Moving and Handling Lead Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
The Moving and Handling Lead Practitioner provides Trust-wide specialist leadership for moving and handling practice, education, risk management, equipment governance, and assurance. This role involves developing and evaluating training, policies, and audit programmes to ensure patient and staff safety and compliance. The post holder acts as the Trust's subject matter expert, offering complex advice to various teams and leaders. They will support safe systems across all services, including mental health settings, requiring individualised and trauma-informed approaches. The role contributes to organisational assurance by analysing incidents and identifying improvement priorities.
Essential criteria
- Professional registration
- Manual Handling Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Planning, delivering and evaluating clinical training programmes
- Significant experience of applying manual handling theory and techniques in a mental health care environment
- Planning, delivering and evaluating clinical training programmes
- qualifacation
- Professional registration
- Manual Handling Qualification
- Planning, delivering and evaluating clinical training programmes
- Significant experience of applying manual handling theory and techniques in a mental health care environment
- Planning, delivering and evaluating clinical training programmes
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Moving and Handling Lead Practitioner
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
The Moving and Handling Lead Practitioner will provide Trust-wide specialist leadership for moving and handling practice, education, risk management, equipment governance and assurance. The post holder will lead the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based moving and handling training, policies, competencies, audit programmes and improvement plans to support patient safety, staff safety and compliance with statutory requirements.
The post holder will act as the Trust subject matter expert for moving and handling, providing complex specialist advice to clinical and non-clinical teams, managers, committees and senior leaders. The role will support safe systems of work across inpatient, community and specialist services, including mental health settings where individualised, trauma-informed and behaviourally aware approaches to moving and handling may be required.
The role will contribute to organisational assurance by analysing incidents, training compliance, audit outcomes and feedback to identify themes, risks and improvement priorities. The post holder will support a positive safety culture by influencing practice, challenging unsafe systems where appropriate and enabling teams to deliver safe, person-cen
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