Treating Tobacco Dependence Advisor

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Job Overview
Treating Tobacco Dependency Advisor - Inpatients - NBT/ UHBW Applicants Only
We are looking for a motivated individual to join our Inpatient team as a Treating Tobacco Dependency Advisor at Weston General Hospital (WGH).

This is a permanent full, or part-time role, which would also be very suitable as a developmental secondment opportunity for applicants currently in band 3 patient-facing roles.

The postholder will have excellent listening and communication skills and be able to quickly build trusting and collaborative relationships with patients, to help inpatients to stop smoking or to reduce the harm from tobacco during an inpatient admission.

This role is based at Weston General Hospital. The team operates across departments within North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and UHBW). The service core hours are Monday-Friday.

Main duties of the job

The Advisor will deliver specialist motivational and behavioural support, develop personalised care plans in partnership with patients and facilitate access to appropriate pharmacotherapy and e-cigarettes/vouchers. The role will contribute to tackling health inequalities and focuses on engaging with inpatients, offering them support to motivate to change their behaviour and to achieve their stop smoking goals.

The Advisor will build and maintain effective working relationships with all professionals within the multidisciplinary team and act as a patient advocate to ensure that tobacco dependency treatment needs are met.

The Advisor will support the development of the day to day running of the service to ensure that patients receive safe, evidence-based care. The Advisor will manage a delegated caseload of patients, maintain accurate patient and service data records.

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialties. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals and treats all patients with respect and dignity. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

The successful candidate will be expected to spend most of their working time at UHBW but with the flexibility to travel to other sites for training and service review events.

Bristol is consistently voted the best place to live in the UK, with vibrant local music, arts and gastronomic scenes, a wide range of modern and state of the art shopping, recreation and leisure facilities, a wealth of great local family days out, fantastic transport links for local, national and internal holidays, and it has a rich history. If you prefer country, village or smaller town living, our Trust is also easily commutable from a range of attractive locations.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached as PDFs to this advert.
Care/Service Provision

• To plan and deliver stop smoking advice and support sessions, including advice on stop smoking medications, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This will involve working with individuals in-person and on the phone and group work sessions in a variety of settings and venues.
• Identify and approach service users who are eligible for tobacco dependence conversations and treatment whilst an inpatient.
• Provide specialist behavioural and motivational support as part of personalised care plans.
• Refer patients to community services to continue with the stop smoking attempt.
• Develop individually tailored support plans including recommending treatments based on assessed needs.
• Provide general health, lifestyle advice and support to people using the service.
• Participate in educating inpatients about the benefits of stopping smoking whilst in hospital and upon discharge.
• Deliver Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring, record the results and ensure the patient understands the result.
• Engage with the targeted treating tobacco dependency intervention, keeping accurate records and enable good data collection. Always maintain accurate up to date and comprehensive records.
• Ensure that the relevant equipment is provided and maintained on an agreed schedule. Report any failings of equipment or other environmental factors to the Clinical Lead.
• Respond effectively to referrals within stated timescales.
• To be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of patient/client feedback, offering recommendations as part of the team to improve services.
• Be aware of how to report incidents, concerns or complaints and escalate any concerns or complexities to the Clinical Lead.

Monitoring And Administrative Tasks

• To contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of the service, including the completion of the minimum data set requirement. This will include following up patients who do not attend for planned support.
• Maintain accurate patient records in line with Trust guidelines.
• Ensure administrative duties are carried out efficiently and effectively in order to meet the needs of the service.

Team Working

• Contribute actively to open discussions of how local services can be improved, supporting improvements within the local community, and demonstrating an understanding of the barrier's individuals are experiencing.
• Play an active role in the development of the Treating Tobacco Dependency service targets and work collaboratively with team members to share best practice and information to achieve these.
• Work closely with the local stop smoking services and the local Public Health teams to ensure the work links to wider strategy.
• Meet regularly with the Clinical Lead to assess and direct progress.
• To maintain good working relationships with all levels of staff.
• To liaise with others in the health and social care community in order to promote the tackling tobacco dependence programme and treating tobacco dependency intervention and encourage appropriate referrals.
• To support the delivery of tobacco dependency training to the multidisciplinary team.

Managing Self

• Undertake relevant training to maintain the skills and knowledge as necessary through participation in continuous development.
• Work with indirect minimal supervision from the Clinical Lead, operating at all times within the assessed level of competence. Clear professional boundaries and limitations will be discussed and monitored by the Clinical Lead.
• Work within the agreed and relevant policies and procedures and know how to access them.
• Seek advice and support as and when appropriate.
• Plan own activities, sessions and care plans to meet the needs of patients within the service.

The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give a broad flavour of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the post holder.
Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• GCSE level English and Mathematics or equivalent.
• NVQ level 3/4 or equivalent health related studies OR substantial successful experience delivering stop smoking interventions/support.

Desirable criteria

• Motivational Interviewing/supporting behaviour change qualification

Experience
Essential criteria

• Recent experience of working with patients in the NHS in an Acute, Community or relevant setting, within the last 2 years
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience of communicating health information and advice using a person-centred approach

Desirable criteria

• Experience of providing healthcare, healthcare advice, health promotion advice on a one to one advice interventions basis or as part of a group setting

Skills
Essential criteria

• A good level of understanding of evidence-based practice in relation to treating tobacco dependency, the consequences of smoking and benefits to quitting
• An understanding of human behaviour in relation to making healthy lifestyle changes and decisions related to tobacco dependency
• The ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with professionals/individuals from a variety of different professional background
• Be able to provide evidence of excellent listening and communication skills (both written and verbal).
• The ability to quickly build rapport with patients with varying health needs and from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds
• Good standard of computer skills
• Ability to act, where appropriate, as the patient advocate to ensure that tobacco dependency treatment needs are met during an inpatients stay and on discharge to the community

Desirable criteria

• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload and coordinate own schedule without direct supervision.
• Accurate and sufficient record keeping

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North Bristol NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT's workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.