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Tobacco Dependence Specialist Advisor
| Posting date: | 10 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,806.00 to £53,134.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £44806.00 - £53134.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 February 2025 |
| Location: | Tooting, SW17 7DJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9294-25-0088 |
Summary
Key Responsibilities The advisor will work with trust inpatient services to provide an evidence-based stop smoking service by: Offering smokers on the wards NHS-funded tobacco treatment services. Delivering 1:1 and group smoking cessation interventions for inpatients across all trusts wards. Establishing systems and processes to allow inpatients to access evidence-based smoking cessation interventions in-house and, in the community, and record results. Support to mental health staff to provide smoking cessation interventions. Building a culture whereby all service users are offered the opportunity to stop smoking and receive support to achieve a quit status. Strengthen and embed the Ottawa Smoking Cessation Model within inpatient wards. Ensuring that service users have access to psychosocial and pharmacological support to help them to cope with tobacco or nicotine dependence. Act as a subject matter expert, advising community services of the most appropriate support they can provide to their service users; based on knowledge of each local community stop smoking service provision and public health commissioning intentions. Key link and liaison between the inpatient wards, mental health community teams and our local stop smoking services. The post holder will be expected to establish therapeutic relationships with smokers whilst in hospital and will utilise referral pathways to support patients to access care post discharge in community settings. Liaising with mental health community teams, clozapine clinics, out-patient departments, Recovery College, and local stop smoking services including GPs and Pharmacies will also be required. Delivering Smoking Cessation Level 1 and 2 training programmes for trust staff and equipping staff with appropriate skills to enable them to support patients to quit, reduce or temporarily abstain from smoking and making appropriate referrals to the smokefree team.