Band 5 Manual Handling Educator Birmingham, England
Job description
Job summary
Are you well organised? Do you want to join a busy and unique team? Then we would love to hear from you!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Manual Handling Educator to join our team. You would provide training and education to all staff groups on moving and handling of patients and loads. Training includes mandatory, non-, mandatory, bespoke specialised training and onsite training sessions to specific staff groups. There will also be the opportunity to assist with provision of external training based on external sites.
The Manual Handling Educator will assist the service to promote musculoskeletal health at work and reduce injury. This will contribute to the health and wellbeing of staff at work and also prevention of harms to patients.
Good communication and interpersonal and training skills are essential for the post, which will be proactive in the delivery of support, advice and training to all staff groups within the Trust.
The service operates across all Trust sites and the team will be expected to travel to different locations for the start of their shift, including external sites, where their role requires them to do so.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated individual to join the Manual Handling and Ergonomics team as a Manual Handling Educator. You will work within a team, act as a role model, empower staff and promote best handling practice. This is an education role but the skills are practical, you will be involved in the physical aspects of moving people and objects on a regular basis.
The role includes working alongside staff on wards and departments to provide clinical support with the manual handling management of patients. Acute or community health care experience in moving and handling of people would be valuable. There will also be opportunity to work alongside non-clinical staff with inanimate object handling.
There are excellent opportunities for Learning and Development available in the Trust and the successful applicant will be well supported and encouraged to develop in their role with post graduate education requirements once established in post. Informal visits are encouraged.
If you have the necessary skills and abilities and would like to join our team we would love to hear from you. For further information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Samantha Blatherwick, Senior Manual Handling Educator (internal 17166 / external 0121 371 7166) or Susan Ryan, Training Lead, Clinical Nurse Specialist - Manual Handling (internal 17166 / external 0121 371 7166; mobile 07407 790006).
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
Job description
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
Health profession qualification (Nursing; Allied health professional (AHP); Ergonomist) or equivalent qualification
and/or
Education qualification (e.g., for education Level 4 Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CET) or higher).
and/or
Training / assessing / education qualification specific to Manual Handling (e.g., Equivalent to RoSPA/EDGE level 3 qualifications).
and/or
General education to A level standard (or equivalent).
Experience
Essential
Experience of working in healthcare and/or with dependent people/significant carer responsibilities.
Experience of practical patient/load manual handling.
Experience of delivering training/education.
Knowledge and experience of IT packages e.g. Microsoft (Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) Office 365/Teams.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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.
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.
