Overview
The post holder will support the Moving and Handling advisor to provide a Moving and Handling service to all staff in the organization according to Trust policies, procedures, guidelines and legislation.
Responsibilities
* The post holder will deliver, monitor, and evaluate moving and handling training sessions, giving expert advice and guidance to staff on the moving and handling of people and objects in order to improve patient care and reduce clinical risk.
* The post holder will contribute to and independently complete patient specific moving and handling risk assessments, as well as staff specific ergonomic workplace and workstation risk assessments.
* The post-holder will support the development of the moving and handling service by completing audits of manual handling equipment and of staff practices with the aim to reduce manual handling incidents and injuries and contribute to improved staff and patient safety.
* The post holder will be given support from the Whittington Health Moving and Handling Advisor to develop within the role; however the post holder will be expected to work with level of individual and professional autonomy.
* Finally, the post holder must be able to proactively develop their skills within the field of moving and handling through continued professional development opportunities.
* Deliver mandatory M&H Training sessions on safe patient handling, at induction and refresher level, to clinical staff across all areas of Whittington Health in line with the training needs analysis.
* Assess staff M&H competencies during training sessions and identify M&H risks within the workplace, use skills in risk assessment, clinical reasoning and problem-solving to apply safer handling principles, recommend equipment, techniques or other solutions appropriate to that setting and to differentiate/adapt training accordingly.
* Complete staff specific ergonomic workplace M&H risk assessments and ergonomic workstation (Display Screen Equipment) risk assessments, as and when required.
* Complete patient specific M&H risk assessments and provide advice within the clinical environment about the appropriate equipment and/or handling technique, as and when required.
Diversity and Equal Opportunity
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ash Purran Job title: Lead Nurse for Clinical Development Email address: ash.purran@nhs.net Telephone number: 02072885803
Stavroulla Pavlou
Moving and Handling Lead
s.pavlou@nhs.net
0207 288 5091
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