Job summary
- Main area
- Training
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Must form part of the PPE Operational Register
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 186-492-24-FS
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rampton Hospital
- Town
- Retford, Nottinghamshire
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Positive and Safe Violence Reduction Training Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
An exciting but rare opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Positive and Safe Violence Reduction (PSVR) Training Manager at Rampton High Secure Hospital. We are looking for a dedicated person to oversee and lead on all aspects within the violence reduction training centre. The role of PSVR training manager plays an important role within the leadership of the PSVR training team whilst supporting and delivering on all aspects related to the prevention of violence and aggression.
Within this role, core values play a key part of being the PSVR training manager, whilst providing a strong foundation for the PSVR training team to develop and support all learners to embrace new and different ways of engaging aspects of risk, whilst promoting a culture of care, compassion and a principle of least restrictive practice when confronted within signs of distress which may display in forms of behaviours of concerns including the risk of violence and aggression.
The role will be multi factored, with leadership, management, face to face training and patient facing. In addition, you will be required to support, appraise and advise on matters relating to patient safety, management of risk and at times act as a specialist advisor on all matters relating to this portfolio of training.
Main duties of the job
The role of Positive & Safe Violence Reduction (PSVR) Training Manager will be to support the Trust Lead in all aspects of violence reduction training at Rampton High Secure Hospital.
The role also includes line management of the permanent Band 6 PSVR Team Leader, Team Administrator, and the secondment based PSVR training team including a permanent band 5 trainer.
The PSVR Training Manager will ensure and maintain the high quality of training delivered to all staff at Rampton Hospital.
The post holder will be an active trainer across the whole of the training curriculum, keeping their skills up-to-date and contemporary, including a proven track record within the delivery of all syllabuses including PMVA, Breakaway Training, Mechanical Restraints and PPE Shields training, and with an extensive knowledge of the theoretical components underpinning each subject matter, of which the role requires you to be an expert within each of these training portfolios.
The role will also require you to work collaboratively, working closely within a variety of training centres within Nottinghamshire Healthcare and providing key leadership and support within the wider forensic services specifically in relation to the delivery of Breakaway and PMVA training.
Working for our organisation
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working Practice:
To act in a professional advisory role on matters relating to the recognition, prevention and management of Violence and Aggression and personal safety.
To be accessible as a resource to nursing and other professionals at Rampton Hospital
To ensure clinical supervision is in place for all Positive & Safe Violence Reduction Trainers.
Providing when necessary, fact finding reviews in aspects of patient and staff complaints related to the use of violence and aggression.
To represent the Hospital as a professional advisor during complaints and investigations including conduct hearing.
To maintain and further develop personal clinical competence within Rampton Hospital
Responds to Serious Incidents and fulfils Command roles, including responding as a PPE commander or acts as specialist advisor as necessary within the area of personal protective equipment.
To be contactable by the site manager within the attendance of serious and or critical incidents.
Managerial Responsibilities
Manages and leads the PSVR Training Team resources at Rampton Hospital to produce cost effective and high-quality training content.
To support in the leadership of the Positive & Safe Violence Reduction Training team including the Band 5 permanent role and seconded PSVR Trainers.
To ensure that all Positive & Safe Violence Reduction Trainers are up to date with their own training and that each has a PAD that identifies their own professional development plan.
To ensure that all trainers are aligned to the competence framework aligned to the restraint reduction network.
To support the Trustwide lead for PSVR training, to ensure that the training curriculum is developed to adhere to the Positive and Safe Violence Reduction Training manual (PSVR) and meets the training needs of staff for inductions and annual updates.
Advise the forensic care group where identified risk issues related to the recognition, prevention and management of violence and aggression, and personal safety.
To attend reducing restrictive practice forums, patient experience groups, and appraise and advise on matters relating to the use of physical restraint and complex matters.
To support training which meets National agendas around the use of Physical intervention training and maintain systems in place to ensure continuity and alignment to Mandated standards. i.e., RRN
Manage the Personal Protective Equipment Shield Training [PPE], Mechanical Restraints and Method of Entry Training) to address operational requirements and deficiencies. Ensuring PPE exercises are established on all PPE shield courses.
Contributes to other clinical, professional, or academic courses, conferences, etc. as required.
Person specification
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Poses a level of physical fitness and activity required to train students in all the PSVR training curriculum and to carry out these if required within a clinical environment.
- • Possess good motor skills, flexibility, agility, level of fitness, reactiveness, balance. Must have a good understanding of moving and handling, rotation movements of limbs and joints
Desirable criteria
- Completed a recognised course in level Gym instructing.
Qualifications / Academic / Craft / Professional
Essential criteria
- • Hold a degree level in the Management of Violence and Aggression.
- • To be able to demonstrate a good level of written and spoken English.
- • Possess a recognised teaching or assessment qualification, or student Teaching and assessor courses developed and delivered by local academic institutions.
Desirable criteria
- • Hold an equivalent level 6 qualification in prevention and management of violence and aggression.
- • Level 3 and level 4 AIMS award in violence reduction training. • To have completed a first aid at work course
Training
Essential criteria
- • To have attended and in date to a train the trainer level in all subjects below Soft Restraint Belt Soft Restraint Cuffs Safe Emergency Enveloping Lifting Sling BioCare Method of Entry
Desirable criteria
- • To have experience in the delivery of. Soft Restraint Belt Soft Restraint Cuffs Safe Emergency Enveloping Lifting Sling BioCare Method of Entry PPE Shield training
- • In date with HLS training
- • In date with all other mandatory training requirements related to clinical staff.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working at a leadership level within a violence reduction training environment.
- • Experience of working-alignment to the positive and safe violence reduction training manual.
- • To have significant experience in the delivery of: PMVA, Mechanical Restraints, Breakaway, PPE Shield Training and Method of Entry.
- • Broad clinical/operational experience within a variety of clinical settings
Desirable criteria
- • To Have worked within a high secure Hospital
- • Leadership, teaching, coaching, mentoring, and influencing skills
- • Positive approach to problem solving and a can-do attitude. Ability to prioritise and use own initiative
- • Research, analytical, and reporting skills
- • Responds to Serious Incidents and fulfils Command roles, including responding as a PPE commander or acts as specialist advisor as necessary within the area of personal protective equipment.
- • Undertakes research and investigations as required and ensures findings are used to inform practice and enable decision making.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Working knowledge and contributing to the development of policies and procedures related to aspects of violence and aggression.
- • Knowledge of incident command structures and contingency planning.
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983) and Code of Practice
- • Use of Force Act 2018
- • Nice G10 – Management of violence and aggression
- • Positive and proactive Care Reducing the need for restrictive practice.
- • Restraint Reduction Network Training and Trainer standards 2018
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Possess enhanced communication and interpersonal skills.
- • Possess good organisational and time management skills.
Desirable criteria
- • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
- • Experience of producing effective verbal and written reports for a range of audiences
- • Administration skills to maintain accurate training records and produce relevant reports. An ability to use PowerPoint, this includes developing their presentation to deliver to the student group.
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- • You must where required be able to work in full time clinical practice. Open to all direct care staff working a 37.5 hr per week contact.
- • Must poses a Full UK driving licence.
Desirable criteria
- • Must form part of the PPE operational register.
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mark Phillips
- Job title
- Trust Lead for Violence Reduction Training
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01777 248321
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