Tobacco Dependency Lead - Carlisle, United Kingdom - North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Tobacco Dependency Lead, fixed term for 12 months - Maternity cover


You will be accountable to the Stop Free Operational Lead and have line managerial responsibility for the Tobacco Dependency Advisors.


You will work as part of the tobacco dependency team at West Cumberland Hospital and Cumberland infirmary in a clinical and strategic role to develop and provide stop smoking treatment, counselling and support to NHS patients and clients in a variety of settings.

You will be required to support the day to day running of the onsite tobacco treatment service to ensure safe, well organized and evidenced based care is offered routinely to all identified smokers and provided to all that access the service.

You will provide support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of smoking cessation service. Additionally, you will support the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency.

The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding.

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive individual who has a willingness to provide a great service to our patients within a hospital and community environment.


We are committed to supporting our staff with their professional development, and the Trust advocates its values of kindness, respect, ambition and collaboration.


Duties include:

Support the delivery of the trust-wide tobacco dependency treatment implementation plan

Provide high quality stop smoking behavioural support and pharmacological advice in accordance with the NSCST (National Centre for Smoking Cessation Training) guidelines to those wishing to stop smoking


Provide tobacco dependency treatment and support across the acute hospital to support the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency.

Maintain a high standard of work and prioritise own workload according to the needs of the service

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people.

Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond.

We're responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time'.

Being a clinically led organisation

Quality and safety at the heart

A positive patient experience every time

A great place to work

Managing our money well


As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.


Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030.

There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust's sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.


We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.


Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies?

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

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