Job summary
We are recruiting for a Tobacco Dependency Team Lead who will have a unique opportunity to lead a new team of Tobacco Dependency Advisors (TDAs). The Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service is a new team created to deliver the NHSE mandated treatment pathways for Maternity and Inpatient. The role will represent a unique opportunity to lead a team of TDAs, who will be supporting pregnant people and inpatients to stop smoking and helping improve the health outcomes for the local population.
You will bring a positive mindset to the role, viewing Smoking Cessation as one of the biggest contributions we can make to tackling preventable health disease, and will inspire, motivate and lead the Tobacco Dependency Advisors to support people to stop smoking, through effective line management.
The role will also play an additional part in QEH Smokefree Site and the smoking cessation support offer for staff.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Tobacco Dependency Team to ensure safe, well organized and evidenced based care is offered routinely to all identified smokers and provided to all that access the service. The team will be based across Acute Hospitals in Norfolk & Waveney, with this role based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. As a result, occasional travel to other Acute Hospitals will be required for the role.
You will also provide smoking cessation support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of tobacco dependence service and coordinate the TDAs to ensure service continuity across the two pathways.
The role will also monitor and evaluate the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency. Ensuring the service is developed and enhanced when further national guidance is shared on smoking cessation.
The Team Lead will be instrumental in helping embed the TDAs across the Trusts in Norfolk & Waveney, providing leadership to the new TDAs and actively lead in the future development of the Tobacco Dependency Team.
There may be occasional evening and weekend work required to ensure continuity of the Tobacco Treatment service.
About us
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.
We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.
In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).
We are delighted to have been added to the New Hospital Programme - and we look forward to bringing a new Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) to King's Lynn and West Norfolk which is nothing less than our patients, local communities and staff deserve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details about this vacancy, please see the attached job description and person specification.
The Team Lead will be responsible for ensuring the TDAs are delivering the service across the Acute Hospitals, but whilst hosted by QEH within Clinical Support Services, the TDAs will be embedded within the Maternity Teams at each of the Trust, with clinical lead midwives appointed to provide clinical supervision to the TDAs and onsite maternity teams providing support.
You will provide management support to the Tobacco Dependency Advisors (TDAs), and managing your own workload as well as that of the TDAs on a day-to-day basis to ensure the individual targets and workload commitments are being met, time managed effectively and required administrative tasks undertaken to support their work.
You will provide regular support and supervision to the TDAs, and lead on the evaluation of activities and programmes to inform service delivery and development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details about this vacancy, please see the attached job description and person specification.
The Team Lead will be responsible for ensuring the TDAs are delivering the service across the Acute Hospitals, but whilst hosted by QEH within Clinical Support Services, the TDAs will be embedded within the Maternity Teams at each of the Trust, with clinical lead midwives appointed to provide clinical supervision to the TDAs and onsite maternity teams providing support.
You will provide management support to the Tobacco Dependency Advisors (TDAs), and managing your own workload as well as that of the TDAs on a day-to-day basis to ensure the individual targets and workload commitments are being met, time managed effectively and required administrative tasks undertaken to support their work.
You will provide regular support and supervision to the TDAs, and lead on the evaluation of activities and programmes to inform service delivery and development.
Person Specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
Essential
- Degree level or equivalent qualification and knowledge gained from working
- National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) Level 2 Practitioner or willingness to undertake on commencement of post
- Evidence of ongoing professional development (CPD)
Desirable
- Health promotion or behaviour change training / qualification
- Management qualification or equivalent work experience
- Project Management Certificate
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience working in a patient facing role within a health care setting
- Previous experience of working with people with mental/social health needs or learning disabilities.
- Previous management experience and carrying out supervision and appraisals
Desirable
- Previous experience arranging staff rotas or coordinating daily tasks for staff.
- Previous experience working in the field of smoking cessation and tobacco dependency
- Previous project management experience
Skills, abilities, and knowledge
Essential
- A knowledge and understanding of drivers of ill health
- Confidence in working with a wide variety of partners, internally and externally
- Motivational skills to inspire others
- In depth knowledge of data protection and smoking cessation agenda
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Communications and relationship skills to provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information, and use persuasive, motivational, and reassurance skills as well as tact.
- Ability to work autonomously, managing own caseload, prioritising work and delegate effectively
- Strong organisational and planning skills for a broad range of complex activities or programmes, some of which are ongoing that require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategies
- Ability to cope under pressure with high levels of concentration and conflicting demands
- Ability to manage and support a team of staff, ensuring to lead by example following Trust values and behaviours
- Ability to deal with potentially distressing and emotional situations such as babies going into care or adoption / end of life care.
Desirable
- Experience using clinical and non-clinical systems for data entry and reporting
Person Specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
Essential
- Degree level or equivalent qualification and knowledge gained from working
- National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) Level 2 Practitioner or willingness to undertake on commencement of post
- Evidence of ongoing professional development (CPD)
Desirable
- Health promotion or behaviour change training / qualification
- Management qualification or equivalent work experience
- Project Management Certificate
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience working in a patient facing role within a health care setting
- Previous experience of working with people with mental/social health needs or learning disabilities.
- Previous management experience and carrying out supervision and appraisals
Desirable
- Previous experience arranging staff rotas or coordinating daily tasks for staff.
- Previous experience working in the field of smoking cessation and tobacco dependency
- Previous project management experience
Skills, abilities, and knowledge
Essential
- A knowledge and understanding of drivers of ill health
- Confidence in working with a wide variety of partners, internally and externally
- Motivational skills to inspire others
- In depth knowledge of data protection and smoking cessation agenda
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Communications and relationship skills to provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information, and use persuasive, motivational, and reassurance skills as well as tact.
- Ability to work autonomously, managing own caseload, prioritising work and delegate effectively
- Strong organisational and planning skills for a broad range of complex activities or programmes, some of which are ongoing that require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategies
- Ability to cope under pressure with high levels of concentration and conflicting demands
- Ability to manage and support a team of staff, ensuring to lead by example following Trust values and behaviours
- Ability to deal with potentially distressing and emotional situations such as babies going into care or adoption / end of life care.
Desirable
- Experience using clinical and non-clinical systems for data entry and reporting
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).
