Job summary
It is the vision of Fylde Coast partners to create a tobacco free Fylde Coast and in turn remove all the health harms associated with tobacco addiction. Key to this is supporting all partners to ensure that helping people to stop smoking and recognising smoking as an addiction is a collective and collaborative effort.
The NHS Long Term Plan identifies smoking as one of the top five risk factors that cause premature deaths in England. As such, the NHS is investing in frontline services to tackle tobacco dependence for all inpatients, pregnant women and their partners and high-risk outpatient service by 2023/24.
As part of the Trust's commitment in combatting tobacco addiction, smokefree services at Blackpool Victoria Hospital are made up of 3 interdependent components;
- A Smokefree Hospital Site,
- Smoking Status Screening and Brief Advice Interventions as part of a robust admission pathway for all patients admitted to hospital and,
- Advice and support for all patients and health professionals from our specialist Inpatient Smokefree Service.
Main duties of the job
The Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service supports patients and staff to stop smoking or to reduce the amount they smoke. As a service, it also leads on developing smokefree sites within the Trust, promoting the smokefree message across the ground and provides training to staff on tobacco harm reduction and smoking cessation training.
The Inpatient Smokefree Service is the first element of a broader Smokefree programme, which will also increase the Trust's focus on other aspects of prevention, including health promotion and improvement strategies. Together with our community-based smoking cessation services, the Trust's wider Smokefree programme will improve patient health and reduce premature mortality by creating an environment and culture that support reducing and directly treating tobacco dependence across the Fylde Coast.
As the Service Lead for the Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service, you will support the implementation of the smokefree services within the Trust, in particular the Inpatient Smokefree Service. This includes advising the Trust on appropriate measures to reduce harm from tobacco and support smokefree sites; developing and managing the Inpatient Smokefree Service within the Trust; providing tobacco dependency interventions and advice to patients and staff; and supporting the training of Trust staff. The post holder will also contribute to the wider role of the team in the promotion, development, monitoring, and evaluation of smokefree services.
About us
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.
As one of the United Kingdom's largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents - it's not just a good place to work; it's a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Service Development & Provision
- Working with the Service Manager, support the establishment of the Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service.
- Network and liaise with health professionals and others within the Trust, providing specialist knowledge and expertise around tobacco harm reduction and the treatment of tobacco dependency, including advising the Trust's Smokefree Executive Sponsor, Directorate management, Clinical Lead and champions.
- Support and attend the Trust's Smokefree Steering Group, local Tobacco Control Groups and events as required.
- Manage and ensure the continuous development of the Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service, in line with national guidelines and policy, the local service specification and patient and staff feedback.
- Contribute to the development of tobacco harm reduction related care pathways, clinical guidelines, protocols and procedures. Including, as needed, adaptations to patient documentation, template care plans and the electronic patient record templates.
- Contribute to the development and updating of resources for the Trust's Smokefree programme.
- Ensure regular involvement and engagement of patients and staff, co-designing the service and seeking their input to service evaluations and the continuous quality improvement of services.
- Ensure that effective referral pathways are made and maintained within the Trust to the Inpatient Smokefree Service, meeting the diverse needs of smokers by monitoring usage of the service and responding appropriately.
- Ensure robust discharge planning for the patient's ongoing specialist stop smoking support for patients wishing to quit.
- Liaise with and work closely with community-based smoking cessation services ensuring a smooth handover of patient care. Liaise with General Practices and Community Pharmacists as required.
- Co-ordinate smokefree initiatives in the Trust, supporting a culture change.
- Be involved in the development, delivery and evaluation of promotional and marketing activities for the Inpatient Smokefree Service as part of the wider Trust's Smokefree programme.
- Advise on the range of pharmaceutical products that should be available to smokers within the Trust.
- Identify training needs and lead the development, delivery and evaluation of training on the Inpatient Smokefree Service and the treatment of tobacco harm reduction and dependency within the Trust and contribute to Trust training programmes and events, supported by the Health Education Practitioner (HEP).
- Offer guidance and mentoring to staff as appropriate to enhance competence and confidence to treat tobacco dependency and support harm reduction interventions.
- Attend educational events, departmental meetings and, where appropriate, multi-disciplinary ward rounds, to influence clinical practice and the embedding of treatment for tobacco dependence or harm reduction interventions within personalised care.
- Ensure staff are consistent in supporting people to live healthier lives, including identifying those who need extra support, through a targeted and proactive approach to health promotion and prevention of ill health and the use of every contract with people to do so.
- Ensure that the Inpatient Smokefree Service links with other health promoting services and opportunities within the Trust and support, where appropriate, the development of these wider services.
- Be responsible for the design and delivery of a range of presentations tailored to the needs of a diverse range of groups, supported by the HEP.
- Be involved in the development delivery and evaluation of specific projects; analysing local data and producing action plans and reports to support delivery.
