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Manual Handling Co-ordinator
Full-time equivalent salary: £36,114 to £40,127 per annum + benefits
Description: Manual Handling Co-ordinator
Type: Permanent
Hours: Part-time (15 hours per week), 52 weeks
Location: Cheadle
Salary: Actual take home salary: £14,445 to £16,050 per annum + benefits
Come along to our recruitment open evening on Wednesday 12th March! This is a great opportunity for you to talk to our friendly team about our vacancies and have a tour of our wonderful campus. To join us, please arrive at 4pm, 5pm or 6pm. For more information call on 0161 610 0100.
About Seashell
Originally founded in 1823, Seashell Trust is a nationally recognised and registered charity based in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport. The trust consists of the Royal School Manchester (RSM), Royal College Manchester (RCM), 17 residential care homes, outreach, health and family services all based on one campus site. We provide care and education for children and young people (up to 25 years old) with severe, profound, and complex learning difficulties and disabilities, sensory impairment, communication disorders and autism.
Our vision is for the children and young people in our care to be safe, happy and to achieve the best possible outcomes so that they are valued and valuable members of their communities. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers at Seashell to share this commitment.
We are recruiting a manual handling practitioner to support across the whole organisation. The Manual Handling Co-ordinator will promote the safe handling and represent the organisation, in dealing in all manual handling situations, including legal situations.
We are recruiting this position on a part-time basis and although you will not be working more than 15 hours per week with no regular weekend and evening shifts, we are looking for someone who is able to offer some flexibility to work outside of normal hours as needed e.g. training night staff.
Key responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design, development and evaluation of manual handling policies, procedures, handling documentation and audit tools.
- Support the use of evidence-based risk assessments for complex handling situations.
- Identify and evaluate a range of handling equipment to meet the needs of the organisation.
- Design, deliver and evaluate a range of training programmes for staff to meet the need of the organisation.
- Contributes to the design, interpretation and resulting action plans from audits and accident investigations.
- Contribute to a positive health and safety culture within the Trust
About you…
- Professional membership registration e.g. HCPC, NMC or equivalent, with relevant qualification at degree standard.
- Prior experience of complex manual handling situations, preferably having attended a further Train the Trainer course or equivalent qualification.
- Willingness to attend further training as required and join the National Back Exchange if not already registered.
- Ideally you will have worked as a health care professional e.g. Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist or Nurse, specialising in manual handling.
- Significant hands-on experience of working with people with complex disabilities.
- Experience of contributing to risk assessments for children and young people with complex disabilities
- Ability to deliver presentations and coaching.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Our benefits:
You will have access to wide range of benefits including: Private medical, life assurance, employee assistance and wellbeing programmes, free parking, on site gym, long service awards, employee engagement forum and a beautiful campus with fantastic facilities all on one site.
We offer great career development, and with a strong, supportive L&D team based on site, you will have access to a wide range of training courses designed to support your development throughout your career.