Tobacco Dependency Advisor - Keighley, United Kingdom - Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
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Keighley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 new Tobacco Dependency Advisors at Airedale General Hospital.


The new Stop Smoking Adviser role will provide specialist stop smoking support to patients accessing Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, ensuring the delivery of timely, high quality support.


Being a first point of contact for patients identified as smoking ensuring timely review of patients needs', delivery of a high quality and evidence based behavioural support as outlined in the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and TrainingStandard Treatment ProgrammeandNICE Guidance.

This will include support and advice to access pharmacotherapy e.g. Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), operating under agreed Trust protocols.


Provision of information, advice and guidance on stop smoking support, education and training and other associated local and organisational smoke-free activities.

Ensuring specialist stop smoking information, advice and guidance is accurate and current.


Supporting the design, implementation and maintaining the stop smoking service, systems and processes required to ensure that the stop smoking service can be accessed appropriately and that internal and external standards for recording and monitoring activity, including outcomes achieved, are met.


To support the delivery of an effective and high-quality staff education, training and awareness programme which meets internal and external standards for stop smoking support.

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services.

We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes.

Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our 'Right Care' behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.


  • Promote the health and wellbeing of people who use the service through offering specialist stop smoking advice, information and support.
  • Work with patients to change their behaviour to improve their health by stopping smoking (and, on occasions, support significant others e.g. partners/ parents/family members who smoke).
  • Required to use their persuasive skills to encourage patients to change their behaviour (e.g. to try a quit attempt/abstain, to try stop smoking medication, to accept a referral for further support).
  • Manage own caseload of patients and responsible for all associated tasks, including followup visits, and managing diary commitments.
  • Act as a smoke free champion promoting the smoke free message through their daytoday work.
  • Support clinical staff to provide more effective stop smoking support for their patients, through providing up to date and evidencebased information and guidance. Provide specialist advice and support to staff, including delivering an education, training and awareness programme to help reduce harm from smoking and ensure AGH remains a smoke free setting.
  • Persuade other staff groups to support stop smoking activity with their patients and within their departments more generally, identifying and supporting smokefree champions across the Trust.
  • Ensure robust discharge planning to meet the needs of the patient's ongoing stop smoking support, including arranging onward referral/appointment (e.g. to a community stop smoking service, community pharmacy), signposting (GP, selfhelp resources), agreeing followup appointments/contacts, coordinating continued supply of medication or prescription, feeding back to health care partners e.g. GP/primary care, midwife.
  • Deliver stop smoking assessments, specialist advice and support, including advice on stop smoking pharmacotherapy and ecigarettes, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This will involve face to face and virtual work and will require working closely with partners including Trust clinicians and pharmacy colleagues, Community Stop Smoking Service and community pharmacists.
  • In community settings only supply patients with Nicotine Replacement Therapy products for selfadministration, inline with Trust protocol.
  • Responsible for management of daytoday workload.
  • Communicate with a wide range of health professionals and other staff to advise them on effective methods of stop smoking behavioural support.
  • Undertake Carbon Monoxide (CO) testing for patients who engage with the service. Both at first contact with the service and 28 days following discharge (where possible).
  • Work with a wide range of patients as part of their daytoday work, including those with communication difficulties and adapt information and support provided accordingly
  • Develop individually tailored stop smoking suppor
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