In House Tobacco Dependency Advisor for Maternity Services

As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, all expectant women and birthing people and their partners will be offered support via a maternity smoke-free pregnancy pathway. As part of this pathway all women and birthing people who smoke will be offered NHS funded tobacco cessation treatment and follow up support.

https: //www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/online-version/chapter-2-more-nhs-action-on-prevention-and-health-inequalities/smoking/

The post holder will work with the Public Health Lead Midwife and the maternity team to achieve element 1 of the saving babies lives care bundle and reduce smoking in pregnancy by providing individualised stop smoking support to women and families in a flexible and innovative way.

https: //www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/saving-babies-lives-care-bundle-version-two-v5.pdf

This post will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to stop smoking. It focuses on engaging with people in all maternity settings and offering them practical support to change their behaviour to achieve their own choices and goals. While supporting them to make positive health changes that will improve pregnancy & birth outcomes and longer-term family health.

Work with the Public Health Lead Midwife and the maternity team to deliver a smoking cessation standard treatment programme for pregnant women, stop smoking support, and delivery of the smoke-free pregnancy pathway with those women and families.

Provide 1:1 stop smoking support throughout pregnancy and the post-natal period, using the support of interventions such as brief advice, Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).

Work within hospital and community settings to deliver the NCSCT standard treatment programme for pregnant women.

Ensure that all referrals to the service are processed in a timely manner.

Work with the maternity team to provide CO training if necessary to staff working in maternity services.

Promote the general health and wellbeing of people who use the service by signposting them to healthy lifestyle advice and support services.

Deliver tobacco harm reduction assessments, advice and support sessions, including advice on stop smoking quitting aids. This will involve face to face sessions in a variety of settings and venues across the Trust. Working with minimal indirect supervision operating within the assessed level of competence and being accountable for all aspects of own work.

An in-depth understanding of maternity care and experience working within a maternity or similar setting.

Training and knowledge on smoke-free pregnancy pathways and the available support.

Ability to plan and deliver stop smoking advice and support sessions, including advice on quitting aids and NRT, working within recommended protocols and guidelines. This may involve individual, telephonic, on-line and group work sessions in a variety of settings and venues including hospital and community venues.

A sound understanding of developing individually tailored support plans including recommending treatments based on assessed needs.

Be able to provide evidence based general health, lifestyle advice and support to people using the service e.g. healthy eating, physical activity, stress management. This will include individual and group-based interventions, signposting and referring to other health, community, and voluntary services.

Have experience in and be competent to participate in educating pregnant women and birthing people about the benefits of stopping smoking in pregnancy and give support to those women wanting to quit. Promote smoke free homes and support and advice for women, birthing people and families about passive smoking.

Be able to deliver Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring to a high standard and engage in the data collection and collation of CO rates in pregnancy and post-partum.

Maintain accurate up to date and comprehensive records at all times.

Ability to have difficult but motivational conversations with women, birthing people and their partners about the risks of smoking in pregnancy and the postnatal period

The above indicates the main duties of the post, which may be reviewed in the light of experience and developments within the service. Any review will be undertaken in conjunction with the post holder

Play an active role in the development of the smoke-free service targets and work with collaboratively with team members to share best practice and information to achieve these.

Undertake relevant training to maintain the skills and knowledge as necessary through participation in continuous development. The National Centre for Smoking Cessation Training (NCSCT) practitioner training is essential to this role.

Respond effectively to referrals within stated timescales self-referrals from the individuals, and those from colleagues /other workers/GPs.

Ensure that the relevant equipment is provided and maintained on an agreed schedule. Report any failings of equipment or other environmental factors to the Public Health Lead Midwife.

To be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of 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 Tobacco Dependency Co-ordinator for Maternity Services and the Public Health Lead Midwife.

Alert the appropriate line manager to any issues in work (including concerns about individuals or work in the community) and maintain confidentiality.

Undertake risk assessment within the work environment in order to ensure safety to self and others.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

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Qualifications

Experience

Essential: - An understanding of maternity care and experience working within a maternity or other care setting.

Skills

Personal

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