Tobacco Dependence Specialist

2 weeks ago


Blackpool, Blackpool, United Kingdom Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

It is the vision of Fylde Coast partners to create a tobacco free Fylde Coast and in turn remove all the health harms associated with tobacco addiction.

Key to this is supporting all partners to ensure that helping people to stop smoking and recognising smoking as an addiction is a collective and collaborative effort.


The NHS Long Term Plan identifies smoking as one of the top five risk factors that cause premature deaths in England.

As such, the NHS is investing in front line services to tackle tobacco dependence for all inpatients, pregnant women and their partners and high-risk outpatient service by 2023/24.


Our Local Authority commissioned Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service offers an integrated, safe, effective, and person-centred tobacco addiction and treatment service, providing high quality care through a combination of pharmacotherapy and psychological support, contributing to improving the health of Blackpool residents and tackling health inequalities as part of the wider Fylde Coast smoking cessation pathway.


As a Tobacco Dependence Specialist within our Local Authority commissioned Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service, you will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to stop smoking across Blackpool.

You will be responsible for pro-actively identifying clients and settings in which to deliver relevant interventions and work towards improving population health and reducing inequalities.

You will provide individualised and group support to people who wish to stop smoking, working in partnership with a wide range of individuals and organisations including primary care, acute hospitals, local authorities, workplaces, and local community groups.

You will also support the delivery of training in smoking cessation methods and brief interventions to other health professionals and those working in other organisations.

You will work collaboratively to delivery and support the development of the service.


Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre.

The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.


The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents, including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England.

Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance

Working patterns such as:

part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Service Provision


Provide an evidence-based specialist smoking cessation service within the designated locality contributing to the achievement of the services stop smoking targets.


Work with the Service Lead to arrange clinics, venues, and times in response to service specification priorities and to facilitate access to key target groups.


Deliver one to one support to service users based on their needs carrying our comprehensive assessments of referred or self-referred clients and working with the client to plan and develop a smoking cessation programme which will meet the needs of the individual.


In consultation with the service user, assess for and advise upon the most suitable pharmacological product and make a recommendation to the GP requesting an appropriate prescription if the service users choose a prescription only medicine.

Where nicotine replace therapy is required, to facilitate the safe delivery of this product to the service user.

Monitor the effects of the treatment programme and adjust as appropriate.


Employ the use of carbon monoxide monitoring as a motivational and validation tool, understanding how to use it supportively and explain its use to service users.


Plan, implement and evaluate smoking cessation groups in a variety of settings including primary care, community, and workplaces, arranging venues and times to respond to waiting times and caseload.


Implement the theory of group processes in managing groups and adapt the framework and content of the session where necessary.

Organise resources and appropriate information for service users.

Communication & Relationship Skills


To liaise with and empower patients to develop, implement and evaluate their own stop smoking plan, considering scientific evidence, NICE guidance, and the experiences of the individual patient.

Following assessment of the patient, to provide tailored support and motivational interviewing to patients, to gain commitment to quit.

To work within a framework of flexibility, acknowl

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