Public Health Maternity Support Worker - Tobacco
We are advertising for two part-time Tobacco Treatment Advisors to join our Maternity team. One position at 30 hours and a second position at 22.5 hours per week.
The Smoke Free Tobacco Treatment Advisor will provide individualized smoking cessation support to pregnant and post-partum women receiving maternity care across Herefordshire and to their partners and/or close family members.
Working with maternity services, the TDA will promote wellbeing and health. The post holder will have in-depth experience of behavioral change, managing clinics, and the ability to work both independently and autonomously.
The post holder will have an understanding and experience of managing caseloads, excellent communication skills in engaging with vulnerable women in a culturally sensitive manner, as well as being able to follow instructions and policies.
The TDA working within Herefordshire maternity services will provide individualized public health support to women and will specifically deliver smoking cessation support to women and their families in a flexible and innovative way.
Main Duties of the Job
Persuading mothers and household members to stop smoking using a variety of evidence-based stop smoking interventions including face-to-face behavioral support and pharmacotherapy. This includes 1:1 face-to-face in a variety of settings, including home visits, use of e-cigarettes, and telephone and texting support, ANC clinics, and community hubs.
The TDA will work closely with others as part of the wider pathway to support smoking cessation and smoke-free households, including carbon monoxide testing, risk perception interventions, and recording, collating, and monitoring smoking and quit rates and client progress.
The post holder will work closely with the team leader to implement a range of services across the LMNS. As a smoke-free champion across the Trust, you will provide information, advice, and support to patients on stopping smoking, minimizing harm from tobacco, and health-related issues, working closely with Midwifery teams.
Undertaking coherent and excellent management of caseload and having the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. There will be limited opportunity for home working. The post holder will be expected to work with data and support the team leader in providing an accurate record of numbers and submissions of data in a timely manner. The post holder will work to policies and procedures.
About Us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster, and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward-looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time... all the time.
Job Responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Education & Qualification
* NVQ Level 3 in Health care or equivalent with relevant experience.
* Smoking cessation Advisor NCSCT Intermediate level qualification or willingness to train.
* Educated to GCSE including Maths and English grades A-C (or 4-9), or functional skills level 1&2 in maths and English.
* Undertaken Challenging Conversation Motivational Training or willingness to train.
* Foundation Degree in a health-related qualification (Associate Psychologist/Registered Nurse Associate) and/or equivalent (2 A levels or Level 4 qualification).
* Trained in Making Every Contact Count (MECC) and Motivational Interviewing.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
* Knowledge of the impact smoking has on health.
* Knowledge of evidence-based interventions for smoking cessation.
* Proficient in reading and writing in the English language.
* Good written communication skills and computer skills.
* Ability to prioritize workload and work effectively with minimal supervision.
Experience
* Able to demonstrate an understanding of health outcomes for smoking and smoking in pregnancy.
* Able to demonstrate an understanding of national policies relating to smoke-free pregnancies (including SBLCBv2, Tobacco Control Plan).
* Experience of providing smoking cessation support.
* Working with pregnant women.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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