Job summary
We are excited to offer a unique opportunity for an experienced professional to join our team as the Advanced Moving and Handling & Inpatient Falls Prevention Facilitator. This role is crucial in delivering high-quality, evidence-based training in falls prevention and advanced moving and handling across OPAC services.
You will play a key role in developing, implementing, and reviewing training programs, ensuring alignment with national guidelines and promoting patient safety.
*This post is open for consideration of a Job Share.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and deliver falls prevention and advanced moving and handling training, maintaining current best practices.
- Partner with Operational Leads to promote best practices across wards, reducing falls and improving patient safety.
Work alongside Occupational Therapists to address community moving and handling needs effectively
This position offers enhanced training and professional development opportunities in these critical areas. If this sounds like a post you are interested in, give us a call we are happy to discuss the opportunity further.
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- Lead and deliver falls prevention and advanced moving and handling training, maintaining current best practices.
- Partner with Operational Leads to promote best practices across wards, reducing falls and improving patient safety.
- Work alongside Occupational Therapists to address community moving and handling needs effectively.
- Significant experience in falls prevention and moving and handling in a healthcare setting.
- Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- This position offers enhanced training and professional development opportunities in these critical areas. If this sounds like a post you are interested in, give us a call we are happy to discuss the opportunity further
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- Lead and deliver falls prevention and advanced moving and handling training, maintaining current best practices.
- Partner with Operational Leads to promote best practices across wards, reducing falls and improving patient safety.
- Work alongside Occupational Therapists to address community moving and handling needs effectively.
- Significant experience in falls prevention and moving and handling in a healthcare setting.
- Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- This position offers enhanced training and professional development opportunities in these critical areas. If this sounds like a post you are interested in, give us a call we are happy to discuss the opportunity further
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC/HCPC Registration
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- Management, leadership qualification.
- Post registration qualification specific to specialism
- PGCE or teaching qualification
- Relevant professional networks
Experinace
Essential
- Leadership experience.
- Significant experience in falls prevention
- Significant experience in Advanced Moving and Handling
- Experience of managing workload and ability to prioritise
- Effective resource management skills
- Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
- Experience of managing change
- Experience of delivering quality and service improvement
Desirable
- Evidence of both Inpatient and community experience in Speciality
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Advanced understanding of clinical conditions in specialist area
- Knowledge of National and International guidelines relating to specialist areas
- Demonstrates knowledge of legislation relevant to specialist areas
- Excellent written/oral communication and presentation skills
- Self motivated
- Able to work autonomously
- Able to lead, influence and empower others
- Able to work under pressure and towards deadlines
- Able to teach staff in educational contexts
- Able to adapt teaching style to meet the needs of learners
- Commitment to developing evidenced based practice
- Proficient IT skills including the ability to develop and manage databases, develop and deliver reports and presentations
Desirable
- Experience in audit
- Ability to apply research findings
- Experience of managing feedback, investigation of complaints or similar
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
- Recognises the limits of own role.
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
- Understands the principle of confidentiality.
- Demonstrates professional curiosity
- Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
- Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress
- Can demonstrate flexibility of approach
- Demonstrates insight into personal strengths and areas for development
- oShows a realistic appreciation of the challenges of working with vulnerable adults
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel across the County (sometimes at short notice
- Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC/HCPC Registration
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- Management, leadership qualification.
- Post registration qualification specific to specialism
- PGCE or teaching qualification
- Relevant professional networks
Experinace
Essential
- Leadership experience.
- Significant experience in falls prevention
- Significant experience in Advanced Moving and Handling
- Experience of managing workload and ability to prioritise
- Effective resource management skills
- Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
- Experience of managing change
- Experience of delivering quality and service improvement
Desirable
- Evidence of both Inpatient and community experience in Speciality
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Advanced understanding of clinical conditions in specialist area
- Knowledge of National and International guidelines relating to specialist areas
- Demonstrates knowledge of legislation relevant to specialist areas
- Excellent written/oral communication and presentation skills
- Self motivated
- Able to work autonomously
- Able to lead, influence and empower others
- Able to work under pressure and towards deadlines
- Able to teach staff in educational contexts
- Able to adapt teaching style to meet the needs of learners
- Commitment to developing evidenced based practice
- Proficient IT skills including the ability to develop and manage databases, develop and deliver reports and presentations
Desirable
- Experience in audit
- Ability to apply research findings
- Experience of managing feedback, investigation of complaints or similar
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
- Recognises the limits of own role.
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
- Understands the principle of confidentiality.
- Demonstrates professional curiosity
- Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
- Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress
- Can demonstrate flexibility of approach
- Demonstrates insight into personal strengths and areas for development
- oShows a realistic appreciation of the challenges of working with vulnerable adults
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel across the County (sometimes at short notice
- Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
