Advisor - Tackling Tobacco Dependency - Band 4 - Bristol, United Kingdom - North Bristol NHS Trust

North Bristol NHS Trust
North Bristol NHS Trust
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Advisor

  • Treating Tobacco Dependence (maternity)
We are looking for an exceptional individual to join our maternity teams as an advisor for Treating Tobacco Dependence.


Working across departments within North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospital Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW), you will have an opportunity to provide strategic oversight and support for the implementation of the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Tackling Tobacco Dependency (TTD) programme to help reduce smoking in pregnancy rates and improve health outcomes.

This role is suitable for individuals currently working in a clinical or non-clinical setting.


Within this role, you will:


This postholder will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting pregnant service users, their significant others and families to stop smoking.

It focuses on engaging with people in communities and offering them practical support to change their behaviour to achieve their own choices and goals.


The postholder will provide intermediate targeted smoking cessation support throughout pregnancy and the post-natal period, using the support of interventions such as CO monitoring and Nicotine Replacement Therapy, along with administration of the smokefree pregnancy data collection and collation.

The postholder will work and liaise closely with local stop smoking services as well as local Public Health teams.

The postholder is responsible for acting as a smoke free champion promoting the smoke free message through their day to day work and seeking out opportunities to develop and implement stop smoking services in a range of health and community settings.

North Bristol NHS Trust

At North Bristol NHS Trust, our maternity services provide a full range of maternity care.

More than 6,000 babies are born with us every year and our dedicated midwives, doctors, maternity care support workers (MCSW's) and support staff are committed to providing personalised care to the highest standards.

Our maternity services are renowned nationally and internationally, having developed PROMPT and a wide research portfolio.

University Hospital Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust


St Michael's Hospital is a small and friendly NHS teaching hospital with links to Bristol University and the University of the West of England.

We provide a range of facilities including maternity services (a midwifery led unit and central delivery suite), gynaecology, gynae-oncology and children's and adult audiology, ear nose and throat outpatients and genetics.


Bristol is consistently voted the best place to live in the UK, with vibrant local music, arts and gastronomic scenes, a wide range of modern and state of the art shopping, recreation and leisure facilities, a wealth of great local family days out, fantastic transport links for local, national and internal holidays, and it has a rich history.

If you prefer country, village or smaller town living, our Trust is also easily commutable from a range of attractive locations.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached as PDFs to this advert.

Main Duties and Responsibilities of the Post


To plan and deliver stop smoking advice and support sessions, including advice on stop smoking medications, working within recommended protocols and guidelines.

This may involve individual, telephonic, on-line and group work sessions in a variety of settings and venues.


  • Identify and approach service users who are eligible for tobacco dependence conversations and treatment in a variety of different settings. These may be in a clinical area, virtually or in a person's home. Follow service users through their engagement with the service to the location of their care provision in order for integrated care.
  • Develop individually tailored support plans including recommending treatments based on assessed needs.
  • Provide general health, lifestyle advice and support to people using the service e.g. healthy eating, physical activity, stress management. This may include individual and group-based interventions, signposting and referring to other health, community, and voluntary services.
  • Participate in educating pregnant service users, their significant others and families about the benefits of stopping smoking in pregnancy and give support to those service users, significant others and families wanting to quit. Promote smoke free homes and support and advise service users, significant others and families about passive smoking.
  • Deliver Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring to a high standard and engage in the data collection and collation of CO rates in pregnancy and post-partum.
  • Engage with the targeted Smoking Cessation intervention, keeping accurate records and enable good data collection. Maintain accurate up to date and comprehensive records at all times.
  • Ensure that the relevant equipment is provided and maintained on an agreed schedu
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