Tobacco Dependence Treatment Manager - Acute

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS foundation trust in Camden Town is seeking a dynamic leader to oversee the Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team. This role involves strategic management of stop smoking services, enhancing both inpatient and outpatient interventions. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in tobacco dependence treatment and healthcare management, with responsibilities including team leadership and partnership collaboration.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Experience in leading tobacco dependence treatment services.
• Strong background in healthcare management.
• Ability to collaborate with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic framework for stop smoking services.
• Manage the team for Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment.
• Work with healthcare professionals to implement Long Term Plan policies.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Partnership working

Tobacco dependence treatment

Healthcare professional collaboration

Education

Relevant healthcare qualification

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity to lead the Guy's and St Thomas' Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team, with responsibility for the Guy's Hospital site. We are seeking a dynamic leader with a strong background in directing and delivering a range of tobacco dependence treatment interventions in the acute environment. As the team evolves, you will lead new developments and delivery of existing inpatient and outpatient clinics across our two hospital sites.

Areas of work include continuing the development and delivery of services to meet the Long Term Plan for tobacco, including ward-based interventions, outpatient clinics and MDT training. We are about to roll out the COSTED programme in ED and contribute to the Vital 5 agenda. This will help drive a culture change towards prevention and promote optimised physical health and wellbeing in the Trust.

Duties

• To provide the strategic framework, development, and operational management of the Trust's stop smoking services.
• Provide day-to-day line management to the Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment team.
• Partnership working with SEL ICB and community tobacco dependence treatment colleagues to support delivery of services to GSTT patients.
• Work with healthcare professionals to ensure Long Term Plan policies for patients who smoke in a smoke-free hospital environment are implemented.
• Support, develop and implement other stop smoking initiatives, e.g. Stop before the Op, Costed.
• Promote the stop smoking referral system across all hospital departments.

Working for our organisation

We are a small friendly team with extensive experience in tobacco dependence, guided by the Trust's values:

• Caring – patient- and person-centred care; we listen, are compassionate, respectful and welcoming.
• Ambitious – we innovate and strive for excellence; we act with integrity, welcome feedback, and seek improvements to care and experience; we are efficient and committed to growth.
• Inclusive – we respect diversity and collaborate; we are building an anti-racism organisation and seek opportunities to collaborate; we show sensitivity to cultural diversity.

Essential responsibilities and strategic priorities

• Lead the development, management, monitoring and evaluation of Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment services, ensuring alignment with national and local requirements, Trust and national guidance.
• Act as the Trust's expert resource for tobacco dependence support and be the first point of contact for related queries and information requests.
• Undertake training needs assessments across clinical services so staff can provide first-line health promotion advice and screen patients in hospital-based services for support and onward referral.
• Continue to develop and implement the Long Term Plan initiative across inpatient specialties.
• Collaborate with partners, including the SEL ICB, to address health inequalities as a priority for the Trust as an acute provider of care, and raise awareness of the links between smoking, ill-health and inequality.
• Support the Tobacco Dependence Treatment Lead in strategic planning with the SEL ICB and internal Trust management to embed tobacco dependence treatment in healthcare culture and to meet local and national targets.
• Assist with liaising with finance teams to quantify cost implications of new systems and processes and to develop funding approval business cases.
• Work with Trust colleagues to raise awareness of how to access tobacco dependence treatment across the Trust and community.
• Provide specialist advice and support to service providers, healthcare professionals and management teams within the organisation.
• Engage in partnerships relevant to tobacco dependence treatment (e.g., London Tobacco Control Network, London Tobacco Dependence Acute Leads).

Equality, diversity and opportunities

Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values diversity. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitably. We are committed to ensuring no discrimination on grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/paternity, or marital/civil partnership. Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability and reasonable adjustments can be made throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

Flexible working and recruitment information

We are committed to flexible working to support a healthy work-life balance and to meet service needs. Some staff groups may be asked to work evenings or weekends. We will consider all requests to work flexibly and encourage applicants to discuss their circumstances with the recruiting manager during onboarding.

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Organisational context

NHS AfC: Band 7. Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK’s busiest NHS foundation trusts, providing hospital and community services across south London and beyond, including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services. We are part of King’s Health Partners and collaborate with King’s College London on clinical research facilities. We are proud of our patient-centred care and our commitment to high-quality, safe and efficient services.

Note: This description reflects the current requirements and structure at the time of posting. All content is subject to change in line with service needs.