11 Oct
Oxford University Hospitals
Oxford
Job description
Job overview
- Assist the Back Care Advisors to reduce the incidence of muscular skeletal injury in specific areas of the Trust through supporting a bespoke programme of training, assessment, education and support.
- Use professional experience and subject knowledge to advise clinical staff in appropriate manual handling techniques for the speciality, acknowledging limitations and seeking support from the Back Care Advisors as required.
- Provide advice under guidance to departmental and clinical staff in manual handling situations through planned meetings or within local training sessions.
In clinical areas this involves discussions with clinical staff,
advising on generic patient assessment and the implementation of manual handling care plans.
- Keep abreast of clinical developments and research that will have implications for safe practice and to regularly visit clinical areas / National back exchange meetings to maintain awareness of current patient handling techniques.
- Be involved and support specialist manual handling practice by networking with other external manual handling specialists and or development groups.
Main duties of the job
- Work within and support the back care specialist team to promote best practice and safe systems of work for back care and manual handling across the Trust.
- Work with the team to deliver a strategy aimed at reducing musculoskeletal injuries within the Trust under the guidance and support of the Lead Back Care Advisor / nominated deputy.
- Deliver trust-wide mandatory manual handling training as part of the strategy to reduce manual handling and ergonomically related injuries.
- Provide support to unit-based Back Care Facilitators giving advice and guidance on manual handling update training at departmental / clinical level.
- Assist in the development, delivery and evaluation of manual handling training and education programmes and participate in audit activity as required.
- Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model to others at all times commensurate with the appropriate professional code / Trust values.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital,
Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
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