Moving and Handling Advisor

Nightingale Hammerson; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-regarded care facility in London seeks an experienced Moving and Handling Advisor. In this role, you will deliver training to care teams and conduct assessments, focusing on providing the highest level of care to older residents. The ideal candidate will possess strong teaching skills and experience in manual handling within the healthcare sector. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on residents' lives, contributing to rehabilitation and improved quality of life.

Qualifications

• Experience working with older individuals in care settings.
• Experience teaching clinical practice and manual handling.
• Experience with individuals diagnosed with dementia.

Responsibilities

• Deliver moving and handling training to care teams.
• Support teams with moving and handling activities.
• Conduct complex moving and handling assessments.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for service development.

Skills

Facilitating learning

Advanced communication skills

Manual handling techniques

Team collaboration

Supporting frail residents

Education

Appropriate teaching qualification

RoSPA's Level 3 award in Manual Handling Trainers

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Moving and Handling advisor, with an interest in working with older people, to join our established and well‑regarded in‑house Therapy team at Nightingale Hammerson. We're a diverse, friendly team who are passionate about delivering exceptional services for our Jewish Residents across a full spectrum of needs through a relationship‑centred care framework and within a palliative care model.

What makes this job special? Simply, our Residents inspire us every day.

Your role will be split between delivering moving and handling training to our care teams, supporting teams on the households with moving and handling activities, carrying out complex moving and handling assessments, working as part of a multidisciplinary team and introducing service development initiatives and innovation. You'll work holistically with a keen interest in our equipment and establish effective relationships with our external stakeholders.

You’ll have time to get to know and work collaboratively with our Residents implementing rehabilitation programmes and optimising functional ability to improve quality of life. Put simply, you will make a difference.

Our ideal candidate will be skilled in facilitating learning, supporting residents with complex needs using a range of skills and techniques, using advanced communication skills and strategies to support engagement and being confident with supporting Residents who may be frail and living with a range of medical conditions until the end of their lives. We particularly also welcome candidates with an interest in 24‑hour postural support and MDT working around seating and positioning. This role offers a mix of leadership opportunities including delivering training as well as hands‑on face‑to‑face time.

If you:

• Have a passion for working with older people
• Want time to truly get to know our Residents and follow through your interventions using a wide range of clinical skills
• Want to work in a supportive team with plenty of opportunities to develop
• Be part of an organisation that hosts an annual, international care home research forum and has a REACH platform to support people to live at home well and has recently co‑published articles on proportionate care
• Lives to the values of compassion, respect, excellence, dignity, integrity and teamwork

Education and Qualification:

• Appropriate teaching qualification and/or significant experience in being a manual handling trainer.
• Higher Level of training in Manual Handling, for example, RoSPA's Level 3 award in Manual Handling Trainers. (Completing a train‑the‑trainer qualification will not be enough on its own.)

Experience

• Experience of working with older people living in a care setting
• Experience of working with people with dementia
• Significant experience of manual handling practice and training others in manual handling
• Experience of working within the U.K. Healthcare or social care system
• Experience of teaching in clinical practice

At Nightingale Hammerson, we are proud to provide exceptional residential and nursing care to the Jewish community in London. With a history spanning over 180 years, our values of Compassion, Respect, Excellence, Dignity, Integrity, and Teamwork underpin everything we do.