An exciting opportunity has arisen in thePhysical health teamfor a yearfixed term or secondment as a Tobacco dependency advisorto support our inpatients to stop smoking.
The role will support in delivering stop smoking assessments, specialist advice and support, including advice on stop smoking pharmacotherapy and e-cigarettes, working within recommended protocols and guidelines
• Promote the health and wellbeing of people who use the service through offering specialist stop smoking advice, information and support.
• Work with patients to change their behaviour to improve their health by stopping smoking (and, on occasions, support significant others e.g. partners/ parents/family members who smoke).
• Manage own caseload of patients and responsible for all associated tasks, including follow-up visits, and managing diary commitments.
• Act as a smoke free champion promoting the smoke free message through their day-to-day work.
• Support clinical staff to provide more effective stop smoking support for their patients, through providing up to date and evidence-based information and guidance.
• Provide specialist advice and support to staff, including delivering an education, training and awareness programme to help reduce harm from smoking and ensure KMPT remains a smoke free setting.
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
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• Responsible for management of day-to-day workload.
Communicate with a wide range of health professionals and other staff to advise them on effective methods of stop smoking behavioural support.
• Work with a wide range of patients as part of their day-to-day work, including those with communication difficulties and adapt information and support provided accordingly
• Develop individually tailored stop smoking support plans including recommending treatments based on assessed needs and monitoring and adjusting plans as required.
• Provide information to people about stopping smoking, minimizing harm from tobacco and health-related issues in line with best guidance and protocols. Taking into consideration the wide range of diverse needs e.g. different forms of tobacco use, English as a second language Communicate using a range of resources that promote health improvement (mainly stopping smoking), adapting information and using different formats depending on both patient need (e.g. pregnant woman, adult inpatient) and for different staff groups or specialties.
This advert closes on Wednesday 7 May 2025
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