Trainer in Safe Handling Practices and Clinical Facilitator

This post requires you to share and develop new and existing experience, skills and knowledge in this field to enhance the clinical practice and competency of staff in safe handling practices across the Trust.

Working alongside the Specialist Nurse Practitioner in Back Care in a small and supportive, friendly team, you will be dedicated to providing an expert service for staff and patients in all aspects of evidenced based safe handling practice, across all clinical and non-clinical areas of the Trust.

You will deliver regular and effective, fully inclusive and adapted educational and training courses across the Trust and work alongside staff in all areas to enhance and promote safe handling practices. In addition, you will also afford expert practical advice, complete training needs analysis, undertake audits, complete ergonomic display screen assessments with staff, evaluate the impact of training, undertake clinical reviews and work with staff and patients with complex moving, handling and positional needs., To provide fully inclusive and adapted education and training on handling practices to all staff groups.

Provide bespoke specialised training courses to specific staff groups showing flexibility in the delivery of training, which will be based on the assessment of need identified in a training needs analysis or following an individual assessment

Complete formative assessments with course delegates during training courses to enhance safe practice and aid the summative assessment against a competency assurance framework

Work with staff and patients in all clinical areas across Epsom and St Helier Hospitals to monitor, supervise and implement current safe handling practices

Deliver effective and training courses for all staff groups that are required to undertake handling practices of patients and inanimate loads as part of their job role related activities. Communicating knowledge and general information in a manner which learners can understand,

Demonstrate the ability to implement adapted learning to meet the different learning styles and outcomes of all individuals presenting for training to guarantee inclusive learning

Encourage participation and cooperation of all learners as changes in practice may be required. Use of persuasive, motivational and negotiating skills with the knowledge that some information may be sensitive or contentious, At gesh we are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements. Applicants are encouraged to discuss any flexibility they may need during the recruitment process.

We are looking for a committed and motivated clinically trained person who has a keen interest in training and developing best practice and an enthusiasm for safe handling practices. You will have highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, a strong work ethic and a commitment to research and evidence-based practice.

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.