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Job overview

We are recruiting for a Maternity Stop Smoking Advisor who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

The Maternity Stop Smoking Advisor will provide stop smoking support to women and birthing people who are pregnant.  The MSSA will be provided with training to carry out the role.

This band 3 role is based primarily in the community and outpatient clinics.  The post holder will be required to have a driving licence and access to a car. The Midwife is ultimately responsible for the care of the mother and her new-born(s). The Maternity Stop Smoking Advisor (MSSA) works in collaboration with midwives and maternity support workers and reports to the Public Health Midwife.  The post holder is expected to undertake a set of defined competencies, including the ‘Care Certificate’ within the first 3 months of being in post. This job description is directly linked to The Maternity Support Worker Competency, Education and career Development Framework set out by Health Education England (HEE) https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/maternity/maternity-support-workers.

Main duties of the job

•         To provide continuous, consistent and evidence based stop smoking support to pregnant women and their partners.
•      To assist, support and work in collaboration with the Midwife and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) to provide a safe and holistic approach to women centred care. 

•          To support public health initiatives for women using the maternity services.

Working for our organisation

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.