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Stop Smoking Specialist AdvisorLewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust • London, United Kingdom
Stop Smoking Specialist Advisor

Stop Smoking Specialist Advisor

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust • London, United Kingdom
6 days ago
Job type
  • Part-time
  • Permanent
Job description
Job summary
Lewisham Stop Smoking Service has a 0.4 wte (two days per week) permanent vacancy for a Specialist Stop Smoking Advisor. This exciting role contributes to the delivery of the LGT Stop Smoking Service objectives and the wider objectives of the Trust by providing high-quality, expert stop smoking interventions to service users across the borough. With NCSCT and SCTRP qualifications as well as extensive experience delivering stop smoking interventions, the Stop Smoking Service Specialist Advisor will deliver community-based smoking interventions for a range of priority groups such as Pregnancy, Mental Health, and Routine and Manual Workers at a range of venues. The role will incorporate the requirement to support organisations to develop clear, effective pathways to assess, advise, and refer smokers for specialist support. Experience designing and delivering training and creating referral pathways is also required. PLEASE NOTE: We may not be able to offer sponsorship for this post

Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who can produce results in a challenging environment. As the SSS Specialist Advisor it will be your responsibility to provide high intensity stop smoking interventions as a part of the community stop smoking team. This role requires an ability to manage time and resources effectively to ensure that you hit targets and provide highly effective support for smokers who access the stop smoking service. Candidates with experience of delivering community-based stop smoking interventions would be ideally suited to this role, as would individuals with experience providing stop smoking interventions in acute settings.

About us
The Lewisham Stop Smoking Service is comprised of advisors, facilitators, coordinators, and administrators within Lewisham Hospital. The team will sit within the LGT Stop Smoking Services alongside the Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team to form an integrated treatment pathway for inpatients as they are discharged to the community. Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
  • Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
  • Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
  • Improving the experience of staff with disability
  • Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
  • Making equalities mainstream

Job responsibilities
  • Deliver an acute-based stop smoking service for all smokers including those who are pregnant, are living with a severe physical or mental health condition, or experience inequalities (as identified by the CORE20+5 or VITAL 5 approaches)
  • Provide effective stop smoking support for people who live, work, study or have a GP in Lewisham
  • Contribute to the service KPIs for all identified groups of smokers
  • Develop expertise in effective treatment programmes for people with a range of smoking related health conditions
  • Oversee the planning and delivery of outreach/promotional activity within the service
  • Understand nicotine addiction and the specific difficulties faced by smokers accessing services from LGT NHS Trust
  • Motivate clients to stop smoking and stay stopped
  • Give information on the benefits of smokefree homes for family health
  • Use evidence-based approaches based on NICE guidance, OHID guidance and recommendations from the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training
  • Develop good working relationships with professional staff and managers e.g. GPs/pharmacists, LGT ward and community services, Lewisham Council
  • Plan and create promotional material for distribution through community partnership forums and local comms teams to actively promote services
  • Plan and deliver a comprehensive training programme to promote a systematic, proactive approach to stopping smoking across the Trust and within the local community.
  • Ensure that community services/departments are providing Very Brief Advice (VBA) to refer patients for support
  • Work with other referrers in the community/hospital to increase the number of smokers using the service by designing and implementing bespoke referral pathways to the service

Qualifications & Training
Essential
  • Educated to degree level or appropriate professional qualification e.g. nursing, social work, counselling
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • NCSCT Full Advisor Certificate and Speciality Modules.

Desirable
  • SCTRP - Level Three. 'Setting Up and Running Specialist Stop Smoking Services'.

Experience
Essential
  • Substantial experience in delivering stop smoking interventions on a one-to-one or group basis
  • Substantial experience of advising use of stop smoking medications for people with complex health conditions.
  • Experience of delivering services in deprived communities
  • Substantial experience in delivering health improvement or community development programmes.
  • Experience of delivering public health initiatives which involve partnership work across agencies and professions
  • Able to negotiate, influence and motivate others including clinical leads, senior managers and staff
  • Experience of report writing
  • Experience of teaching and training
  • Experience of working with pregnant smokers
  • Able to interpret research and apply to practice
  • Able to analyse data to improve the service.
  • Able to use initiative and work independently with minimum supervision

Desirable
  • Delivering stop smoking group sessions
  • Can demonstrate a 4-week quit rate of >55% when working with smokers
  • Experience of writing communications to encourage behaviour change

Knowledge & Skills
Essential
  • In depth understanding of the relationship between smoking, health and inequality
  • Understanding of smoking related issues, including current OHID, NCSCT, and NICE guidelines.
  • Understanding of models of behavioural change
  • Understand potential of partnership work to increase
  • Good political and negotiating skills in order to work with a range of stakeholders including clinicians, commissioners, providers, voluntary and community groups
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and creativity
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills - to communicate well with a range of partners and the public
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate complex public health issues to clinicians, partner agencies and the public
  • Able to analyse data, evaluate projects, write reports and action plans
  • Able to use Windows, Microsoft applications, and input to clinical data systems.

Desirable
  • Awareness of local services within Lewisham that work with the homeless and asylum seeker populations.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details
Employer name: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address: University Hospital Lewisham, Lewisham High Street, London, SE13 6LH, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
Contact: Stop Smoking Team Lead, Matthew Seal, m.seal@nhs.net, 07500959448
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