Caernarfon Area Manual Handling Assessor

3 weeks ago

Caernarfon, United Kingdom Gwynedd Council Full time

Job title:
Caernarfon Area Manual Handling Assessor

Directorate:
Adults, Health and Well-being

Service:
Adults

Closing date:
02/02/2023 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Permanent | 29.6 Hour

Salary:
£28,352 - £29,808 a year

Pay Scale:
PS1

Location(s):
Caernarfon

**Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this [**Information Pack**]**

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

For further information about this post please contact Sian Ceri Le Bon on 01286 679 099

Interviews to be carried out, date to be confirmed.

**Please note that the use of Welsh language is desirable for this post.**

Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH

Tel: 01286 679076

**CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, THURSDAY, 02.02.2023**

**_

**Personal attributes**:
**Essential**:
Work in an antidiscriminatory manner

Is flexible and creative in problem solving

**Desirable**:
**Qualifications and relevant training**:
**Essential**:
Qualified Occupational Therapist or Allied Health Professional / Nurse

Registered with relevant professional body (HCPC) / NMC

Evidence of continuous professional development

Moving and handling qualification

**Desirable**:
BTEC- Train the trainer in Manual Handling or Equivalent

**Relevant experience**:
**Essential**:
Experience of working as an Occupational Therapist or Allied Health Professional / Registered Nurse

Experience of multidisciplinary working

Experience of conducting moving and handling assessments

**Desirable**:
Experience of working in Local Authority

**Skills and specialist knowledge**:
**Essential**:
Full driving license

Experience of assessing needs of individuals and manage risks effectively

Dedicated in promoting people’s independence within their own homes.

Can plan, monitor and review the needs of individuals

Understand the needs of individuals and their carers.

Effective communicator (verbal and written)

Can work independently and as part of a team

Good time keeping skills. Can work under pressure and prioritise effectively.

Can contribute to planning and developing the service

Good IT skills

**Desirable**:
Experience of implementing right size care.

Experience of training clients, family and care staff in the use of a range of manual handling equipment.

**Language requirements**:
**Essential**:
**Listening and Speaking - Higher Level**:
Able to follow a conversation or discussion through the medium of Welsh and English on a professional level and discuss general day to day topics in the field in order to present information and express opinions.Able to give a pre-prepared presentation and respond to any comments and questions on it in Welsh or English.

**Reading and Understanding - Higher Level**:
Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.Able to gather information from various sources such as letters, reports, articles through the medium of Welsh and English in order to fulfil the post.

**Writing - Higher Level**:
Present written information confidently by letter, more detailed and technical report formats, and respond to written requests conveying information, ideas and opinion in Welsh and English (help is available to check the work).

**Purpose of the post**:
“To enable me to live my life as I want to live it”.
- Assist vulnerable individuals to live their lives in the way they wish to live them.
- Undertake complex manual handling assessments and manual handling reviews, facilitate timely hospital discharge, promote right sized care, and provide the relevant training to individuals, their families and care staff.
- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the centre of everything we do.
- Assess the needs of the individual and their carers in accordance with the requirements of the Social Services and Well-being Act 2014 and other relevant legislation and guidelines.
- Provide an Information, Advice and Assistance service to citizens to enable them to meet their personal outcomes.
- Assist people to identify solutions, prevent dependency and promote independence
- Provide information about the support resources that are available in the community, from the third sector, the Council and the Health Board, to enable citizens to live as independently for as long as possible and to maximise their quality of life.
- Ensure that individuals' needs are met in accordance with the Council's safeguarding arrangements and statutory responsibilities.
- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.

**Responsibility for functions**:

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