Job summary
Are you passionate about safe patient handling and supporting best practice in clinical settings? We are excited to offer an opportunity to join our dedicated team as a Band 5 Assistant Manual Handling Advisor.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in patient handling and clinical care, but also someone who is keen to develop in other areas of moving and handling supporting and advising colleagues in non-clinical areas. You will work alongside our Manual Handling Advisors to promote safe moving and handling practices across the organisation, supporting staff through training, assessments and hands on guidance.
The Manual Handling Team provide a broad range of information and support to clinicians in the handling of patients with complex needs alongside best practices, providing advice to all staff in the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal conditions.
The post holder will be required to liaise with a wide range of healthcare professionals within the organisation and much be confident and competent when liaising with staff of various abilities and will be expected to deliver Moving and Handling training within a classroom environment and in clinical areas.
The Manual Handling Team work on multiple sites and the post holder must be able to travel/work between sites.
Main duties of the job
- Assist in the delivery of manual handling training sessions for clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Support risk assessments and audits related to patient handling.
- Provide on-the-spot advice and coaching in clinical areas.
- Contribute to the development and review of manual handling policies and procedures.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to promote a culture of safety and continuous improvement.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Deliver manual handling induction and update training.
- Deliver specialist manual handling training as and when appropriate.
- Assist with revision and updating of manual handling training packs
- To be responsible for own personal education and development and take every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge.
- To ensure that best practice is disseminated, and areas of weakness are highlighted across Divisions.
- Successfully challenging/influencing the attitudes, behaviours, entrenched beliefs of staff and patients in relation to moving and handling.
- Supporting clinical areas with bariatric patient and other complex care planning scenarios where solutions are required
- To promote manual handling across the Trust.
- Assist Manual Handling Advisor/Coordinator in ensuring that the Trust meets all its statutory requirements in respect to manual handling.
- Identify situations that require to be escalated to manual handling advisors
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Deliver manual handling induction and update training.
- Deliver specialist manual handling training as and when appropriate.
- Assist with revision and updating of manual handling training packs
- To be responsible for own personal education and development and take every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge.
- To ensure that best practice is disseminated, and areas of weakness are highlighted across Divisions.
- Successfully challenging/influencing the attitudes, behaviours, entrenched beliefs of staff and patients in relation to moving and handling.
- Supporting clinical areas with bariatric patient and other complex care planning scenarios where solutions are required
- To promote manual handling across the Trust.
- Assist Manual Handling Advisor/Coordinator in ensuring that the Trust meets all its statutory requirements in respect to manual handling.
- Identify situations that require to be escalated to manual handling advisors
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HND/Foundation Degree in relevant subject area or equivalent experience
- Accredited Safer People Handling Course, ROSPA or equivalent, or the willingness to gain within first 3 months in post
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of teaching/sharing knowledge relating to manual handling within an NHS environment on a 1:1 basis or in a group setting
- Recent relevant clinical experience in a healthcare setting
- Experience in the role of manual handling cascade trainer or similar
- Substantial clinical experience in a healthcare setting
- Knowledge of applicable Manual Handling Health and Safety legislation
Desirable
- Has experience of undertaking manual handling risk assessments
- Demonstrable experience of manual handling training at induction and refresher level in NHS environment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HND/Foundation Degree in relevant subject area or equivalent experience
- Accredited Safer People Handling Course, ROSPA or equivalent, or the willingness to gain within first 3 months in post
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of teaching/sharing knowledge relating to manual handling within an NHS environment on a 1:1 basis or in a group setting
- Recent relevant clinical experience in a healthcare setting
- Experience in the role of manual handling cascade trainer or similar
- Substantial clinical experience in a healthcare setting
- Knowledge of applicable Manual Handling Health and Safety legislation
Desirable
- Has experience of undertaking manual handling risk assessments
- Demonstrable experience of manual handling training at induction and refresher level in NHS environment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
