Tobacco Dependency Advisor - North Shields, United Kingdom - Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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North Shields, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

An exciting opportunity to work with Northumbria Healthcare Public Health team on a new tobacco dependency team.

This team is key to delivering the ambitions of the NHS Long Term plan to provide treatment for tobacco dependency for all patients admitted to hospital, making a significant contribution to public health and reducing health inequalities.

This post will involve working directly with patients to assess their needs related to tobacco dependency and to work with them to identify treatment and support to enable them make a successful quit attempt.

Support may be face to face, remote consultation or via telephone.

Other duties will include supporting the public health nurse and wider public health team in developing and delivering training packages on tobacco dependency and a range of public health issues.

To support the day to day running of the tobacco dependency service to ensure safe, well organised and evidenced based care is provided to all that access the service.

Provide support in a range of settings as required.

To support the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency.

Organise own workload and work unsupervised in a busy team.

Maintain a high standard of work and prioritise own workload according to the needs of the service, individual needs including equality, diversity and social inclusion in all aspects of work.

Take referrals, including self-referrals into the service and working with patients to identify the most appropriate tobacco dependency treatment pathway.

Identifying and engaging with individuals and groups from target areas.

Supporting individuals to make informed choices about their health and wellbeing and supporting them in initiating and sustaining appropriate behavioural changes to improve their health.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country.

Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.

Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way

To work with the tobacco dependency team and public health team to provide behavioural support and treatment in relation to tobacco smoking.

To support the day to day running of the tobacco dependency service to ensure safe, well organized and evidenced based care is provided to all that access the service.

Provide support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of smoking cessation service.

To support the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency.