Tobacco Dependency Advisor

3 weeks ago

Romford, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

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Job overview

B3 Tobacco Dependency Advisor – 30 hours per week (Mon-Fri)

Secondment opportunity or 10-month fixed term contract to start as soon as possible

We are currently looking to recruit a Tobacco Dependency Advisor for a period of 10 months to join a positive, progressive, and dynamic team within the Havering Directorate. The successful candidate will support the delivery of an 18-month stop smoking pilot programme for service users with a severe mental illness.

The programme will recognise smoking as an addiction (tobacco dependency) and that it is a chronic relapsing clinical condition that prematurely kills at least half of the people who smoke. Smoking is seen as a medical condition that can be treated rather than it being a lifestyle choice.

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Main duties of the job

The pilot which aims to provide a tailored programme of support to service users with an SMI to reduce the prevalence of smoking, morbidity, mortality, and health inequalities resulting from smoking through a flexible and intensive 12-week programme. The service will be integrated into the Havering Community Mental Health and Wellness teams for the wider benefit of service users and directly supported by the Social Inclusion & Resources Manager, and Tobacco Dependency Lead, to ensure that the service adopts a Making Every Contact Count (MECC) approach in contacts with service users. 

The post holder will deliver the 12-week programme, ‘set a quit date’ with service users prior to delivering the programme, undertake tobacco harm reduction (smoking cessation) assessments, provide support sessions including advice on stop smoking medications, tobacco dependency pharmacotherapy, and vapes, working within recommended protocols and guidelines, under expert supervision.

The post holder will be working with service users with a severe mental illness in a variety of settings and venues across the Havering Integrated Care Directorate, through face to face, group, and individual sessions, telephone support, family support (interventions with family present), online and text support and will contribute to tackling inequalities in health to enable the service user to reduce or quit smoking.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735 pro rata for part time).

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Key Responsibilities:

To deliver a 12-week programme of support to service users who are referred to the service. To deliver tobacco harm reduction assessments, advice, and support sessions, including advice on stop smoking medications and vapes. To provide 1:1 and group behavioural support and advice to service users with an SMI who wish to switch to a vape and access nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). To understand the range of interventions available, the evidence base and potential outcomes for service users and apply appropriate either in group or individual settings. To contribute to individual Tobacco Dependence care plans including robust record keeping To contribute to individual risk assessments around Tobacco Dependence and ensuring information is shared with the wider team. To develop and maintain relationships with service users and their families/carers to educate, facilitate and promote change. To promote general health and wellbeing of people who use the service To signpost and refer to other community harm-reduction services. To report observations and relevant information including any changes in service users physical and mental health, and behaviour to professional qualified staff. To record observations and relevant information in the service users’ electronic patient record To ensure all documentation is in line with the Data Protection Act, and ensure appropriate action is taken to safeguard patient confidentiality/confidential information. To respect the dignity, privacy, and independence of service users at all times and act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs and activity, supporting patients to be able to fulfil these. To identify and take action when any behaviour undermines diversity and equality. To attend and actively participate in training and development sessions and supervision.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Level 2 Maths and English Degree or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience as a tobacco dependency advisor Experience of working with clients with SMI who want to give up smoking Experience of successful staff engagment

Knowledge

Essential criteria

understanding if effective approaches to stopping smoking understanding of harmful affects of smoking for people with SMI understanding of effective ways of working with different populations

Skills

Essential criteria

skills communications and relationship skills Good oral and written skills use of Microsoft office including word, excel outlook, excel

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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