Tobacco Dependency Team Lead - King's Lynn, United Kingdom - The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
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King's Lynn, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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We are recruiting for a Tobacco Dependency Team Lead who will have a unique opportunity to lead a new team of Tobacco Dependency Advisors (TDAs).

The Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service is a new team created to deliver the NHSE mandated treatment pathways for Maternity and Inpatient.

The role will represent a unique opportunity to lead a team of TDAs, who will be supporting pregnant people and inpatients to stop smoking and helping improve the health outcomes for the local population.


You will bring a positive mindset to the role, viewing Smoking Cessation as one of the biggest contributions we can make to tackling preventable health disease, and will inspire, motivate and lead the Tobacco Dependency Advisors to support people to stop smoking, through effective line management.


The role will also play an additional part in QEH Smokefree Site and the smoking cessation support offer for staff.


You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Tobacco Dependency Team to ensure safe, well organized and evidenced based care is offered routinely to all identified smokers and provided to all that access the service.

The team will be based across Acute Hospitals in Norfolk & Waveney, with this role based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

As a result, occasional travel to other Acute Hospitals will be required for the role.


You will also provide smoking cessation support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of tobacco dependence service and coordinate the TDAs to ensure service continuity across the two pathways.


The role will also monitor and evaluate the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency.

Ensuring the service is developed and enhanced when further national guidance is shared on smoking cessation.


The Team Lead will be instrumental in helping embed the TDAs across the Trusts in Norfolk & Waveney, providing leadership to the new TDAs and actively lead in the future development of the Tobacco Dependency Team.

There may be occasional evening and weekend work required to ensure continuity of the Tobacco Treatment service.


The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm.

The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.


We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.

We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.


In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).


We are delighted to have been added to the New Hospital Programme - and we look forward to bringing a new Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) to King's Lynn and West Norfolk which is nothing less than our patients, local communities and staff deserve.

For further details about this vacancy, please see the attached job description and person specification.


The Team Lead will be responsible for ensuring the TDAs are delivering the service across the Acute Hospitals, but whilst hosted by QEH within Clinical Support Services, the TDAs will be embedded within the Maternity Teams at each of the Trust, with clinical lead midwives appointed to provide clinical supervision to the TDAs and onsite maternity teams providing support.


You will provide management support to the Tobacco Dependency Advisors (TDAs), and managing your own workload as well as that of the TDAs on a day-to-day basis to ensure the individual targets and workload commitments are being met, time managed effectively and required administrative tasks undertaken to support their work.


You will provide regular support and supervision to the TDAs, and lead on the evaluation of activities and programmes to inform service delivery and development.

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