Manual Handling Team leader | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE1 5WW |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7277244/358-7277244-COR |
Summary
Manual Handling Service LeadUHL Trust | Leicester, UK
Are you ready to take the lead in shaping safe and effective manual handling practices across UHL? We’re looking for a dynamic registered professional to drive innovation, ensure compliance, and champion best practices in patient and staff safety.
Your Impact
As a trusted specialist, you’ll provide expert moving and handling advice, training, and support to teams across the Trust. Your leadership will directly influence the health, safety, and welfare of employees, patients, contractors, and stakeholders, ensuring manual handling operations are carried out safely and efficiently.
Why You?
You’re a forward-thinking leader with expertise in manual handling, risk assessment, and service development. With strong communication skills and a proactive approach, you'll drive positive change and uphold the highest safety standards.
Join us and make a lasting impact on patient and staff well-being.
Key Responsibilities
• Strategic Leadership:Oversee the Manual Handling Service, ensuring a high standard of service delivery.
• Bariatric Care Innovation:Continue developing a sustainable Bariatric Service that benefits both the Trust and the wider health community.
• Operational Excellence:Collaborate with the UHL Bed and Equipment Management Team to optimise patient care and resource utilization.
• Data-Driven Decision Making:Analyse and interpret data to produce governance reports, ensuring compliance and informed strategic planning.
• Training & Development:Design and deliver specialist training programs that empower staff and enhance patient outcomes.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
Main responsibilities:
Support and Manage the Manual Handling Advisors and administrative team
Plan and evaluate Moving and Handling Training
Lead and support the bariatric workstream
Support, as required the UHL Bed and equipment contract
Write and present data and reports, as required, to summarise team performance against agreed KPI's
Have oversight of staff referrals all Musculoskeletal disorders
Manage datix incidences related to Musculoskeletal disorders / Moving and handling incidents
Oversee contract tenders for all identified moving and handling related equipment
This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025