Tobacco Dependency Advisor

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Physical health team for a year fixed term or secondment as a Tobacco dependency advisor to support our inpatients to stop smoking.

The role will support in delivering stop smoking assessments, specialist advice and support, including advice on stop smoking pharmacotherapy and e-cigarettes, working within recommended protocols and guidelines

Main duties of the job

• Promote the health and wellbeing of people who use the service through offering specialist stop smoking advice, information and support.
• Work with patients to change their behaviour to improve their health by stopping smoking (and, on occasions, support significant others e.g. partners/ parents/family members who smoke).
• Manage own caseload of patients and responsible for all associated tasks, including follow-up visits, and managing diary commitments.
• Act as a smoke free champion promoting the smoke free message through their day-to-day work.
• Support clinical staff to provide more effective stop smoking support for their patients, through providing up to date and evidence-based information and guidance.
• Provide specialist advice and support to staff, including delivering an education, training and awareness programme to help reduce harm from smoking and ensure KMPT remains a smoke free setting.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Responsible for management of day-to-day workload.Communicate with a wide range of health professionals and other staff to advise them on effective methods of stop smoking behavioural support.
• Work with a wide range of patients as part of their day-to-day work, including those with communication difficulties and adapt information and support provided accordingly
• Develop individually tailored stop smoking support plans including recommending treatments based on assessed needs and monitoring and adjusting plans as required.
• Provide information to people about stopping smoking, minimizing harm from tobacco and health-related issues in line with best guidance and protocols. Taking into consideration the wide range of diverse needs e.g. different forms of tobacco use, English as a second language Communicate using a range of resources that promote health improvement (mainly stopping smoking), adapting information and using different formats depending on both patient need (e.g. pregnant woman, adult inpatient) and for different staff groups or specialties.