Job summary
These exciting new roles will contribute to the delivery of the Oxleas Stop Smoking Service objectives and the wider objectives of the Trust by providing high-quality, expert stop smoking interventions to inpatients, outpatients, visitors, and staff. The Tobacco Dependence Treatment (TDT) Advisor will operationally deliver the smoking element of the NHS LTP by delivering a stop smoking by establishing a stop smoking service for mental health inpatient units based upon the Ottawa and CURE Models of Smoking Cessation and to support Oxleas in improving care for discharged mental health patients, ensuring continuity of care and enhancing quit outcomes. . We are looking for enthusiastic and dynamic individual (s) who can produce results in a challenging environment. As the TDT Advisor it will be your responsibility to deliver and the TDT service with the support of the TDT Lead. This role requires an ability to manage time and resources effectively to ensure that you hit targets and provide highly effective support for smokers who are admitted to our hospitals. Candidates with experience of providing stop smoking interventions and delivering training would be ideally suited to this role, as would individuals with clinical experience in the hospital setting. There are two full time posts . We would be happy speak to staff who would consider a secondment.
Main duties of the job
To contribute to the delivery of the Oxleas Tobacco Dependence Treatment Service objectives and the wider objectives of the Trust by providing high-quality, expert stop smoking interventions to inpatients and staff whilst driving a culture change towards prevention of ill-health and promoting physical health and wellbeing. The Tobacco Dependency Advisor will operationally deliver the smoking element of the NHS LTP by providing a stop smoking service for inpatients admitted to Greenparks House (Bromley), Oxleas House (Greenwich) or Woodlands and Barefoot Lodge (Bexley) based upon the Ottawa and CURE Models of Smoking Cessation. This role will provide front-facing, visible and accessible support by offering face-to-face onsite clinics to service users in each of the mental health inpatient wards in the Acute and Crisis Directorate.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Respond to all inpatient admissions of smokers
- To assess inpatients tobacco dependence, devise a treatment plan and ensure tobacco dependence care is given throughout the inpatient stay and after discharge
- Provide effective stop smoking support for inpatients and staff of the acute trust who want to stop smoking.
- Ensure a range of services are available in the Trust to meet different needs and preferences
- Develop expertise in effective treatment programmes for people with a range of smoking related health conditions
- Support the Very brief Advice (VBA) training programme to promote a systematic, proactive approach to stopping smoking across the Trust
- Offer support to all members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Support the implementation of policies and protocols for managing nicotine withdrawal for in-patients and access to medication
Job description
Job responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Respond to all inpatient admissions of smokers
- To assess inpatients tobacco dependence, devise a treatment plan and ensure tobacco dependence care is given throughout the inpatient stay and after discharge
- Provide effective stop smoking support for inpatients and staff of the acute trust who want to stop smoking.
- Ensure a range of services are available in the Trust to meet different needs and preferences
- Develop expertise in effective treatment programmes for people with a range of smoking related health conditions
- Support the Very brief Advice (VBA) training programme to promote a systematic, proactive approach to stopping smoking across the Trust
- Offer support to all members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Support the implementation of policies and protocols for managing nicotine withdrawal for in-patients and access to medication
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Professional registration
Essential
- appropriate professional registration e.g. nursing, psychology, allied health professional
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of delivering effective stop smoking interventions on a one to one or group basis
- Substantial experience of advising use of stop smoking medications for people with complex health conditions
- Experience of delivering initiatives which involve partnership work across agencies and professions
- Experience of motivational interviewing
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Professional registration
Essential
- appropriate professional registration e.g. nursing, psychology, allied health professional
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of delivering effective stop smoking interventions on a one to one or group basis
- Substantial experience of advising use of stop smoking medications for people with complex health conditions
- Experience of delivering initiatives which involve partnership work across agencies and professions
- Experience of motivational interviewing
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).
