Main area Nursing & Quality Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday). Job ref 380-SS0698.
Employer: Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust – Site: St Martins Hospital, Canterbury. Salary: £31,049 – £37,796 per annum. Closing: 30/10/2025 23:59.
Moving & Handling Facilitator – Band 5
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
We offer flexible working arrangements. Speak to us about how we might accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Job overview
Please note, at this stage the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board.
We are looking for a Band 5 Moving & Handling Facilitator to join our busy team based at St Martins Hospital in Canterbury. The base is negotiable.
You will be responsible for delivering manual handling courses, providing advice and guidance to meet the needs of staff at all levels within the Trust. Promote legal compliance with the Manual Handling Operations Regulations, Lifting Equipment Regulations and the Provisions of Use of Work Equipment Regulations.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
You will be required to wear a uniform, which will be provided.
Main duties of the job
Communicate and work with others to ensure staff have access to suitable training, documentation and support, to conduct handling tasks according to the Trust Safer Handling Policy and supportive legislation.
Liaise with own team, team managers and company representatives to ensure equipment is modern, in a safe condition and appropriate for the task and patient ability. Work flexibly to ensure training schedules match recruitment rate peaks when required. Conduct oneself with positivity, the highest example demonstrating daily the team commitment to safety, dignity, comfort and respect for all.
Working for our organisation
We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC.
Our vision: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. We are passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. We are guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us – if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Face to Face with practical
* Educated to Degree/diploma level and evidence of CPD relevant to current role. Evidence of continuing professional development IT Skills (Word, Excel, Power Point, Teams) or equivalent level of skill acquired through experience and further training/development.
* Previous experience working in healthcare environment. Working Knowledge of Manual Handling Operations Regulations 92’ Experience of influencing change at award and department level. Involvement in the education and training of others. Proven track record in supporting change in organisational policy and practice. Recent professional experience in an Acute or Community Trust. Ability to provide evidence of facilitating learning in practice.
* ROSPA BTEC Level 3 in safer people handling Teaching/Mentoring qualification and update PTTLS Level 3.
* Membership of governing body such as NBE.
* Teaching experience in a link worker role to Healthcare colleagues with client facing tasks.
* Experience working with children and adolescents.
Face to face with practical
* NHS experience patient handling role.
In cases where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, it may be necessary to bring the closing date forward. Please submit your completed application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications received, it is not possible to respond individually to your application. Should you not hear from us within six weeks of the vacancy closing, please assume that your application has not been successful.
Probation Period. New employees external to the trust are subject to a six-month probationary period.
To deliver an effective service it is essential in some of our roles that you are able to travel between work bases in a timely manner.
Production of false or forged documents/qualifications in order to obtain employment is a criminal offence and will be reported to the Police.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check. Certain roles are subject to criminal record checks called Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. Therefore, you will be required to submit a completed Disclosure form to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust are signed up to NHS England's Sexual Safety in Health Care Organisational Charter. The trust takes a systematic zero-tolerance approach to tackle any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours within the workplace and in our care provision. We are committed to sexual safety which encompasses prevention, support and decisive action against perpetrators. We are committed to keeping you and our patients safe.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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