{"id":101,"date":"2019-02-11T11:40:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2019-04-18T13:48:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:48:33","slug":"moving-and-handling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/services\/moving-and-handling\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving and Handling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h1>Moving and Handling<\/h1>\n\t<h5>Back pain, injuries and carer strain are high risk factors when caring for other people.<\/h5>\n\t<h3>HOW WE CAN HELP<\/h3>\n\t<h2>Improving dignity, comfort, and safety<\/h2>\n\t<p>We can improve dignity, comfort, and safety, reduce risk of harm and injury to a client and their carer by observing the current techniques being used and identifying solutions best suited to both client and carer.<\/p>\n<p>Moving and handling assessments can be carried out in a person\u2019s home, sheltered housing schemes, assisted living\/extra care residences, residential care or nursing care homes. Referrals can be made by an individual, a friend, family member or carer, a care agency, charitable service or care establishment or any involved care service, health professional or health and social care establishment, or other representative.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia from Wharfedale Occupational Therapy has worked for Calderdale, Bradford and Leeds local authorities and maintains these professional connections to work in partnership where possible with their Adult Health and Social Care OT departments and Equipment Loan Stores to access statutory equipment when appropriate for individual circumstances.<\/p>\n\t<h3>OUR EXPERTISE<\/h3>\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li>\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<h3><\/h3 ><p><strong>Promoting safety for all individuals and their carers, through ongoing professional training and working to best practice guidelines and legislation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\t<\/ul>\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li>\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<h3><\/h3 ><p><strong>Considering the environment and personal preferences with regards to moving and handling styles to promote dignity, safety and comfort.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\t<\/ul>\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li>\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<h3><\/h3 ><p><strong>Individual handling plans prepared for carers guidance for continuity and to ensure ongoing risk reduction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\t<\/ul>\n\t<h4>Call us today to find out more on <strong>07904 190 828<\/strong><\/h4>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/contact\" target=\"_self\"   role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCONTACT US\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h4>Testimonials<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;We as an organisation have been working in partnership with Sonia to provide much needed expertise in the assessment of our residents. Sonia is very responsive and flexible to our requests for support and her attendance is to fit with the needs of our residents. She has assisted many of our residents to regain mobility, independence and functional ability through her efficient assessment and accessing of the most appropriate equipment. This has also been very beneficial to our staff who are given direct instruction on the safe moving and handling of our residents where this decline was impacting on them.&#8221;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class='uabb-testimonial-author-name testimonial-author-name'>Nicola Taylor<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHead of Care Services, Abbeyfield The Dales\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve known Sonia on both professional and personal levels for over 15 years and I can honestly say she is one of the most committed and motivated people I have ever known. She achieves everything she sets out to attain and always giving her all enables her to accomplish amazing results. She is reliable, trust worthy, very efficient, empathetic, highly professional and has an amazing energy and spirit which is infectious and addictive.&#8221;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class='uabb-testimonial-author-name testimonial-author-name'>Gayle Cardwell<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdvanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist and Independent Occupational Therapist based in West Yorkshire\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/babicm_300dpi@2x.png\" alt=\"babicm_300dpi@2x\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"babicm_300dpi@2x\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CMSUK-member-logo_300dpi@2x.jpg\" alt=\"CMSUK-member-logo_300dpi@2x\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"CMSUK-member-logo_300dpi@2x\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HCPC.png\" alt=\"HCPC\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"HCPC\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Royal-OTS.png\" alt=\"Royal-OTS\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"Royal-OTS\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving and Handling Back pain, injuries and carer strain are high risk factors when caring for other people. HOW WE CAN HELP Improving dignity, comfort, and safety We can improve dignity, comfort, and safety, reduce risk of harm and injury to a client and their carer by observing the current techniques being used and identifying &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/services\/moving-and-handling\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moving and Handling<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/369"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wharfedaleots.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}