Positive Engagement Trainer- Band 5

Job summary

This role is a facilitator within the Positive Engagement Team, the job holder will be responsible for the effective delivery of all physical intervention training and its theory components Trust wide, supported by the PET Specialist Advisor (Deputy Anti-Crime advisor). They will support in accordance with accepted standards of practice and in line with ULHT pre-determined learning objectives in designing, implementing and evaluating physical intervention training programmes for clinical staff across the Trust.

The post holder will support the Security Management department in representing the Trust in reducing restrictive physical interventions through therapeutic methods, both internally as well as externally where appropriate, and upholding and promoting the Trust's values and ethos. The post holder will be expected to support the development of practice-based knowledge and skills in this specialist area and contribute to research and audit where required.

The holder will ensure that ULHT meets its legislative requirements, HSE standards and CQC standards for a secure environment and safe practices relative to staff, patients and other users of Trust premises.

The post holder will assist in reducing Violence and Aggression within the trust and support managers by providing appropriate training, guidance and advice to managers to enable them to complete pro-active security risk assessment.

Main duties of the job

To work within the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust as a facilitator across all clinical and all Trust sites, supporting patient and staff safety within the Positive Engagement team. To promote a philosophy throughout the organisation of empowerment and least restrictive practice in line with the Trusts vision, values and goals. Similarly, in accordance with best practice from both a legal and ethical perspective

Advise and offer guidance regarding the appropriate safer actions for staff in relation to individual patients in clinical areas. This may include direct engagement with patients displaying challenging behaviour by responding or advising on incidents across the trust

Support clinical staff who have been physically assaulted in the working environment and advise on cases where assaults have some element of clinical causation. This includes making contact with staff who have been assaulted, ensuring they have been signposted to appropriate support (i.e. Police, Occ Health) Review staff's experience of the incident & training needs

To deliver of a range of training events and activities in accordance with accepted standards of practice and in line with pre-determined learning objectives

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.