Assistant Manual Handling Advisor
Location
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/12/2025
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Description
Are you passionate about safe patient handling and supporting best practice in clinical settings? We are excited to offer an opportunity to join our dedicated team as a Band 5 Assistant Manual Handling Advisor.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in patient handling and clinical care, but also someone who is keen to develop in other areas of moving and handling supporting and advising colleagues in non-clinical areas. You will work alongside our Manual Handling Advisors to promote safe moving and handling practices across the organisation, supporting staff through training, assessments and hands on guidance.
The Manual Handling Team provide a broad range of information and support to clinicians in the handling of patients with complex needs alongside best practices, providing advice to all staff in the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal conditions.
The post holder will be required to liaise with a wide range of healthcare professionals within the organisation and much be confident and competent when liaising with staff of various abilities and will be expected to deliver Moving and Handling training within a classroom environment and in clinical areas.
The Manual Handling Team work on multiple sites and the post holder must be able to travel/work between sites.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Elaine Watkins or Sharon Bretherton Job title: Manual Handling Team Telephone number: 0151 706 3814
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in patient handling and clinical care, but also someone who is keen to develop in other areas of moving and handling supporting and advising colleagues in non-clinical areas. You will work alongside our Manual Handling Advisors to promote safe moving and handling practices across the organisation, supporting staff through training, assessments and hands on guidance.
The Manual Handling Team provide a broad range of information and support to clinicians in the handling of patients with complex needs alongside best practices, providing advice to all staff in the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal conditions.
The post holder will be required to liaise with a wide range of healthcare professionals within the organisation and much be confident and competent when liaising with staff of various abilities and will be expected to deliver Moving and Handling training within a classroom environment and in clinical areas.
The Manual Handling Team work on multiple sites and the post holder must be able to travel/work between sites.
- Assist in the delivery of manual handling training sessions for clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Support risk assessments and audits related to patient handling.
- Provide on-the-spot advice and coaching in clinical areas.
- Contribute to the development and review of manual handling policies and procedures.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to promote a culture of safety and continuous improvement.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Elaine Watkins or Sharon Bretherton Job title: Manual Handling Team Telephone number: 0151 706 3814
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