Manual Handling Trainer | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Manual Handling Trainer to join our friendly team. We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated individual to join the Manual Handling Training team as a Manual Handling Trainer. This is a really good opportunity for a non-registered candidate with significant health care experience to be able to develop and grow into this role (e.g. Therapy Assistants and HCA's). You would provide face to face hands on practical 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. The Manual Handling trainer 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 prevention of harms to patients. The service operates across all Trust sites across Cheshire and Merseyside and also involves travelling to individual patient homes, therefore it is essential that the Manual Handling Trainer is able to travel to and from the wide variety of different locations as required for this role. Shortlisting planned for: 14 November 2024 Interview planned for: 22 November 2024 This is a practical training post, skills taught are hands on practical, and you will be involved in the physical aspects of moving people and objects on a daily basis. When not training you will support staff in the delivery of safe manual handling in patient care working alongside staff in clinical areas and home settings . Experience in moving and handling of people in a health care setting would be valuable. In addition to training, the post holder will be expected to support with undertaking audits, site visits and support with incident reviews. It is an interesting and varied role, with lots of opportunity for the right candidate to develop and progress., At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

• Deliver face to face training on manual handling
• Support clinical teams with complex manual handling cases
• Complete equipment audits
• Support with DSE and return to work assessments
• Maintain up to date knowledge of health and safety legislation, manual handling equipment and current best practice.
• Support with the completion of clinical audits, visiting sites to check what equipment is in place and following up where necessary to ensure repairs and maintenance is completed.
• Review incident data and support the Trust lead to develop action plans to address any concerns.
• Assist with return to work manual handling assessments.
• Engage with the wider Health and safety and clinical Skills teams, supporting where necessary.
  
  Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.