Job summary
As our new Tobacco Dependency Advisor, you'll work in our mental health services to support patients to reduce or stop smoking. As a developmental post, we will support and encourage your career progression within our Trust.
People with severe mental illness are more likely to experience poorer physical health than the general population. In Coventry and Warwickshire, we want to be a lead for reducing health inequalities and this an exciting post to support this ambition.
You'll be at the forefront of this work, providing 1:1 behavioural stop smoking support and advice for people who wish to quit and to support temporary abstinence during a hospital admission. This will be for all acute adult inpatients, using the support of interventions such as brief advice, Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).
You'll also deliver tobacco harm reduction assessments, advice and support sessions, including advice on stop-smoking medications, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This will involve face-to-face sessions in a variety of settings and venues across the Trust.
You'll promote the general health and wellbeing of people who use the service by signposting them to healthy lifestyle advice and support services.
This role offers a genuine opportunity to reach a wide number of people with severe mental illness and address one of the biggest determinants of physical health; smoking.
Main duties of the job
For more information on this role please see the attached job description and person specification for more information. This will give you a better overview of the role and requirements.
About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- flexible working opportunities
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person Specification
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trusts Values
- Obtained an educational level of GCSE level A C English and Maths or equivalent.
- Smoking Cessation Training or willing to undertake within the 3 months of stating in post.
- Preferable NVQ/Diploma Level 3 or equivalent higher apprenticeship in healthcare. Experience of assessing patient needs and responding with relevant care plans
- Experience of supporting smoke free pathways
- Experience working as part of a team
- Experience of using computer systems and electronic records.
- Experience in working with patients in the delivery of the health promotion agenda.
- Ideally, experience of supporting patients who wish to give up smoking. Good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals / individuals from different professional backgrounds
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and listening
- Competent IT skills experience with WORD and EXCEL
- Able to present information, written and orally in an accurate clear and logical manner
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Ability to write accurate and legibly in patient notes
- Ability to communicate in situations where patients may be difficult or dismissive
- Enthusiastic
- Proactive
- Flexible
- Professional leadership qualities
- Flexibility to meet service needs
- Commitment to embed coproduction, lived experience and trauma informed approaches
- Able to take initiative when working alone
- Compassionate and caring nature
- Able to adapt to changing circumstances
- Recognition of own limitations
- Demonstrates enthusiasm
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person Specification
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trusts Values
- Obtained an educational level of GCSE level A C English and Maths or equivalent.
- Smoking Cessation Training or willing to undertake within the 3 months of stating in post.
- Preferable NVQ/Diploma Level 3 or equivalent higher apprenticeship in healthcare. Experience of assessing patient needs and responding with relevant care plans
- Experience of supporting smoke free pathways
- Experience working as part of a team
- Experience of using computer systems and electronic records.
- Experience in working with patients in the delivery of the health promotion agenda.
- Ideally, experience of supporting patients who wish to give up smoking. Good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals / individuals from different professional backgrounds
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and listening
- Competent IT skills experience with WORD and EXCEL
- Able to present information, written and orally in an accurate clear and logical manner
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Ability to write accurate and legibly in patient notes
- Ability to communicate in situations where patients may be difficult or dismissive
- Enthusiastic
- Proactive
- Flexible
- Professional leadership qualities
- Flexibility to meet service needs
- Commitment to embed coproduction, lived experience and trauma informed approaches
- Able to take initiative when working alone
- Compassionate and caring nature
- Able to adapt to changing circumstances
- Recognition of own limitations
- Demonstrates enthusiasm
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Smoking Cessation Training or willing to undertake within the 3 months of stating in post
Experience
Essential
- Good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals / individuals from different professional backgrounds
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
Other
Essential
- Independent means of transport to attend meetings trust wide
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Smoking Cessation Training or willing to undertake within the 3 months of stating in post
Experience
Essential
- Good knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals / individuals from different professional backgrounds
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
Other
Essential
- Independent means of transport to attend meetings trust wide
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.
