Tobacco Dependency Treatment Advisor

South Cumbria Nhs Foundation Trust; Clayton Brook; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a post to join a new Treating Tobacco Dependency Service offering specialist support to patients admitted to our inpatients sites across LSCft. The role will involve assessing needs, identifying treatment options, and enabling patients to make a successful quit attempt through face-to-face, remote or telephone consultations.

Travel to multiple sites across Lancashire and South Cumbria is expected.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients' needs related to tobacco dependency and work with them to identify treatment and specialist support to enable a successful quit attempt.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has a risen to join a new Treating Tobacco Dependency Service offering specialist support to patients admitted to our inpatients sites across LSCft. This service is key to delivering the ambitions of the NHS long term plan to provide treatment for tobacco dependency for all patients admitted to hospital, making a significant contribution to public health and reducing health inequalities.

This post is to cover Lancashire and South Cumbria, and the base will be confirmed with the successful applicant. Tobacco addiction is a chronic relapsing disease and the single biggest cause of preventable death, disability, illness and social inequality. One in two smokers die due to their smoking. People with mental health condition have higher rates of mortality compared to the general population and smoking is the single most contributing factor to their 10-20 year reduction in life expectancy.

Please note that this role does not offer sponsorship previous applicants need not apply

This post will involve working directly with patients to assess their needs related to tobacco dependency and to work with them to identify treatment and specialist support to enable them make a successful quit attempt. Support may be face to face, remote consultation or via telephone. We are looking for team members who are motivated, organised and dynamic who are passionate about supporting care and improving lives through engaging, motivating patients to stop smoking.

This is a role is diverse and will offer the opportunity to visits sites with the LSCft to deliver smoking cessation , deliver and training and to support the implementation of the Trust Tobacco Smoke Free Policy.

This post will require strong communication skills, teamwork and flexibility to ensure the service can provide a high quality service supporting patients across a variety of sites within Lancashire and South Cumbria.

There will be an expectation to travel to a variety of sites across Lancashire and South Cumbria therefore ability to meet the travel requirements of the role is essential.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here:Keeping our workforce well