The post will be offered on a secondment.
This exciting new role will contribute to the delivery of Walsall's Stop Smoking Services objectives, and the wider objectives of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, by providing high quality, expert, smoking cessation interventions to patients attending the Accident and Emergency department.
The Smoking Cessation Coordinator (SCC) will support patients to stop smoking by providing brief advice on smoking cessation, discussing the effects on health of smoking and benefits to health of stopping smoking, with the patient, and offer a referral to a Local Authority funded Smoking Cessation Service. Patients admitted to hospital, at least overnight, will be referred to the Tobacco Dependency Service.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who can produce results in a challenging environment. As an SCC, you will be supported by the Lead SCC.
This role requires the ability to manage time and resources effectively to ensure that targets are met and smokers who access our hospital's Accident and Emergency department are provided with highly effective support.
Candidates with experience of providing brief advice for tobacco, and stop smoking interventions, would be ideally suited to this role.
There is one full time post available. We would be happy to speak to staff who would consider a secondment.
PLEASE NOTE THIS VACANCY IS RELATED TO EXTERNAL AND FIXED-TERM FUNDING
The post holder will be clinically based within the Trust’s Accident and Emergency department and work under the direction and guidance of the Lead Smoking Cessation Coordinator.
Main duties of the role include:
1. To provide evidenced-based smoking cessation advice in the accident and emergency centre setting during consultation with patients.
2. To demonstrate and maintain knowledge of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products.
3. To support patients to stop smoking by providing information, and brief advice, on the effects of smoking on health, relating this to the patient’s presenting health condition where applicable, assessing the patient’s smoking behaviour and readiness to stop smoking, and referring them to specialist smoking cessation services, either hospital based or community smoking cessation services, this forms the basis of the patient’s tobacco treatment care plan.
4. To work collaboratively with colleagues and partner organisations to ensure smoking and tobacco related health improvement information is available, collating patient data to share with community smoking cessation services, and the existing hospital-based Tobacco Dependency Service, to facilitate patient care by referring them to these services, as part of patient care planning.
5. Be aware of the accident and emergency area’s policies with reference to fire, accident reporting, infection control and health and safety.
6. Establish good relations with all grades of staff to ensure that good communication is maintained.
7. Work in a manner that always protects confidentiality, assessments will be carried out with patients in the waiting area, where smoking cessation staff will move around, choosing the best area to maintain patient confidentiality, smoking cessation staff will be required to walk around the waiting area.
8. Work unsupervised for the first two hours of the working day, and when the Lead Smoking Cessation Coordinator takes annual leave/ other leave - support from the Tobacco Dependency Service (TDS) will be available.
9. Prioritise own workload to ensure that individual patient needs take precedence over administration duties.
10. Use iPad/other tablet to collate patient information, and to process patient referrals.
11. Undertake administrative duties relating to assessments, referrals and team activity on specified software systems.
12. Act as a resource for smoking cessation knowledge and advice for colleagues within the emergency department of the hospital.
13. Support service lead in ensuring the on-going development of effective, evidence-based practice through the establishment and delivery of a programme of training and education for trust staff.
Other Duties
The information supplied above is intended to summarise the key responsibilities and duties of the role. The post holder may be required from time to time to carry out other reasonable requests and duties as required, consistent with the responsibilities of their banding and development as agreed between employee and manager.
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