Community Tobacco Dependence Advisor

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a dedicated professional to join the Smokefree Team, delivering tobacco dependence treatment. This role offers 15 flexible working hours, Monday to Friday, with generous career progression pathways and development opportunities to support your career aspirations in clinical settings. Join us in making a positive impact on community health while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Career progression pathways

Ongoing training and development

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and hardworking approach.
• Organizational skills and ability to employ pragmatism.

Responsibilities

• Deliver tobacco dependence treatment via face-to-face and telephone consultations.
• Conduct data reviews/audits to develop the new service.
• Engage with clients for motivational and behavioural support.

Job description

Job overview

We welcome applications for candidates who want to work as part of the Smokefree Team at South London and Maudsley . The advertised role is based at The Pier Road Project, a community drug and alcohol advice and treatment service for adults living in the London Borough of Bexley.

This role provides an exciting, new, development opportunity to support people who are accessing treatment via The Pier Road Project and who are identified as tobacco dependent, to cut down and quit smoking! This is a new service, and there is lots of scope for the successful candidate to help shape and inform how to provide the best route to care for people that are referred.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways to senior clinical posts, education and training, and clinical research. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in addictions and tobacco dependence.

Main duties of the job

The primary role of the successful candidate will be to deliver tobacco dependence treatment to people who are referred. This will include face-to-face appointments (in clinic at The Pier Road Project, and potentially home visits or visits in the community), as well as telephone consultations. Treatment will include Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT), Vapes, and stop smoking medications (cytisine and varenicline), as well as frequent opportunities for motivational and behavioural support.

All treatment will and engagement will need to be recorded, and the successful candidate will participate and contribute to frequent data review / audit, to inform further development of this new service and be able to provide assurance to the Local Authority who are funding this work.

The role will lend itself to applicants who are enthusiastic, hardworking, practical, organised, and who can employ pragmatism when required; which, will help them to be able to deliver the best-possible care for the communities we serve.

Flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work 15 hours flexibly, Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8:00 to 5:00 giving you the very best of good work life balance.