Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment also available)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0638-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Canterbury/negotiable
- Town
- Canterbury
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Tobacco Dependency Advisor
NHS AfC: Band 4
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Physical health team for a year fixed term or secondment as a Tobacco dependency advisor to support our inpatients to stop smoking.
The role will support in delivering stop smoking assessments, specialist advice and support, including advice on stop smoking pharmacotherapy and e-cigarettes, working within recommended protocols and guidelines
Main duties of the job
- Promote the health and wellbeing of people who use the service through offering specialist stop smoking advice, information and support.
- Work with patients to change their behaviour to improve their health by stopping smoking (and, on occasions, support significant others e.g. partners/ parents/family members who smoke).
- Manage own caseload of patients and responsible for all associated tasks, including follow-up visits, and managing diary commitments.
- Act as a smoke free champion promoting the smoke free message through their day-to-day work.
- Support clinical staff to provide more effective stop smoking support for their patients, through providing up to date and evidence-based information and guidance.
- Provide specialist advice and support to staff, including delivering an education, training and awareness programme to help reduce harm from smoking and ensure KMPT remains a smoke free setting.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Responsible for management of day-to-day workload.
Communicate with a wide range of health professionals and other staff to advise them on effective methods of stop smoking behavioural support. - Work with a wide range of patients as part of their day-to-day work, including those with communication difficulties and adapt information and support provided accordingly
- Develop individually tailored stop smoking support plans including recommending treatments based on assessed needs and monitoring and adjusting plans as required.
- Provide information to people about stopping smoking, minimizing harm from tobacco and health-related issues in line with best guidance and protocols. Taking into consideration the wide range of diverse needs e.g. different forms of tobacco use, English as a second language Communicate using a range of resources that promote health improvement (mainly stopping smoking), adapting information and using different formats depending on both patient need (e.g. pregnant woman, adult inpatient) and for different staff groups or specialties.
Person specification
Training and qualifications
Essential criteria
- proficient in Microsoft excel
- NVQ level 3 in healthcare
Desirable criteria
- Level 2 NCSCT stop smoking advisor qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working with people with complex conditions such as severe mental health conditions or learning disabilities
- • Experience of providing healthcare, healthcare advice or health promotion advice to patients or members of the public
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of tobacco treatments
- • Experience of using stop smoking databases
- • Experience of delivering or assisting with lifestyle behavioural interventions in a group setting
Knowlegde and Skills
Essential criteria
- • Motivational skills
- • Administration skills using Outlook, Excel, Word, and patient database systems
- • Able to work across all KMPT sites in a timely manner
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to use carbon monoxide monitors
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- CHERYL CRAMER
- Job title
- Matron for IPC and Physical health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07557188205
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