Job summary
The Community Tobacco Dependency advisor - service lead is a new role to the trust. It will require skills in navigating services and establishing new relationships within BSMHFT clinical staff to ensure a smooth service user journey through the trust's community smokefree pathway.
This will require working with the Project Lead - Tobacco Dependency in the best approach for the service and its users. This role will require a creative and flexible attitude to work with service users who are in mental health community settings.
The Tobacco Dependency Advisors will assist in providing specialist advice and support to mental health service users around tobacco addiction and provide evidence-based approaches in line with national guidance and good practice to help them go smoke free.
The post holder with work across our community mental health settings and support the service users through their smoke free journey.
They will help train trust staff to provide stop smoking interventions establishing the systems and processes to facilitate this and have accurate documentation to report interventions and quit attempts.
Main duties of the job
The advisor will work with the team and mental health staff to provide an evidence-based stop smoking service by delivering
o 1:1 and group smoking cessation interventions
o Work in a recognised processes to allow staff and service users to access evidence-based stop smoking interventions and record results
o Working with partners (with our inpatient Tobacco dependency service, community tobacco dependency service and pharmacists) to ensure continuity of stop smoking support.
o Provide support and training to mental health staff to provide smoking cessation intervention
o Liaison with the project lead to support services users who have recently discharged to quit.
o Ensuring that service users have access to psychological and provision of pharmacological support to help them to cope with tobacco dependence
Work in partnership with the regional team(BCC) to deliver evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment in line with the Department of Health, NHS England, and NICE guidance, and NCSCT best practice guidance
About us
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Person Specification
Training and Qualification
Essential
- Educated to Degree level and post grad diploma in a healthcare related subject or equivalent minimum 2 years' experience in smoking cessation
- A Tobacco Dependency Practitioner with knowledge of tobacco dependency and barriers to stopping smoking
- Recognised Teaching and assessing/mentoring qualification (or equivalent)
- Level 2/3 Smoking Cessation competencies plus Mental health module and evidence of experience in delivering this
- Evidence of continuous professional and management development
Desirable
- Evidence of experience in delivering smoking cessation
- Recognized leadership qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Relevant (or working towards) skills teaching, coaching skills, delivery of tobacco dependency evidence to a variety of audiences
- Ability to communicate to healthcare workers and service users
- Passionate about the smoke free agenda
- Awareness of data collection requirements for reporting
Desirable
- Experience of working in a mental health setting
- Experience of managing a team
- Experience of the Rio patient record
- An understanding of Microsoft programmes
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of multi-professional team working
- To work with lead to develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to support with the deliver a Tobacco Dependency Service within the Trust
- Ability to communicate the benefits of stopping smoking to mental health service users, the challenges involved and how these can be overcome
Desirable
- Effective presentation skills
Personal qualities
Essential
- Willing to adaptable to change and constantly striving to improve and deliver high standards.
- Demonstrates confidence and resilience in overcoming obstacles and is solution focussed
- Ability to work using initiative and work with minimal supervision to achieve own objectives and prioritise their own workload
Person Specification
Training and Qualification
Essential
- Educated to Degree level and post grad diploma in a healthcare related subject or equivalent minimum 2 years' experience in smoking cessation
- A Tobacco Dependency Practitioner with knowledge of tobacco dependency and barriers to stopping smoking
- Recognised Teaching and assessing/mentoring qualification (or equivalent)
- Level 2/3 Smoking Cessation competencies plus Mental health module and evidence of experience in delivering this
- Evidence of continuous professional and management development
Desirable
- Evidence of experience in delivering smoking cessation
- Recognized leadership qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Relevant (or working towards) skills teaching, coaching skills, delivery of tobacco dependency evidence to a variety of audiences
- Ability to communicate to healthcare workers and service users
- Passionate about the smoke free agenda
- Awareness of data collection requirements for reporting
Desirable
- Experience of working in a mental health setting
- Experience of managing a team
- Experience of the Rio patient record
- An understanding of Microsoft programmes
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of multi-professional team working
- To work with lead to develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to support with the deliver a Tobacco Dependency Service within the Trust
- Ability to communicate the benefits of stopping smoking to mental health service users, the challenges involved and how these can be overcome
Desirable
- Effective presentation skills
Personal qualities
Essential
- Willing to adaptable to change and constantly striving to improve and deliver high standards.
- Demonstrates confidence and resilience in overcoming obstacles and is solution focussed
- Ability to work using initiative and work with minimal supervision to achieve own objectives and prioritise their own workload
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).
