Moving and Handling Lead

3 weeks ago


Plymouth, United Kingdom University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Full time

There is an exciting opportunity to join the Department of Professional Healthcare Education as the Moving and Handling Lead.

The Moving and Handling Lead post is both an exciting and challenging role. The role will appeal to an experienced and motivated individual with demonstrable experience in moving and handling and ergonomics, who is driven to develop the role.

You must have excellent communications skills, commitment to working flexibly and effectively. You will work with the wider Risk Management Team, managers and leads across the organisation and support a safe environment for our patients and staff. You must have an awareness of current health and social care issues that affect both community and inpatient care for adults.

**Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.**

To lead the Moving & Handling service, providing expert/specialist advice across the organisation, on the implementation and maintenance of safer moving & handling policies and practice.

To lead the Physical Intervention (PI) Training Team to ensure they meet the training requirements of the trust and national standards.

Manage the moving & handling team and PI training team to co-ordinate activities in the promotion of a healthy workplace by educating staff and implementing change to minimise the risk of injury from moving & handling and PI tasks.

Design & Co-ordinate all training relating to moving and handling including speciality areas such as bariatric and spinal injuries - to ensure that the Trust remains compliant with national standards & regulations on moving & handling training and best practice.

Provide information and professional advice to support the Trust to meet national standards and legislative requirements and advise the Trust on compliance in relation to moving & handling.

To lead the PI training team to deliver the training required under the PI leads.

Lead on the developments, implementation and audit of the Trust’s Safer Moving & Handling Policy - working with others involved in the care of patients in hospital, management of medical devices and staff health & well-being.

Provide effective operational and strategic leadership for the development and delivery of care for all patients, of all ages across the acute Trust, to encompass the planning, education and training for the safe moving and handling in line with national guidance, the Human Rights Framework, Moving and Handling legislation and understand how the Use of Force Act should be supported for PI trainers.

Provide strategic advice and support Trust wide to facilitate an effective programme of risk management Moving and Handling.

Provide expert advice, guidance and support to UHPNT regarding Moving and Handling interventions: policies, procedures, guidelines, and audit and incident analysis.

Design audit programmes as necessary to facilitate the Trust to benchmark their own arrangements and services regarding moving and Handling activities and PI training in relation to national standards and guidelines.

Produce reports for the Health and Safety Committee in line with their terms of reference.

Provide audit on training and compliance to the trust Physical Intervention leads.

To advise on appropriate governance, audit and risk management with regards to Moving and Handling


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