Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Gateshead Health NHS Trust for a highly motivated individual to join the Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service 'QUIT Team'. The QUIT Team are responsible for ensuring that the NHS Long Term Plan commitments are achieved to reduce health inequalities and to tackle avoidable illness caused by tobacco use. The QUIT team recognise that tobacco dependency is an addiction and that it is a chronic, relapsing clinical condition that often starts in childhood and prematurely kills two out of every three long term users. Smoking is seen as a medical condition that can be treated, rather than as a lifestyle choice. The primary role of the post holder is to support abstinence from tobacco and to promote a long-term quit attempt for every smoker admitted to the smoke free, Gateshead Health NHS Trust and provide on-going support following discharge. The service reach includes Acute inpatients, the Maternity service, Staff and outpatients.
Main duties of the job
It will be commonplace for the post holder to support an inpatient during their hospital stay, visiting them on a daily basis on their ward with a view to provide Nicotine Replacement Therapy and offer evidenced based support to help with a personalised quit smoking treatment plan. The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively with the wider team to ensure that all smokers are offered support at the earliest possible opportunity and this will include pregnant people and their families and all inpatients within Gateshead Health NHS Trust. The post holder will be expected to use IT systems to document interactions in patients' electronic medical records. Home / community service clinics may be visited therefore it would be of benefit for the post holder to have a drivers licence. The post holder will be expected to contribute to team meetings and work proactively as a team member and also autonomously and independently. This role will include some weekend work to ensure appropriate service provision.
About us
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Promote the Trust Smoke free Policy and support all patients, visitors and staff to be smoke free
- Have a keen interest in the welfare of others and work with people to change their behavior to improve their health in relation to tobacco use
- Act as a smoke free champion promoting the smoke free message through their day to day work
- Provide advice and support to ward staff and maternity staff to support inpatients to be smoke free and to support smoke free pregnancies following the NHS NENC ICB recommended model for smoking cessation
- Ensure robust discharge planning for the patients ongoing tobacco dependency treatment following discharge and provide on-going support to those patients for up to 12 weeks and beyond as necessary
- Document all encounters with patients using electronic and hand-written means to allow for continuity of care using transparent and contemporaneous record keeping which will evidence best practice
- To provide support for behavior change interventions in relation to tobacco smoking in line with NCSCT training and both regional and national pathways
- To support the day to day running of the Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service to ensure it is safe, well organised and evidenced based in line with NHS Long Term Plan
- Provide stop smoking support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of the Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service, e.g hospital, patients home, community services
- To support the delivery of the service key performance indicators and data reporting metrics for the NHS / ICS data reporting metrics
- Organise own workload and work both supervised and unsupervised in a busy team
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Promote the Trust Smoke free Policy and support all patients, visitors and staff to be smoke free
- Have a keen interest in the welfare of others and work with people to change their behavior to improve their health in relation to tobacco use
- Act as a smoke free champion promoting the smoke free message through their day to day work
- Provide advice and support to ward staff and maternity staff to support inpatients to be smoke free and to support smoke free pregnancies following the NHS NENC ICB recommended model for smoking cessation
- Ensure robust discharge planning for the patients ongoing tobacco dependency treatment following discharge and provide on-going support to those patients for up to 12 weeks and beyond as necessary
- Document all encounters with patients using electronic and hand-written means to allow for continuity of care using transparent and contemporaneous record keeping which will evidence best practice
- To provide support for behavior change interventions in relation to tobacco smoking in line with NCSCT training and both regional and national pathways
- To support the day to day running of the Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service to ensure it is safe, well organised and evidenced based in line with NHS Long Term Plan
- Provide stop smoking support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of the Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service, e.g hospital, patients home, community services
- To support the delivery of the service key performance indicators and data reporting metrics for the NHS / ICS data reporting metrics
- Organise own workload and work both supervised and unsupervised in a busy team
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oExperience of working and communicating with people oMinimum of level 2 functional skills in English oMinimum of level 2 functional skills in Mathematics oExperience of working in health promotion
Desirable
Desirable
Essential
- oLevel 2 smoking cessation training oMotivational behavior training oExperience in using I.T. oKnowledge of Nicotine Replacement Therapy oDrivers licence
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oExperience of working and communicating with people oMinimum of level 2 functional skills in English oMinimum of level 2 functional skills in Mathematics oExperience of working in health promotion
Desirable
Desirable
Essential
- oLevel 2 smoking cessation training oMotivational behavior training oExperience in using I.T. oKnowledge of Nicotine Replacement Therapy oDrivers licence
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
