Maternity Lead for Tobacco Dependency

Job responsibilities

Communication

Communicate effectively with a range of staff across disciplines, grades, and organisations

Maintain collaborative working relationships and effective communications between all members of the multi-disciplinary team, resolving conflict and working within the team to ensure a high standard of co-ordinated client care

Communication with health professionals in other agencies, locally and nationally regarding service provision and potential patient referral.

Ensure that relevant information and updates are cascaded appropriately to maternity staff using a range of communication strategies including community meetings and Specialist Midwives meetings.

To ensure visibility of the Smoke Free service across the Trust and at events and during National Campaigns

To provide expert consultancy and advice to colleagues, local authority and other statutory bodies on health promotion issues within this topic area.

To ensure that effective networks with key midwifery, nursing, medical and primary health care staff involved in the delivery of Tobacco

Dependency/Smoke Free messages, in particular to help deliver the Tobacco Dependency Programme targets, are instigated and maintained

Communicate information to clients and families where there may be barriers to understanding. Provide relevant verbal and written information. Demonstrate ability to overcome barriers to understanding, e.g. patient/client has physical impairment, mental health condition or learning disabilities.

Communicate with a diverse range of people in a compassionate and personalised way, including the ability to build rapport with clients/patients.

Service Delivery and Improvement

Champion Smoke Free sites and the Tobacco Dependency Programme across University Hospitals Sussex and across the local area.

Lead on service delivery of Maternity Patients Tobacco Dependency Treatment pathway, in partnership with Senior Managers and key stakeholders including Public Health Colleagues.

Ensure that protocols, treatment pathways and guidelines reflect the latest evidence and are being applied in clinical care.

Lead on novel national programmes such as Swap 2 Stop and the National Incentives schemes, ensuring implementation, audit and monitoring and evaluation.

Collate, analyse and report on data relating to the effectiveness of the inpatient Tobacco Dependency Treatment programme and associated Local Quality Requirements

Formulate, review, and implement clinical policies and guidelines relating to the Maternity Tobacco Dependency Programme.

Provide regular, clear reports on project progress.

Maintain up to date knowledge of local services available to pregnant people in relation to promoting smoke free families and smoke free homes.

People Management and Development

Support the Health Improvement Advisors for Tobacco Dependency in their smoking cessation role and in promoting smoke-free homes and applying the Trust Wide Smoke Free policy across all hospital sites.

Coordinate and oversee the support, training and effective mentorship of junior staff, students, and support workers

Identify the training and education needs of Health Improvement Advisors for Tobacco Dependency and ensure compliance with statutory, mandatory and role specific training. Develop and deliver an annual training programme for staff.

Act as a resource to nurses, doctors, Ward Clerks, Midwives, maternity staff and students to enable them to develop knowledge and skills. Act as an innovative and enthusiastic role model, providing both practical and theoretical leadership, guidance, and advice to staff on public health issues, promoting an open, honest, and transparent culture.

Effectively manage sickness, absence, and attendance within the Trusts Policy. Management of the staffing resource and cover within the allocated financial resources and ensure that appropriate levels of staffing are always in place.

Design and deliver training sessions for clinical staff including evaluation and monitoring, ability to use novel technology to support remote delivery and group facilitation skills.

Participate in informal and formal teaching sessions for staff such as Education Days

Patient Care Delivery

Advise on and implement changes recommended by the latest evidence to improve and maintain a high-quality service in line with the national agenda.

To maintain detailed and accurate records (manual and electronic) that are consistent with legislation, policies and procedure, regarding interventions and advice given.

Ensure that accurate, legible, and comprehensive midwifery records according to NMC and local guidelines are maintained.

Please note that this role is for a qualified Midwife and we cannot accept applications that do not meet these essential criteria. Please refer to the attached job description and Person Specification for the full role responsibilities and use the person specification top demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria in your supporting information, as this will be used for shortlisting to interview.

professional registration

Essential

• 1.BSc Midwifery or equivalent qualification.

Experience / Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to master's degree level or demonstrable equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Experience of delivering programmes relating to Health Improvement /Health Promotion
• Evidence of past Health Promotion work with disadvantaged groups
• Understanding of health issues related to tobacco dependency
• Experience of managing & supervising staff

Desirable

• Experience of delivering/supporting Tobacco Dependency Advice/Smoking Cessation Advice or evidence of similar Health Promotion work experience utilising Behaviour Change and/or Motivational Interviewing skills to support Health Improvement at an individual level
• Managerial / leadership qualifications or evidence of experience

Skills

Essential

• Good organisational skills, including time management.
• Ability to keep detailed records as necessary
• Ability to deal with complex issues and emotive subject matter relating to patient care. Patient centred approach
• Proven experience of managing a budget
• Training development and delivery including group facilitation skills and the ability to use novel technology for education purposes
• Excellent Computer skills
• Proven ability to prioritise tasks and effectively manage complex workloads and patient caseloads
• Ability to present complex information including analysis of data and statistics in a concise, accurate and understandable way to a range of audiences.
• Evidence of autonomous decision making
• Ability to efficiently prioritise own workload and the workload of others whilst working within very tight deadlines and with differing priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of collaborative working essential, with proven ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels across a wide range of organisation
• Knowledge of NHS systems and processes including NHS patient record systems and/or a willingness to learn. e.g. PatienTrack, Badgernet

People Management & Development

Essential

• Experience of line management and leading and motivating a team
• Leadership skills, drive, and enthusiasm for subject area.
• Ability to write reports on performance and feedback to Senior Manager

Specific Requirements

Essential

• Current non-smoker
• Ability & willingness to travel between hospital sites and community bases and work in a variety of settings.
• Awareness of local and national policies/agenda and ability to translate into practice
• Knowledge of tobacco control issues, including relevant research and legislation

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).