Moving and Handling Advisor

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Full time

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our Health and Safety team as Moving and Handling Advisor.

This post presents an excellent opportunity to work across the organisation, assist in the implementation of a health and safety strategy, responsible for the delivery of moving & handling services and ensure compliance with health and safety legislation within the Trust.

The post holder will be responsible for the improvement of moving and handling compliance across the Trust by acting as a source of expert advice, support and guidance on reducing moving and handling risks to staff and service users and will ensure a consistent, coordinated and optimised approach to safe moving and handling within the Trust.

The post holder will be required to lead and develop the Trusts Moving & Handling policy to ensure that effective, safe, and modern techniques are practiced across all services provided by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

Working with the Health and Safety Manager, the post holder will provide leadership to the development and implementation of effective risk management strategies and health and safety policies across the Trust. With significant responsibility for developing and embedding a risk-based culture, the post holder will engage effectively with clinical and non-clinical colleagues, senior managers and key stakeholders to ensure effective health and safety management systems and processes are in place and are utilised to identify, manage and mitigate all levels of risk.

The post holder should have recognised qualifications in Moving & Handling and have experience in training or education. The post holder will work closely with the Health & Safety Manager and colleagues in the wider Health & Safety Team to ensure that staff are adequately trained and supported.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development

Widening access (anchor institution) and employability

Improving the experience of staff with disability

Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development

Making equalities mainstream

The post holder will be responsible for the improvement of moving and handling compliance across the Trust by acting as a source of expert advice, support and guidance on reducing moving and handling risks to staff and service users and will ensure a consistent, coordinated and optimised approach to safe moving and handling within the Trust by:

- Planning and delivery of the Trust’s mandatory moving and handling training programme designed to meet the needs of the overall system, the individual cohort, and the service users.
- Lead on and drive a preventative approach to reduce musculoskeletal injuries, by ensuring the provision and delivery of moving & handling training to all staff groups, providing ergonomic, moving & handling risk assessments to staff. In their undertaking of the assessment of complex moving and handling risks and the development safe systems of work.
- On risk reduction measures for individuals with reduced capabilities as identified by Occupational Health Service or other medical professionals.
- Completing audits and monitoring of moving and handling activities in line with Trust policy.

The post holder will be required to lead and develop the Trusts Moving & Handling policy to ensure that effective, safe, and modern techniques are practiced across all services provided by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

The post holder will be responsible for the commissioning and procurement of moving and handling equipment and accessories for the Trust, including the responsibility for selecting suppliers considering cost, quality, delivery time, reliability and ensuring a suitable maintenance routine as per legal requirements.

The post holder will be required to work closely not only with staff on the wards but also with the Trusts health and safety department to ensure the trust is compliant with current statute and CQC standards requirements.
- To ensure a consistent, coordinated approach to safe moving and handling within all the Trust.
- To develop and facilitate the delivery of a comprehensive training programme which will promote safe moving and handling and a safe health environment for staff and patients.
- The post holder will be re
- sponsible for maintaining and developing the in-house training logs for all moving and ha

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