Maternity Tobacco Dependency Advisor

Job summary

FIXED TERM FOR UNTIL MARCH 2025

The NHS Long Term Plan gives a commitment that all people admitted to or attend hospital that smoke will be offered NHS-funded tobacco treatment services by 2023/24. The Maternity Tobacco Dependency Advisor will be one of a small team of advisors who work across the trust providing individualised smoking cessation support to women and families in a flexible and innovative way.

The team will provide intermediate smoking cessation support throughout pregnancy and the post-natal period, using the support of interventions such as CO monitoring and Nicotine Replacement therapy.

Close liaison with local stop smoking services, midwives, Obstetricians and working closely with the Health improvement team and Public health department.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for candidates who do not have a visa at this time.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake relevant training to qualify as an intermediate smoking cessation Advisor and maintain the skills and knowledge as necessary through participation in continuous development.
• Identify and work with clients who are eligible for intermediate intervention smoking cessation conversations in a variety of different settings. These may be in a clinical area or home. Deliver a client-led treatment plan in concordance with national and local guidelines, effectively.
• Participate in educating pregnant clients as well as staff, about the benefits of stopping smoking in pregnancy and give support to those wanting to quit. Promote smoke free homes and support and advise clients and families about passive smoking.
• Deliver Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring to a high standard and engage in the data Collection and collation of CO rates in pregnancy and post-partum.
• Engage with the Smokefree pregnancy incentive scheme, keeping and maintaining accurate and up to date records enabling good data collection for monthly, contractual, and NHS Digital reporting. Creating, presenting, and submitting reports as requested to the SIP lead prior to deadlines.
• Work closely with the local stop smoking services and the PH team to ensure the work links to wider strategy.
• Plan and organise workload, this will include the management of a caseload.
• Deliver one to one, drop in or group sessions, which will have emphasis on supporting clients from local communities.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.