- Be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of the service and contribute to the inputting of data and the production of regular reports. Act on the findings of the monitoring and evaluations to continually improve the service.
- Ensure the Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service:
- Responds effectively to referrals within stated timescales.
- Provides excellent levels of customer service to people.
- Maintains accurate patient electronic records, using Trust systems e.g. 1 System 4 Health (1s4h), in line with Trust guidelines.
- Carries out administrative duties efficiently and effectively in order to meet the needs of the service.
- Collects required data for the ongoing auditing and evaluation of the service.
Direct Patient Care
- Deliver smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction assessments, advice and support sessions, including advice on tobacco dependency pharmacotherapy, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This will involve face to face sessions in variety of settings across the Trust, working closely with community-based smoking cessation services and community pharmacists.
- Develop individually tailored support plans, including recommending treatments based on assessed needs.
- Provide information to patients about tobacco harm reduction, stopping smoking and health-related issues in line with best guidelines and protocols.
- Provide general health and lifestyle advise and support to people suing the service e.g. healthy eating, physical activity, stress management, signposting and referring to other health, community and voluntary services.
- Be responsible for the delivery of smoking cessation support and tobacco harm reduction interventions to specific client groups (e.g. pre-operative patients, inpatients, outpatients and staff).
- Provide advice and support to ward staff on individual patient's care.
- Ensure robust discharge planning for the patient's ongoing specialist stop smoking support for patient's wishing to quit.
Staff Management Responsibilities
- Manage the Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service.
- Provide day-to-day supervision of the Trust's Inpatient Specialist Stop Smoking Advisors and other staff, including the allocation and monitoring of workloads, day-to-day supervision.
- Identify learning needs of staff and support staff to participate in local and regional/national level learning, development and networking opportunities, supported by the HEP.
- Provide advice and support to others delivering interventions, including addressing issues of quality and performance against the service specification and other agreements.
- Contribute to the recruitment and appraisal of staff.
Professional Development & Self-Management
- Plan own time and activities, in addition to service rotas to meet the needs of the service.
- Take an active part in developing own knowledge and skills, maintaining own professional development and ensuring own supervision needs are met.
- Maintain current knowledge base with regard to tobacco harm reduction (clinical research, best practice guidance etc.).
- Seek advice and support as and when appropriate.
- Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others.
- Participate in an annual performance and personal development review.
- Ensure own attendance at mandatory and statutory training.
Financial & Physical Resources Responsibilities
- Allocate and monitor resources and deployment of staff appropriately, i.e. to ensure maximum effectiveness and coverage of Specialist Stop Smoking Advisors.
- Use Trust resources efficiently and suggest efficiency savings to more senior staff.
- Maintain stock and resource levels e.g. for CO monitors ad mouth pieces, training and communication resources.
Key Working Relationships
- Deputise as needed for the Service Manager.
- Provide specialist advice to the Trust's Smokefree Executive Sponsor, Directorate management, Clinical Lead and champions.
- Work closely with other team members encouraging effective team working.
- Develop good working relationships with clinical and non-clinical colleagues across the Trust and liaise with local General Practitioners and community pharmacies.
- Establish the maintain links with other organisations providing support and resources for the Inpatient Smokefree Service e.g. local authority tobacco leads, community-based smoking cessation services, other Trusts across the Lancashire & South Cumbria regional Integrated Care System (ICS).
- Support multi-disciplinary teams within the Trust in the process of change, and chairing groups as necessary.
- Ensure patients, service users and the public are engaged in the development of services.
- Participate in the tobacco related public health networks.
- Maintain good working relationships with all levels of staff.
- Liaise with others in the health and social care community in order to promote the Trust's Smokefree programme.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Service Development & Provision
- Working with the Service Manager, support the establishment of the Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service.
- Network and liaise with health professionals and others within the Trust, providing specialist knowledge and expertise around tobacco harm reduction and the treatment of tobacco dependency, including advising the Trust's Smokefree Executive Sponsor, Directorate management, Clinical Lead and champions.
- Support and attend the Trust's Smokefree Steering Group, local Tobacco Control Groups and events as required.
- Manage and ensure the continuous development of the Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service, in line with national guidelines and policy, the local service specification and patient and staff feedback.
- Contribute to the development of tobacco harm reduction related care pathways, clinical guidelines, protocols and procedures. Including, as needed, adaptations to patient documentation, template care plans and the electronic patient record templates.
- Contribute to the development and updating of resources for the Trust's Smokefree programme.
- Ensure regular involvement and engagement of patients and staff, co-designing the service and seeking their input to service evaluations and the continuous quality improvement of services.
- Ensure that effective referral pathways are made and maintained within the Trust to the Inpatient Smokefree Service, meeting the diverse needs of smokers by monitoring usage of the service and responding appropriately.
