Tobacco Dependence Treatment Specialist | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 p.a. pro rata incl. HCA |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6216334/196-LIS8365 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be a part of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team. We are looking for two experienced Tobacco Dependence Specialists who will enjoy working as part of a small team delivering tobacco dependence treatment to patients across our two hospital sites. The post holder will be involved in continuing the development and delivery of our services to meet the Long Term Plan for tobacco, including ward based interventions, outpatient clinics and MDT training. This will help to achieve the Trust commitment to drive a culture change towards prevention and to bring the promotion of optimised physical health and wellbeing into the mainstream.
The post holder will be expected to support the delivery of the tobacco dependence treatment sections of the Trust initiatives aimed at promoting and improving the health of patients including the LTP project and Vital 5 programmes.
Duties and responsibilities will include:
• To ensure that staff in the target clinical areas are trained in very brief advice (VBA) either through online package or face to face training.
• To monitor ward staff compliance with the core care, including screening on admission and initial withdrawal management, and further support staff with any issues resulting in non-compliance of this target
• Provide appropriate clinical interventions to patients to support time-limited withdrawal management and long-term smoking cessation
• To be responsible for delivery of the targets set.
• To set up, manage and deliver tobacco dependence outpatient clinics
• To be engaged and proactive with the further development and roll out of the tobacco dependence treatment programmes developed by the Trust throughout the hospital.
We are a small friendly team which has become well-established with a wealth of experience in tobacco dependence, led by the Trust's five Values and Behaviours:
• Put patients first - consider the patient’s needs and wishes in all that they do
• Take pride in what we do – strive for highest standards on own work and challenge colleagues to do the same
• Strive to be the best – in terms of patient care & teamwork
• Act with integrity - maintain the privacy & dignity of patients, work with integrity and be trustworthy, be accountable for own work
• Respect others – patients, visitors and colleagues. Actively give and receive feedback.
• To assess inpatients tobacco dependence, devise a treatment plan and ensure tobacco dependence care is given throughout the inpatient stay and post-discharge
• To uphold and actively support the Trust’s smoke-free status
• Ensure targets are met
• To deliver a range of effective tobacco dependence services using ward-based and out patient clinic-based support and provide telephone support for those smokers who are unable to attend face to face appointments.
• To manage a caseload of clients independently and prioritise service user needs
• Develop expertise in effective treatment programmes for people with a range of smoking related health conditions
• Plan and deliver a comprehensive and bespoke training programme to promote a systematic, proactive approach to tobacco dependence across the Trust.
• To utilise a range of different approaches to raise awareness of tobacco dependence services and to use all possible opportunities to generate referrals for patients
• To promote and facilitate the development of seamless care pathways and referral systems between professionals in acute settings, midwifery, community health services and primary care.
• To support the integration of the tobacco dependence service into broader health development initiatives
• To contribute to the ongoing development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of the tobacco dependence treatment service
Please see attached job description for full duties and responsibilities
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Apr 2024