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Job summary

Main area
Maternity
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Secondment: 6 months
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (per annum)
Job ref
264-6409062-FAM
Employer
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Kettering General Hospital
Town
Kettering
Salary
£25,147 - £27,596 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
18/07/2024 08:00

Employer heading

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

Maternity Tobacco Dependence Advisor

Band 4

Job overview

This is a 6 month Secondment or fixed-term role to work with maternity team and other team members in providing individualised smoking cessation support to service users and their families in a flexible an innovative way.

Previous applicants do not need to apply.

Have an up to date driving licence and access to a car is essential to this role.

Main duties of the job

This post supports the NHS Long Term Plan commitment to improve prevention and achieving 50% reductions in stillbirth, maternal and neonatal mortality and serious brain injury by 2025. It will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting pregnant women to stop smoking. The NHS recognises smoking as a dependency and that it is a chronic, relapsing clinical condition that can kill at least half of people who smoke. Smoking is the single biggest preventable modifiable risk factor during pregnancy for improving an infant’s health and is linked to complications in pregnancy, stillbirth, premature births and sudden infant death syndrome. Smoking is seen as a medical condition that can be treated, rather than a lifestyle choice. The post holder will provide tobacco treatment advice and support women and their families to reduce their harm from tobacco.

This post will work under the line management of the Quality and Safety Matron and be supervised by a Stop Smoking Specialist (Public Health Northamptonshire) (matrix management). This will involve regular practice supervision with the Tobacco Dependence Advisor (Maternity) at the counterpart NHS Trust (KGH/NGH).

The role will be challenging yet rewarding as the services develop as part of the 4-year plan.

Working for our organisation

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values:

Compassion

Respect

Integrity

Courageous

Accountable

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.

Person specification

Education, Training, Qualifications and knowledge

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
  • Knowledge of the NHS Long Term Plan in relation to wider tobacco control and the prevention agenda
Desirable criteria
  • Smoking cessation Advisor Intermediate level qualification
  • A good level of understanding of evidence-based practice in relation to smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and benefits to quitting
  • An understanding of human behaviour in relation to making healthy lifestyle changes and decisions.

Key Competencies

Essential criteria
  • Have an in date driving licence and access to a car.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Saffron Hives
Job title
Health and Wellbeing Midwife
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01536 491476
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