Job summary
The Maternity Smoke-Free Lead Practitioner role will contribute to tackling health inequalities by promoting and supporting Smoke-Free Pregnancies across the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Systems.
It will focus on engaging service users and their families to adopt healthy lifestyles by providing tobacco dependence treatment in line with Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle v3.2, NICE Guidance, and the NHS Long Term Plan.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will establish and maintain communication with service users who smoke, for which strong interpersonal skills are essential. A commitment to working collaboratively with community stakeholders, service users and carers to help reduce health inequalities across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is necessary.
The post holder will deliver evidence-based interventions that focus on behaviour change, and licensed treatment aids for which training can be offered to enable delivery.
Lead and manage a dedicated team of professionals committed to advancing smoke-free practices for pregnant service users. Develop and implement effective strategies to raise awareness and support smoking cessation. Accurately maintain and complete detailed data records to monitor progress and outcomes precisely.Collaborate with healthcare providers to ensure comprehensive and effective care for our service users.
About us
Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust's redeployment process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See the attached job description and personal specification for complete information on the role requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See the attached job description and personal specification for complete information on the role requirements.
Person Specification
Education/Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE level standard, incl. Maths and English
- NVQ Level 3 in the associated topic or equivalent plus additional diploma-level training.
- NCSCT smoking in pregnancy practitioner registered
- Knowledge and understanding of Data Protection, Patient Confidentiality and Information Governance
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products, including Excel, Word and Outlook.
- Relevant qualification in public health, nursing, or a maternity-related field
Desirable
- Leadership or Customer Service Qualification
- Education/teaching qualification or experience
- Accredited Health Education and Promotion qualification
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate sound knowledge of the impact smoking has on pregnancy. Knowledge and understanding of NICE Guidelines
- Strong leadership and team management skills
- Experience of working in maternity care, with evidence of implementing or participating in change
- Proven experience of meeting regular targets and deadlines
- Experience using hospital systems, including PAS, E Track, Evolve, and K2.
- Experience in providing healthcare, healthcare advice, or health promotion advice to patients or members of the public
- Experience in customer service in a healthcare environment, e.g. reception and call centre
- Knowledge and experience of working with different methods of stop smoking aids such as vapes, nicotine replacement therapy and incentive schemes
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Motivated and enthusiastic, able to meet set targets, often working under pressure.
- Good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking in pregnancy and the benefits of quitting
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise work.
- Exceptional communication and organisational skills
- Able to demonstrate initiative, innovate, be proactive and work unsupervised
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals/individuals from different backgrounds.
- Understanding and ability to prepare and evaluate data to monitor trends for service improvement
- Knowledge of principles of health promotion and issues of health inequality
Communication
Essential
- Enthusiasm and ability to motivate self and others.
- Enthusiasm and ability to motivate self and others. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of clinical and other administrative staff across a wide range of clinical specialities.
- To have well-developed listening skills and easily build rapport with service users through clear verbal communication.
- Ability to influence and motivate staff to help foster stop smoking culture within the trust
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- To understand and role model the Trust Personal Responsibility Framework daily.
- To demonstrate compassion
- To demonstrate a willingness to develop and improve the service.
- To support, encourage and nurture positive working relationships
- To be actively respectful towards colleagues and service users.
- To always put patients first.
other
Essential
- A satisfactory enhanced DBS check against vulnerable groups barred lists
Person Specification
Education/Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE level standard, incl. Maths and English
- NVQ Level 3 in the associated topic or equivalent plus additional diploma-level training.
- NCSCT smoking in pregnancy practitioner registered
- Knowledge and understanding of Data Protection, Patient Confidentiality and Information Governance
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products, including Excel, Word and Outlook.
- Relevant qualification in public health, nursing, or a maternity-related field
Desirable
- Leadership or Customer Service Qualification
- Education/teaching qualification or experience
- Accredited Health Education and Promotion qualification
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate sound knowledge of the impact smoking has on pregnancy. Knowledge and understanding of NICE Guidelines
- Strong leadership and team management skills
- Experience of working in maternity care, with evidence of implementing or participating in change
- Proven experience of meeting regular targets and deadlines
- Experience using hospital systems, including PAS, E Track, Evolve, and K2.
- Experience in providing healthcare, healthcare advice, or health promotion advice to patients or members of the public
- Experience in customer service in a healthcare environment, e.g. reception and call centre
- Knowledge and experience of working with different methods of stop smoking aids such as vapes, nicotine replacement therapy and incentive schemes
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Motivated and enthusiastic, able to meet set targets, often working under pressure.
- Good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking in pregnancy and the benefits of quitting
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise work.
- Exceptional communication and organisational skills
- Able to demonstrate initiative, innovate, be proactive and work unsupervised
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals/individuals from different backgrounds.
- Understanding and ability to prepare and evaluate data to monitor trends for service improvement
- Knowledge of principles of health promotion and issues of health inequality
Communication
Essential
- Enthusiasm and ability to motivate self and others.
- Enthusiasm and ability to motivate self and others. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of clinical and other administrative staff across a wide range of clinical specialities.
- To have well-developed listening skills and easily build rapport with service users through clear verbal communication.
- Ability to influence and motivate staff to help foster stop smoking culture within the trust
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- To understand and role model the Trust Personal Responsibility Framework daily.
- To demonstrate compassion
- To demonstrate a willingness to develop and improve the service.
- To support, encourage and nurture positive working relationships
- To be actively respectful towards colleagues and service users.
- To always put patients first.
other
Essential
- A satisfactory enhanced DBS check against vulnerable groups barred lists
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Address
(Pan-site working) Peterborough City Hospital
Edith Cavell Campus
Bretton Gate, Bretton, Peterborough
PE3 9GZ
Employer's website
https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
