Assistant Manual Handling Advisor
Band 5
Main area
Manual Handling
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
287-CEF-220-25
Department name
LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)
Site
All Sites
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/08/2025 23:59
Job Overview
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.
Main duties of the job
- 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.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
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.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- Deliver manual handling induction and update training.
- Deliver specialist manual handling training as and when appropriate.
- Assist with revision and updating of manual handling training packs
- To be responsible for own personal education and development and take every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge.
- To ensure that best practice is disseminated, and areas of weakness are highlighted across Divisions.
- Successfully challenging/influencing the attitudes, behaviours, entrenched beliefs of staff and patients in relation to moving and handling.
- Supporting clinical areas with bariatric patient and other complex care planning scenarios where solutions are required
- To promote manual handling across the Trust.
- Assist Manual Handling Advisor/Coordinator in ensuring that the Trust meets all its statutory requirements in respect to manual handling.
- Identify situations that require to be escalated to manual handling advisors
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HND/Foundation Degree in relevant subject area or equivalent experience
- Accredited Safer People Handling Course, ROSPA or equivalent, or the willingness to gain within first 3 months in post
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of teaching/sharing knowledge relating to manual handling within an NHS environment on a 1:1 basis or in a group setting
- Recent relevant clinical experience in a healthcare setting
- Experience in the role of manual handling cascade trainer or similar
- Substantial clinical experience in a healthcare setting
- Knowledge of applicable Manual Handling Health and Safety legislation
Desirable criteria
- Has experience of undertaking manual handling risk assessments
- Demonstrable experience of manual handling training at induction and refresher level in NHS environment
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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