Manual Handling Advisor
Directorate: Lothian Occupational Health and Safety Service (LOHSS)
Post:
* Part-time 2 days per week (14.8 hours per week) between Monday to Friday. Note: Additional/temporary hours may be available at times on an ad hoc basis, at this site or other sites, to meet service delivery needs.
* Fixed-term contract for 2 years 6 months or secondment opportunity.
* Based at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP).
* Covering a variety of clinical, non-clinical, estates, and facilities job families and services across the RHCYP site, Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership, and the wider MHS/NHS Lothian.
We seek an experienced and dynamic registered clinical professional, AHP, or Nurse with a degree (or equivalent clinical qualification), and recent relevant clinical experience. The candidate should be highly motivated to contribute their specialist knowledge towards delivering our flexible MHS. Our service provides high-quality manual handling education, including onsite competency assessments, covering clinical, non-clinical, and estates and facilities staff groups.
The successful candidate will be an approachable professional, committed to continuous professional development, and promoting safer systems of work to enhance patient, client, and staff safety. The role requires strong skills in organization, flexibility, and planning.
A working knowledge of safer manual handling practices, ergonomics, and Human Factors (HFE) principles is essential. Our service offers development and education in these areas during induction and ongoing training.
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