Tobacco Dependency Advisor - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a motivated Tobacco Dependency Advisor, working in a new team headed up by the Tobacco Dependency Project Manager.

The successful post holders will be integral to the running of our Tobacco Dependency Service.

We are looking for a dynamic team player who will bring enthusiasm to our project whilst working with our patients to help treat their tobacco dependency in hospital and post discharge from hospital.

Training will be provided to implement an in-house, evidence-based quit service following the

Ottawa Model:

The project is part of an NHS England pilot for smoke-free hospital settings, delivering on a key ambition in the NHS Long-Term Plan.

The post holder will provide behavioural change support and nicotine replacement therapy to treat tobacco dependency and support patients to develop bespoke tobacco dependency and quit smoking treatment care plans.

You will work with patients on a 1:1 basis and in group sessions and follow systems and processes to ensure service users and staff can access evidence-based Tobacco Dependency interventions and to record these results.

The post holder will work across Whittington Health supporting the Tobacco Dependency project manager in implementing the in-house Tobacco Dependency Service and the trust Tobacco Dependency strategy.

The Tobacco Dependency Advisors will deliver evidence-based inventions, utilising behavioural changes techniques and pharmacotherapy support to provide tailored tobacco dependency treatment.

The post holder will be responsible for creating personalised quit plans and assisting service users to access the support they need for their quit attempt both during their inpatient stay and after discharge.

They will also collect data in accordance with the metrics required by the ICS and NHSE monitoring.

They will support the training and development of staff to embed tobacco dependence treatment into care pathways across the trust.

The Tobacco Dependency Advisors will play a key role within a wide multidisciplinary team, to raise awareness of the harm caused by tobacco usage and the effects on long term physical and mental health, particularly for people with serious mental illness and long-term conditions.

The Tobacco Dependency Advisor will help develop links with other local & regional Tobacco Dependency services in order enhance cross organisational working.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Whittington Health NHS Trust located in the heart of a vibrant area in North Central London.

The trust strives to deliver outstanding, safe care to patients and to empower and develop staff and to make sure we continue to "help local people live longer healthier lives".

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

The Tobacco Dependency Advisors will deliver evidence-based inventions, utilising behavioural changes techniques and pharmacotherapy support to provide tailored tobacco dependency treatment.

They will also collect data in accordance with the metrics required by the ICS and NHSE monitoring.

They will support the training and development of staff to embed tobacco dependence treatment into care pathways across the trust.

The Tobacco Dependency Advisor will help develop links with other local & regional Tobacco Dependency services in order enhance cross organisational working.

Key Relationships

The Tobacco Dependency Advisors will work under direct supervision of the Tobacco Dependency Project Manager.