- Ensure robust discharge planning for the patient's ongoing specialist stop smoking support for patients wishing to quit.
- Liaise with and work closely with community-based smoking cessation services ensuring a smooth handover of patient care. Liaise with General Practices and Community Pharmacists as required.
- Co-ordinate smokefree initiatives in the Trust, supporting a culture change.
- Be involved in the development, delivery and evaluation of promotional and marketing activities for the Inpatient Smokefree Service as part of the wider Trust's Smokefree programme.
- Advise on the range of pharmaceutical products that should be available to smokers within the Trust.
- Identify training needs and lead the development, delivery and evaluation of training on the Inpatient Smokefree Service and the treatment of tobacco harm reduction and dependency within the Trust and contribute to Trust training programmes and events, supported by the Health Education Practitioner (HEP).
- Offer guidance and mentoring to staff as appropriate to enhance competence and confidence to treat tobacco dependency and support harm reduction interventions.
- Attend educational events, departmental meetings and, where appropriate, multi-disciplinary ward rounds, to influence clinical practice and the embedding of treatment for tobacco dependence or harm reduction interventions within personalised care.
- Ensure staff are consistent in supporting people to live healthier lives, including identifying those who need extra support, through a targeted and proactive approach to health promotion and prevention of ill health and the use of every contract with people to do so.
- Ensure that the Inpatient Smokefree Service links with other health promoting services and opportunities within the Trust and support, where appropriate, the development of these wider services.
- Be responsible for the design and delivery of a range of presentations tailored to the needs of a diverse range of groups, supported by the HEP.
- Be involved in the development delivery and evaluation of specific projects; analysing local data and producing action plans and reports to support delivery.
- Be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of the service and contribute to the inputting of data and the production of regular reports. Act on the findings of the monitoring and evaluations to continually improve the service.
- Ensure the Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service:
- Responds effectively to referrals within stated timescales.
- Provides excellent levels of customer service to people.
- Maintains accurate patient electronic records, using Trust systems e.g. 1 System 4 Health (1s4h), in line with Trust guidelines.
- Carries out administrative duties efficiently and effectively in order to meet the needs of the service.
- Collects required data for the ongoing auditing and evaluation of the service.
Direct Patient Care
- Deliver smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction assessments, advice and support sessions, including advice on tobacco dependency pharmacotherapy, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This will involve face to face sessions in variety of settings across the Trust, working closely with community-based smoking cessation services and community pharmacists.
- Develop individually tailored support plans, including recommending treatments based on assessed needs.
- Provide information to patients about tobacco harm reduction, stopping smoking and health-related issues in line with best guidelines and protocols.
- Provide general health and lifestyle advise and support to people suing the service e.g. healthy eating, physical activity, stress management, signposting and referring to other health, community and voluntary services.
- Be responsible for the delivery of smoking cessation support and tobacco harm reduction interventions to specific client groups (e.g. pre-operative patients, inpatients, outpatients and staff).
- Provide advice and support to ward staff on individual patient's care.
- Ensure robust discharge planning for the patient's ongoing specialist stop smoking support for patient's wishing to quit.
Staff Management Responsibilities
- Manage the Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service.
- Provide day-to-day supervision of the Trust's Inpatient Specialist Stop Smoking Advisors and other staff, including the allocation and monitoring of workloads, day-to-day supervision.
- Identify learning needs of staff and support staff to participate in local and regional/national level learning, development and networking opportunities, supported by the HEP.
- Provide advice and support to others delivering interventions, including addressing issues of quality and performance against the service specification and other agreements.
- Contribute to the recruitment and appraisal of staff.
Professional Development & Self-Management
- Plan own time and activities, in addition to service rotas to meet the needs of the service.
- Take an active part in developing own knowledge and skills, maintaining own professional development and ensuring own supervision needs are met.
- Maintain current knowledge base with regard to tobacco harm reduction (clinical research, best practice guidance etc.).
- Seek advice and support as and when appropriate.
- Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others.
- Participate in an annual performance and personal development review.
- Ensure own attendance at mandatory and statutory training.
Financial & Physical Resources Responsibilities
- Allocate and monitor resources and deployment of staff appropriately, i.e. to ensure maximum effectiveness and coverage of Specialist Stop Smoking Advisors.
- Use Trust resources efficiently and suggest efficiency savings to more senior staff.
- Maintain stock and resource levels e.g. for CO monitors ad mouth pieces, training and communication resources.
Key Working Relationships
- Deputise as needed for the Service Manager.
- Provide specialist advice to the Trust's Smokefree Executive Sponsor, Directorate management, Clinical Lead and champions.
- Work closely with other team members encouraging effective team working.
- Develop good working relationships with clinical and non-clinical colleagues across the Trust and liaise with local General Practitioners and community pharmacies.
