Lead Moving and Handling Coordinator - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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An exciting and rare opportunity has risen to join and lead our moving and handling team at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust.

We are looking for a dynamic and innovative person to join and lead our team of experienced multi-disciplinary staff. The service works alongside and supports staff working across acute and community sites.

  • Interview Date 14/12/2 37 Hours 30 Minutes Per a Week


Newcastle Hospitals encourages all staff and volunteers who are appointed to join the Trust to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.


To provide leadership to the Trust's moving and handlings service, contributing to the reduction of work-related musculoskeletal injury and moving and handling accidents across all staff groups and ensuring the Trust's compliance with statutory legislation.


Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.


Rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country.

This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
- represented groups.

  • To provide a high standard of clinical assessment and care to noncomplex, complex and highly complex patients within specialty evidencing highlevel problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement in moving and handling
  • To provide an Assessment Service to support staff referred through Occupational Health for workplace assessments and provision of specialist chairs, desking and hardware to meet individual needs
  • The Advanced practitioner will be a highly specialist practitioner and is the clinical lead for the moving and handling Service providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust to health care professionals.


As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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