Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a motivated Band 4 Maternity Tobacco Dependency Advisor, working within the Worcestershire Maternity team.
The successful post holders will join our existing team of advisors and will be integral to the Maternity Tobacco Dependency Service.
We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who are passionate about health promotion and health behaviour change to work with our patients and their families to help treat their tobacco dependency throughout pregnancy. The service is a key part of achieving the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle Version 3 and the NHS Long Term Plan.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide behavioural change support, nicotine replacement therapy, and develop bespoke tobacco dependency and quit smoking treatment care plans. You will work with patients on a 1:1 basis, follow systems and processes, and keep accurate records.
Previous experience in smoking cessation/behavioural change support or health care experience would be beneficial but is not essential as training will be provided.
The Maternity Tobacco Dependency Advisor will play a key role within the wider multidisciplinary team, to raise awareness of the harm caused by tobacco usage, and where applicable will refer on to the Smoke Free Homes Service for support postnatally.
As a member of the Maternity Tobacco Dependency Team, the post holder will provide individualised stop smoking support to pregnant patients in a flexible and innovative way, within the Trust, across all three sites, and in patient homes where applicable. The post holder will also work closely with Public Health, the Public Health Midwife, the Saving Babies Lives lead Midwife and other members of the maternity team.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specifically, the post holder will:
- Be responsible for the delivery of stop smoking support throughout pregnancy and the immediate post-natal period, using interventions such as Carbon monoxide monitoring, behavioural support, and Nicotine Replacement Therapy.
- Keep up to date, accurate records using the Trust digital system.
- Act as a smoke free champion promoting the Trust's smoke free policy and smoke free message through their day-to-day work.
- Work closely within the team to deliver the Smoke-free Pregnancy Project and provide regular feedback on smoking in pregnancy data.
- Input data to be reported to Local Authority Public Health Team.
- Work independently with patients, within the agreed tobacco dependence pathways, recognising when there is a need to refer to a more senior member of staff for advice and support.
- Ensure robust follow-up and discharge planning for the patient's ongoing tobacco dependency treatment.
- Be able to travel across the Trust to other sites when needed, and visit clients in their own homes when necessary.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Specifically, the post holder will:
- Be responsible for the delivery of stop smoking support throughout pregnancy and the immediate post-natal period, using interventions such as Carbon monoxide monitoring, behavioural support, and Nicotine Replacement Therapy.
- Keep up to date, accurate records using the Trust digital system.
- Act as a smoke free champion promoting the Trust's smoke free policy and smoke free message through their day-to-day work.
- Work closely within the team to deliver the Smoke-free Pregnancy Project and provide regular feedback on smoking in pregnancy data.
- Input data to be reported to Local Authority Public Health Team.
- Work independently with patients, within the agreed tobacco dependence pathways, recognising when there is a need to refer to a more senior member of staff for advice and support.
- Ensure robust follow-up and discharge planning for the patient's ongoing tobacco dependency treatment.
- Be able to travel across the Trust to other sites when needed, and visit clients in their own homes when necessary.
See enclosed job description for full details
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Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- A good level of understanding evidence-based practice in relation to smoking cessation.
- The ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with professionals/individuals from a variety of different professional backgrounds.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
- Good organisational skills, ability to prioritise workload.
- Ability to work within limits and seek advice when needed.
- Ability to use Microsoft Office applications - computer skills.
- Accurate and sufficient record keeping.
- Knowledge of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
Desirable
- Experience of using an electronic clinical record A basic understanding of audit and evaluation.
Qualifications
Essential
- GSCE level English and Mathematics or equivalent.
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent in health related studies.
- OR - substantial successful experience delivering stop smoking interventions and support.
Desirable
- NCSCT trained stop smoking practitioner.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of proving healthcare advice or promoting healthy lifestyle advice to patients or members of the public.
- Experience of working in health, social care, and other support roles in direct contact with people, families or carers (in a paid or voluntary capacity).
- Experience of provinding help, support and/or counselling on either a one-to-one basis or as part of a group setting.
- Experience of working within multi-professional team environments.
Desirable
- Experience of delivering tobacco dependence treatment.
- Experience of developing and delivering successful health promotion interventions.
- Experience of working with vulnerable people.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- A good level of understanding evidence-based practice in relation to smoking cessation.
- The ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with professionals/individuals from a variety of different professional backgrounds.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
- Good organisational skills, ability to prioritise workload.
- Ability to work within limits and seek advice when needed.
- Ability to use Microsoft Office applications - computer skills.
- Accurate and sufficient record keeping.
- Knowledge of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
Desirable
- Experience of using an electronic clinical record A basic understanding of audit and evaluation.
Qualifications
Essential
- GSCE level English and Mathematics or equivalent.
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent in health related studies.
- OR - substantial successful experience delivering stop smoking interventions and support.
Desirable
- NCSCT trained stop smoking practitioner.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of proving healthcare advice or promoting healthy lifestyle advice to patients or members of the public.
- Experience of working in health, social care, and other support roles in direct contact with people, families or carers (in a paid or voluntary capacity).
- Experience of provinding help, support and/or counselling on either a one-to-one basis or as part of a group setting.
- Experience of working within multi-professional team environments.
Desirable
- Experience of delivering tobacco dependence treatment.
- Experience of developing and delivering successful health promotion interventions.
- Experience of working with vulnerable people.
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.