- Establish the maintain links with other organisations providing support and resources for the Inpatient Smokefree Service e.g. local authority tobacco leads, community-based smoking cessation services, other Trusts across the Lancashire & South Cumbria regional Integrated Care System (ICS).
- Support multi-disciplinary teams within the Trust in the process of change, and chairing groups as necessary.
- Ensure patients, service users and the public are engaged in the development of services.
- Participate in the tobacco related public health networks.
- Maintain good working relationships with all levels of staff.
- Liaise with others in the health and social care community in order to promote the Trust's Smokefree programme.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS
- Specialist knowledge relating to tobacco control and tobacco dependency treatment
- Good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice
- Understanding the principles and approaches that are key to health improvement practice and behaviour change
- Understanding of factors contributing to health inequalities
- Understand and maintain confidentiality issues
Desirable
- Knowledge of patient engagement techniques for service development or improvement
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction interventions
- Substantial experience of delivering healthcare, or specialist health advice to patients and the public
- Experience of supervision staff
- Experience of delivering training
- Experience of using Microsoft Office software i.e., Word, Outlook, Excel
Desirable
- Experience of working in NHS secondary care
- Monitoring, evaluation and audit, including report writing
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Degree or professional qualification in a related subject
- Management qualification or equivalent experience (e.g., NVQ Level 4 in Management or Certificate in managing in Health or Social Care
- Evidence of ongoing professional development (CPD)
- Smoking Cessation Training - Level 2 delivered by an NHS Stop Smoking Service or the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) or willingness to undertake on commencement of post
Desirable
- Specialist training in relation to public health, health promotion, tobacco control or smoking cessation
Skills & Competencies
Essential
- Skills in supporting behaviour change
- Ability to manage a service, proposing and implementing service changes as required in line with national and local policies
- Ability to effectively supervise staff
- Ability to analyse and evaluate health data and effectiveness of public health initiatives and programmes. Identifying and assessing alternative approaches and the required resources
- Ability to undertake Health Needs Assessments and communicate complex information
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and listening skills
- Presentation and facilitation skills, including to large groups and a range of audiences
- Identify training needs, plan and deliver appropriate training
- Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise and coordinate own and other's workload
- Ability to use electronic record systems
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Ability to motivate and enthuse others
- Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to negotiate and influence others
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals/individuals from different professional backgrounds
- Commitment to reducing health inequalities and the promotion of equality of opportunity
- Proven track record of reliability
- Ability to travel across the Trust as appropriate to the role and within the Fylde Coast for occasional meetings/training events
- Ability to work flexible hours when team/service requires
- Fully supportive of the Trust's smokefree policies acting as a smokefree champion
- Current non-smoker - due to nature of post
Person Specification
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS
- Specialist knowledge relating to tobacco control and tobacco dependency treatment
- Good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice
- Understanding the principles and approaches that are key to health improvement practice and behaviour change
- Understanding of factors contributing to health inequalities
- Understand and maintain confidentiality issues
Desirable
- Knowledge of patient engagement techniques for service development or improvement
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction interventions
- Substantial experience of delivering healthcare, or specialist health advice to patients and the public
- Experience of supervision staff
- Experience of delivering training
- Experience of using Microsoft Office software i.e., Word, Outlook, Excel
Desirable
- Experience of working in NHS secondary care
- Monitoring, evaluation and audit, including report writing
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Degree or professional qualification in a related subject
- Management qualification or equivalent experience (e.g., NVQ Level 4 in Management or Certificate in managing in Health or Social Care
- Evidence of ongoing professional development (CPD)
- Smoking Cessation Training - Level 2 delivered by an NHS Stop Smoking Service or the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) or willingness to undertake on commencement of post
Desirable
- Specialist training in relation to public health, health promotion, tobacco control or smoking cessation
Skills & Competencies
Essential
- Skills in supporting behaviour change
- Ability to manage a service, proposing and implementing service changes as required in line with national and local policies
- Ability to effectively supervise staff
- Ability to analyse and evaluate health data and effectiveness of public health initiatives and programmes. Identifying and assessing alternative approaches and the required resources
- Ability to undertake Health Needs Assessments and communicate complex information
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and listening skills
- Presentation and facilitation skills, including to large groups and a range of audiences
- Identify training needs, plan and deliver appropriate training
- Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise and coordinate own and other's workload
- Ability to use electronic record systems
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Ability to motivate and enthuse others
- Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to negotiate and influence others
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals/individuals from different professional backgrounds
- Commitment to reducing health inequalities and the promotion of equality of opportunity
- Proven track record of reliability
- Ability to travel across the Trust as appropriate to the role and within the Fylde Coast for occasional meetings/training events
- Ability to work flexible hours when team/service requires
- Fully supportive of the Trust's smokefree policies acting as a smokefree champion
- Current non-smoker - due to nature of post
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).
