating moving and handling training programmes Trust wide. Including departmental bespoke programmes as required supporting effective management practice and increasing workforce productivity. Facilitating the Trust in achieving its Health and Safety strategy. To actively maintain a professional moving and handling advisory service across the Trust and provide specialist advice in relation to moving and handling, in the absence of the MH lead for all clinical and non-clinical staff. Reporting back to the MH lead as appropriate. To actively promote a healthy workplace by educating staff and implementing change to minimise the risk of injury from Manual Handling of loads and people, static postures, and repetitive activities. To advise managers and staff Trust wide on the implementation and maintenance of a safer handling policy ensuring we are working within the framework of the national back exchange and meeting legislative requirements reporting back to Moving and Handling lead as appropriate. Work as a senior part of the moving and handling team in providing specialist advice in relation to bariatric patients, including purchase of equipment, liaising with appropriate teams e.g. Tissue viability, infection control. To Deliver key priority education and training as part of the wider team with the Multi trainers as required e.g. to support Trust corporate induction. Must be flexible to the needs of the Department of Professional Healthcare Education and the organisation, be able to adapt to change in educational requirements. Including increased activity or change of skill delivery. Will be required to travel between training centres and main hospital site as well as travel to off site areas. FFor further details please see attached JD&PS.