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Manual Handling Facilitator - 27 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of a Manual Handling Facilitator within Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking to recruit a confident and competent trainer to help facilitate the manual handling training delivery to our workforce. You must be enthusiastic, motivated, adaptable and team orientated. You will work within the larger Clinical Training Team. The post holder will be expected to deliver and monitor programmes of manual handling education and training to all disciplines and grades of staff within the Trust. This will include the training/development of staff in a classroom setting as well as 
training and support within the work place.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience as a Manual Handling Key Trainer, be capable of working without direct supervision and ensure a high standard of care for all patients by effective manual handling and promotion of best practice for clinical and non-clinical staff. They will also be involved in audits around manual handling, equipment reviews and service development. The successful candidate is required to be able to demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and the person specification.

Main duties of the job

·         Support the manual handling officer in the design, delivery and evaluation of manual handling programmes- including induction in relation to safe moving and handling, in accordance with Trust and national priorities

·         Deliver, manual handling and associated equipment training and basic life support training in line with the Trust training plans and according to Trust requirements

·         To actively maintain a professional manual handling and equipment advisory service across the Trust providing specialist advice for all clinical and non-clinical staff as required

·         To assist with the promotion of a healthy workplace by educating staff and implementing change to minimise the risk of injury from the moving and handling of loads and people, static postures and repetitive activities.

·         To utilise and encourage problem solving approaches to create a learning environment in which staff can achieve their learning objectives

Working for our organisation

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners. 

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate: 

• Safety 
• Care 
• Respect 
• Communication 
• Learning 

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. 

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people. 

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.