An exciting opportunity has arisen within a new Maternity Tobacco Dependency Service, working at Queens Hospital Burton. We are looking to appoint a Tobacco Dependency Advisor to support the Maternity Tobacco Dependency Treatment Team.
This is a unique opportunity to join a developing service, as well as support and contribute toward the existing Staffordshire Integrated Stop Smoking in Pregnancy Service at Everyone Health Staffordshire. This role is available full time or part time, and will be based at Queens Hospital, Monday to Friday. This service may further develop with evening and weekend work.
The Maternity Tobacco Dependency Advisor will be responsible for supporting maternity patients throughout Burton Hospital, to deliver Stop Smoking or Temporary Abstinence support, and providing personalised treatment plans, provision of pharmacotherapy and a discharge plan.
This will be a challenging but extremely rewarding role. If you are enthusiastic, motivated, and looking to make a big difference, then this is the role for you!
Main duties of the job
The Ideal Candidate would:
* Be NCSCT Certified or willing to gain the qualification
* Have previous experience of working as a Stop Smoking Advisor
* Or have previous experience working within a hospital, maternity or a clinical environment.
We would like to hear from you if you:
* Have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
* Possess a minimum of 1 year experience working in a community-based smoking cessation service.
* Are experienced in using behaviour change models.
* Can demonstrate a clear understanding of the range and appropriate use of different smoking cessation interventions.
* Display strong knowledge of the harmful effects of smoking, smoking as an addiction behaviour, withdrawal, and relapse.
* Are flexible with working day.
* Possess good time management and planning skills.
* Are interested in motivating and supporting both individuals in virtual and community-based settings.
* Can raise public awareness and provision of consistent healthy lifestyle messaging, on issues relevant to the health of the community and in a multi-cultural setting.
About us
Welcome to Everyone Health.
Everyone Health offers a behaviour change approach to improving the health of local communities. We do this by providing dynamic and bespoke healthy lifestyle services to partners across the sector and deliver effective prevention and treatment services.
Job responsibilities
Maternity Tobacco Dependency Advisor
Main Purpose
The Tobacco Dependency Advisor will deliver one to one stop smoking interventions within community and hospital settings, within the maternity services. Predominantly supporting Staffordshire residents, the post holder will be required to work flexibly as the role may later involve evening/weekend work.
This post will:
* Provide information to smokers to enable them to make an informed choice to make an attempt to stop smoking and then to support the smoker with a formal evidence-based quit programme.
* Develop and improve accessibility of Staffordshire's Health Communities Service and Stop Smoking in Pregnancy Service through the pro-active promotion of the smoking cessation programmes and referral pathways amongst primary and secondary care services, other key health care providers, allied professionals, community development initiatives, local agencies and the general public.
* Provide ongoing support to a caseload of referrals, supporting each quit attempt in line with Saving Babies Lives v3, national and company standards.
* Contribute to the planning, delivery and development of the stop smoking in pregnancy service including specific project work.
* Support Maternity inpatients and antenatal care throughout Burton Hospital, to deliver in-house Stop Smoking support, and providing personalised treatment plans, provision of pharmacotherapy and a discharge plan.
* In conjunction with the Clinical Delivery teams, lead, plan and deliver an appropriate and accessible cessation service within the delivery team area.
* Provide cessation support including in-depth one to one behaviour change support, assessing clients' readiness and suitability for Stop Smoking treatments.
* Conduct telephone calls, maintain accurate patient notes and records, and complete service-specific administration tasks as required.
* Adhere to service protocols and procedures in relation to the provision of supportive pharmacotherapy medication.
* Collate accurate clinical records in line with national requirements NHS England, OHID and NCSCT and inputting data into the service web-based database in a timely and professional manner.
* Support the delivery of promotion activity across Staffordshire in line with the service marketing strategy.
* Work flexibly to provide a coordinated service across the localities to meet the needs of the client group, including evening and weekend work where required.
* Maintain up to date clinical knowledge, undertake evidence-based practice and promote the use of new and innovative practice.
* In conjunction with delivery team lead, conduct analysis and evaluation of designated programmes in order to improve the quality of service.
* Be responsible for identifying issues or concerns to line manager, so that appropriate action can be taken.
* Contribute to ongoing needs assessment, audit and other governance programmes in relation to activities as part of the health improvement agenda.
Person Specification
Experience
* Being able to demonstrate putting service users first and delivering a high-quality service.
* Evidence of being adaptable and quick thinking.
* Minimum of 1 year experience working in community, primary care, maternity or in-patient settings.
* Experience of working with adults in a 1-2-1 and group environment, to support positive lifestyle change.
* Experience of using behaviour change models within a work context.
* Experience of working in a multi-cultural setting with patients of different cultures, genders and ages.
* Experience of working to challenging performance targets and achieving excellent outcomes.
* Sound knowledge of delivering smoking cessation interventions and advising on smoking cessation to special populations.
* Understanding of harmful effects of smoking, smoking as an addictive behaviour, withdrawal and relapse.
* Knowledge of NICE guidance, NCSCT and PHE standards relating to the treatment of smoking cessation.
* Knowledge and understanding of the Patient Confidentiality Act, Safeguarding and the Data Protection Act.
* Knowledge of maintaining records and monitoring system.
Qualifications
* Education to GCSE Standard at grades A-C for a minimum of 5 GCSEs or equivalent including Mathematics and English language or literature.
* NCSCT Smoking Cessation Certified.
* Training will be provided; however, a health degree or equivalent is advantageous.
Special Conditions
* Highly motivated self-starter with resilience, determination and the ability to support service users throughout the programme.
* Good presentation of self: enthusiastic, innovative and flexible.
* Role may incorporate evening/weekend working, with variable levels of travel across Staffordshire, for clinics and promotional events.
* Full UK Driving licence and access to a car for work, with business purposes insurance.
* This post involves working with vulnerable adults and as such the post holder will require a disclosure of criminal records at an enhanced level DBS.
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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