Maternity Tobacco Dependency Advisor

6 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The post holder will work with the Smoke free pregnancy specialist midwife and other team members in providing individualised stop smoking support to women and families in a flexible and innovative way.

Plan and deliver stop smoking advice and support sessions, including advice on stop smoking medications, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This involves face to face, telephone and virtual appointments in a variety of settings and venues including home visits and working cross site within MFT.

Support a caseload of patients and develop individually tailored support plans including recommending treatments based on assessed needs.

Provide general health, lifestyle advice and support to people using the service e.g., healthy eating, physical activity, stress management. Signposting and referring to other health, community, and voluntary services when required.

Participate in educating pregnant women about the benefits of stopping smoking in pregnancy and support those women wanting to quit. Promote smoke free homes and support and advise women and families about secondhand smoke.

Have an extensive knowledge of the risks of smoking in pregnancy and be able to relay this information to women to enable them to make an informed decision about their care.

Excellent communication, listening and persuasive skills are valued along with a positive attitude towards change and maintaining a relationship with sometimes difficult or reluctant to engage clients.

Deliver Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring to a high standard and support CO screening in clinical practice as per CNST requirements.

Travel between hospital sites within MFT is expected and to carry out home visits.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

The post holder will support pregnant women and their families to embark on a quit attempt and to remain abstinent from tobacco during their pregnancy. You will ensure that the pregnant women and their families have the support required to remain smoke free.

This post will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to stop smoking. It focuses on engaging with people in communities and offering them practical support to change their behaviour to achieve their own choices and goals.

**The post holder will**:
Work with the Smoke free pregnancy specialist midwife to deliver stop smoking support, undertake delivery of the Smoke free pregnancy programme by providing intermediate stop smoking support throughout pregnancy and the postnatal period, using the support of interventions such as CO monitoring and Nicotine Replacement therapy.

As a smoke free champion across the Trust you will provide information, advice and support to patients and staff alike on stopping smoking, minimising harm from tobacco and health-related issues in line with best guidance and protocols. You will be involved in awareness raising sessions in the Trust, reinforcing the training provided to staff to reduce harm from tobacco and the promotion of our Trust smoke free policy.


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