Treating Tobacco Dependence Advisor (Inpatients) Weston

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Treating Tobacco Dependency Advisor to join their Inpatient team at Weston General Hospital. This permanent role is suitable for motivated individuals with excellent listening and communication skills. Responsibilities include delivering behavioral support, developing care plans, and managing patient caseloads to help inpatients reduce tobacco dependency. The position offers an opportunity for development within a supportive multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Motivated individual capable of delivering specialist support.
• Experience in healthcare settings preferred.
• Understanding of health inequalities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver motivational and behavioral support to patients.
• Develop personalized care plans with patients.
• Manage a delegated caseload of patients.

Skills

Excellent listening skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to build relationships

Job description

We are looking for

a motivated individual to join our Inpatient team as a Treating Tobacco Dependency Advisor at Weston General Hospital (WGH).

This is a permanent full, or part-time role, which would also be very suitable as a developmental secondment opportunity for applicants currently in band 3 patient-facing roles.

The postholder will have excellent listening and communication skills and be able to quickly build trusting and collaborative relationships with patients, to help inpatients to stop smoking or to reduce the harm from tobacco during an inpatient admission.

This role is based at Weston General Hospital. The team operates across departments within North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and UHBW). The service core hours are 0830-1630 Monday-Friday.

The Advisor will deliver specialist motivational and behavioural support, develop personalised care plans in partnership with patients and facilitate access to appropriate pharmacotherapy and e-cigarettes / vouchers. The role will contribute to tackling health inequalities and focuses on engaging with inpatients, offering them support to motivate to change their behaviour and to achieve their stop smoking goals.

The Advisor will build and maintain effective working relationships with all professionals within the multidisciplinary team and act as a patient advocate to ensure that tobacco dependency treatment needs are met.

The Advisor will support the development of the day to day running of the service to ensure that patients receive safe, evidence-based care. The Advisor will manage a delegated caseload of patients, maintain accurate patient and service data records.

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialties. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals and treats all patients with respect and dignity. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

The successful candidate will be expected to spend most of their working time at UHBW but with the flexibility to travel to other sites for training and service review events.

Bristol is consistently voted the best place to live in the UK, with vibrant local music, arts and gastronomic scenes, a wide range of modern and state of the art shopping, recreation and leisure facilities, a wealth of great local family days out, fantastic transport links for local, national and internal holidays, and it has a rich history. If you prefer country, village or smaller town living, our Trust is also easily commutable from a range of attractive locations.