Maternity Tobacco Dependence Advisor - Kettering, United Kingdom - Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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This is a 1 year fixed-term role to work with maternity team and other team members in providing individualised smoking cessation support to service users and their families in a flexible an innovative way.

Secondments will be considered.

Previous applicants do not need to apply.


This post supports the NHS Long Term Plan commitment to improve prevention and achieving 50% reductions in stillbirth, maternal and neonatal mortality and serious brain injury by 2025.

It will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting pregnant women to stop smoking.

The NHS recognises smoking as a dependency and that it is a chronic, relapsing clinical condition that can kill at least half of people who smoke.

Smoking is the single biggest preventable modifiable risk factor during pregnancy for improving an infant's health and is linked to complications in pregnancy, stillbirth, premature births and sudden infant death syndrome.

Smoking is seen as a medical condition that can be treated, rather than a lifestyle choice.

The post holder will provide tobacco treatment advice and support women and their families to reduce their harm from tobacco.


This post will work under the line management of the Quality and Safety Matron and be supervised by a Stop Smoking Specialist (Public Health Northamptonshire) (matrix management).

This will involve regular practice supervision with the Tobacco Dependence Advisor (Maternity) at the counterpart NHS Trust (KGH/NGH).

The role will be challenging yet rewarding as the services develop as part of the 4-year plan.


Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey.

Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people.

We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.


Our Excellence Values:

Compassion

Respect

Integrity

Courageous

Accountable

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.
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