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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading the project to deliver and maintain a fully smoke free site at UHS.
• Working alongside clinical teams providing smoking cessation support to patients and staff, ensuring interventions are supportive, accessible and effective.
• Identifying challenges and barriers to implementation and working collaboratively with staff to develop practical solutions.
• Developing strong partnerships with services across UHS, Hampshire County Council and wider healthcare organisations.
• Representing the programme at Integrated Care Board (ICB) meetings and tobacco dependency networks, sharing learning, innovation and best practice across the system.
• Delivering training and education programmes for staff, including Very Brief Advice (VBA), smoking status recording and referral pathways for onward treatment and support.
• Increasing referrals from acute services into community-based smoking cessation services across Hampshire.
• Planning and delivering engagement activities, awareness campaigns and promotional events, including initiatives such as "Bin the Butt" days and Stoptober campaigns.
• Working alongside health inequalities, prevention and population health programmes to reduce smoking-related inequalities and improve outcomes for underserved communities.
• Monitoring programme performance, analysing data and producing reports to demonstrate impact and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Developing business cases and funding proposals to secure investment and support the sustainability and growth of tobacco dependency services.
• Acting as a champion for tobacco dependency treatment and smoke free environments across the organisation and wider system.

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about prevention, public health and reducing health inequalities. You will be an effective communicator who can build relationships, influence stakeholders and motivate others to embrace change.

You Will Be Able To Demonstrate

• Willingness to be on site, actively talking to staff, patients and visitors about smoke free
• Experience of leading projects, programmes or service improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of smoking cessation, tobacco dependency treatment, public health or health promotion programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and partnership working skills.
• Experience of developing and delivering training or educational programmes.
• Excellent communication, presentation and influencing abilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience of using data to drive improvement.
• Experience of developing business cases, funding bids or investment proposals.
• The ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities across different organisations.

Person specification

Trust Values

• Patients First
• Always Improving
• Working Together

Qualifications, Knowledge And Experience

Essential criteria

• First Degree or equivalent experience/diplomas
• Detailed knowledge and application of a recognised service improvement technique or relevant experience to Masters level or equivalent
• Evidence of further training/study/leadership courses
• Proven track record in project management experience
• Project or change management training
• Facilitation of multi-professional groups
• Presenting and communicating to care groups and divisions
• Experience at a senior level in industry or healthcare sector
• Literate, with experience of report writing
• Evidence of leading and implementing change, influencing behaviour, collaborative working with others
• Evidence of significant structured project management skills and experience
• Ability to analyse complex problems in detail, interpret complex information, and develop practical and workable solutions to address them
• Demonstrate the ability to analyse and interpret technical, sensitive or contentious information and present this to a variety of audiences
• Ability to lead project teams to effect change in rapidly changing environments, to achieve agreed goals

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in healthcare setting
• Previous experience in quality / service improvement environment
• Coaching experience
• Teaching experience
• Experience of action learning sets
• Action learning set facilitator
• QSIR college associate
• Coaching qualification
• Working knowledge of more than one methodology