Secondary Care Tobacco Dependency Advisor at Pioneering Care Partnership
Contract Type: Fixed term
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Part time
Application deadline:
Based: Hybrid
Salary: £25,190 Pro Rata
Salary Type: Fixed Salary
Location: County Durham
Role description: Project Support
Job Purpose
- To have a primary focus on working in maternity settings and providing smoking cessation clinics for pregnant women across County Durham.
- To work with the onsite tobacco treatment service and specialist to provide behavioural support and treatment in relation to tobacco dependency.
- To support the day to day running of the onsite tobacco dependency service to ensure safe, well organised and evidenced based care is offered routinely to all identified smokers and provided to all that access the service. Provide support in a range of settings as required for the delivery of smoking cessation service.
- To support the delivery of the service key performance and reporting indicators for tobacco dependency.
Job Description
- Organise own workload and work unsupervised in a busy team. Maintain a high standard of work and prioritise own workload according to the needs of the service, individual needs including equality, diversity and social inclusion in all aspects of work.
- Take referrals, including self-referrals into the service and work with individuals to identify the most appropriate tobacco dependency treatment pathway.
- Identify and engage with individuals and groups from target areas.
- Support individuals to make informed choices about their health and wellbeing and support them in initiating and sustaining appropriate behavioral changes to improve their health.
- Record and report activities and results.
- Develop and sustain tobacco dependency support and referrals into the Local Community services.
- Travel is required within the designated service location, including occasional regional travel.
- The tobacco dependency service will operate seven days each week.
Analytical Skills
- Ability to make judgements involving facts or situations, some requiring analysis
- Assess client condition through basic observations such as carbon monoxide measurement and report as appropriate.
- To be able to collect service user data to enable assessment of a suitable individually tailored health plan.
- Support effective evaluation systems within the service.
- Operate under the appropriate provision of pharmacotherapy medication protocols.
Planning & Organisational Skills
- Plan and organise activities, such as clinics
- Prioritise the delivery of care to clients under the instruction of qualified staff.
- Ensure that patients are followed up within the guidelines to support a quit attempt
- Contribute to the long-term development of the onsite tobacco dependency treatment service.
- Plan own workload within role boundaries and under the management and guidance of the Tobacco Treatment Specialist.
- Plan own work to ensure that individual targets and workload commitments are being met and manage time effectively.
- To enter relevant information regularly to an electronic database.
Patient/Client care
- Assess and develop treatment plans for patients identified as smokers and throughout the treatment period
- Implement treatment plans and provide behavioural support to patients who engage with the Tobacco Dependency Service.
- To work with patients on a one to one or group basis where appropriate to assess and agree a treatment and support plan to meet their individual requirements.
- Communicate smoking related issues in relation to an individual patient’s care package in a holistic way e.g. working closely with maternity or hospital services. To communicate this effectively both to the patient and to the staff groups involved in relevant context.
- Report to the relevant tobacco dependency specialist or service manager on interventions and outcomes on a regular basis.
- Ensure that the service adopts a Making Every Contact Count (MECC) approach in contacts with patients.
- Develop and maintain relationships with individuals and their families to educate, facilitate and promote change.
- Facilitate any transfer of care into Community Stop smoking provision, such as LA SSS.
- Signpost individuals to other appropriate services to further support their health and wellbeing needs.
- Take and record patients carbon monoxide monitor readings
- Maintain patient confidentiality.
- Advise patients on the use of stop smoking pharmacotherapy, including NRT and E-Cigarettes.
- Practice safely within infection, prevention and control measures
Policy & Service Development
- Follow policies, participate in discussions on proposed changes to procedures.
- Contribute to the monitoring, evaluation and audit of the secondary care tobacco dependency service. The post holder is expected to ensure their own practice meets the requirements, as well as considering and recommending improvements to the whole team.
- Keep up to date with local and national policies and guidelines that impact on their role, and participates in CPD.
- Contribute to service development and improvement and takes a participatory role in implementing agreed changes.
- Participate in evaluation of activities and programmes to inform service delivery and development.
Information Resources
- Record personally generated information, contribute to updating patient records and comply with the data entry and monitoring requirements of the service.
- Support the development and dissemination of publicity and support materials for the service, in collaboration with the communications team and the service.
- Ensure that any database or client related data are correctly stored, processed and secured in line with departmental and Trust policies and to comply with IG requirements.
- Assist with audits, surveys, research and development activities to support improvement in practice.