Senior Tobacco Dependency Advisor | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | King's Lynn, PE30 4ET |
| Company: | Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6182243/426-096-24CC |
Summary
We are recruiting 2 part time Senior Tobacco Dependency Advisors (TDAs) to join an exciting new team that’s part of a unique system wide collaborative approach and delivery to support Smokefree Pregnancies, hosted by QEH.
The post will be based at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH). Travelling to Community hubs for NNUH will be required for the role.
The posts are offered at 30 hours per week each however there is a degree of flexibility available.
Interviews will take place via Teams.
The Senior Tobacco Dependency Advisor role will contribute to tackling health inequalities through promoting and supporting Smokefree Pregnancies at the three Acute Hospitals across Norfolk and Waveney. It will focus on engaging pregnant women and their families to adopt healthy lifestyles through providing tobacco dependence treatment in line with Saving Babies Lives and NICE Guidelines.
We are seeking highly motivated individuals to join a new Maternity Stop Smoking Service which has been developed as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The post holders will be responsible for establishing and maintaining communication with pregnant women who smoke, in which strong interpersonal skills are essential to developing Treatment Care plans and supporting throughout the pregnancy. A commitment to working collaboratively with community stakeholders, service users and carers, to help reduce health inequalities across Norfolk and Waveney is essential. The post holders will be delivering evidence-based interventions that focus on behaviour change, and licenced treatment aids of which training can be offered to enable delivery.
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate the core values of the NHS, reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes for all.
There will be occasional weekend and evening work required for the role.
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.
For further details about this vacancy, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Whilst hosted by QEH within Clinical Support Services, the successful Senior TDAs will be embedded within the Maternity Teams at NNUH, with clinical lead midwives assigned to a Senior TDA to provide clinical supervision and onsite maternity teams providing additional support.
This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Apr 2024