We are excited to be supporting the development of this new role within the Trust as a Moving and Handling Trainer. This post offers opportunities to develop and use your skills in delivering high-quality moving and handling training across clinical and non-clinical settings, helping staff to work safely and confidently.
Within the Trust, we are committed to providing safe, professional, and supportive working environments for both patients and staff.
Our training is wide-ranging and essential to maintaining safe working practices across the organisation. We are well regarded for our focus on reducing musculoskeletal injuries, promoting safe handling techniques, and ensuring the safety, dignity, and wellbeing of everyone we work with. The post holder will play a key role in supporting a culture of safety and compliance with mandatory training requirements, while contributing to the ongoing development of staff skills and confidence.
Responsibilities
You will be working alongside teams to provide high‑quality, evidence‑based moving and handling training across clinical and non‑clinical settings. You will deliver education to staff, demonstrating safe handling techniques for both people and equipment, and support them to develop skills that reduce the risk of injury and promote patient and staff safety.
You will be expected to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills, alongside practical, educational, and administrative duties. You will be an integral part of the Trust’s moving & handling training team and contribute to the wider safety and compliance agenda.
You will be motivated to make a positive difference by supporting safe working practices, helping staff gain confidence in handling tasks, and ensuring that training translates into improved safety for patients, colleagues, and others across the organisation.
Qualifications & Competencies
Required skills include excellent communication and organisational abilities, practical teaching experience in moving and handling, and the ability to demonstrate safe handling techniques to staff.
Eligibility & Visa Requirements
As per Home Office guidelines, the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular position.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full-time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, if you are a Student visa holder, you will not be able to offer a full-time permanent contract unless you have:
* applied for a Graduate visa
* or you have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
* or the Trust has agreed that they will sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
Benefits
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on‑site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose‑created colleague‑only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work‑life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part‑time working, job‑share, term‑time working and flexible start and finish times.
Equal Opportunity & Diversity
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
We look forward to welcoming you to our Moving and Handling Training Team.
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