Tobacco Dependency Advisor for Maternity Services - Community

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Warwick; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Maternity Tobacco Dependency Advisor to join our Public Health Team and continue the strong stop smoking in pregnancy support we offer. This community‑based post will cover Warwickshire and involve working with pregnant people and families to improve health outcomes.

You will engage with maternity services to implement the maternity smoke‑free pregnancy pathway, provide individualised stop smoking support, and help reduce inequalities in

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills with diverse groups.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise.
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and promoting vital public health outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide stop smoking support to pregnant people and families as part of the maternity tobacco dependency pathway.
• Collaborate with Public Health Team and maternity services to implement evidence-based cessation approaches.
• Engage with communities across Warwickshire to promote healthy behaviours and reduce smoking in pregnancy.

Skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Teamwork

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Public Health role within our Maternity Tobacco Dependency team to support smoking cessation for pregnant people.

Maternity at SWFT now have an “in‑house” model of stop smoking in pregnancy support, which meets the recommendations of Saving Babies Lives and the NHS Long Term Plan.

We need a Maternity Services Tobacco Dependency Advisor to join our Public Health Team and continue the strong provision of stop smoking in pregnancy support that we offer. This post is community‑based in the Warwickshire area and will involve supporting pregnant families to improve their immediate and longer‑term health. We support pregnant people booked at SWFT, GEH and UHCW(if they live in the Rugby area).

We are looking to recruit a motivated individual who fits our person specification. The post holder will be required to have great communication skills, be passionate about tackling the inequalities in health and work well within a small team. We are looking for an individual with good organisational skills who can engage with people well.

As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, all expectant women and birthing people and their partners will be offered support via a maternity smoke‑free pregnancy pathway. As part of this pathway all women and birthing people who smoke will be offered NHS funded tobacco cessation treatment and follow‑up support.

https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/online-version/chapter-2-more-nhs-action-on-prevention-and-health-inequalities/smoking/

The post holder will work with the Public Health Lead Midwife and the maternity team to achieve element 1 of the saving babies lives care bundle and reduce smoking in pregnancy by providing individualised stop smoking support to women and families in a flexible and innovative way.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/saving-babies-lives-care-bundle-version-two-v5.pdf

This post will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to stop smoking. It focuses on engaging with people in all maternity settings and offering them practical support to change their behaviour to achieve their own choices and goals. While supporting them to make positive health changes that will improve pregnancy & birth outcomes and longer‑term family health.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford‑Upon‑Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston‑on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion.