Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
Tobacco Dependency Advisor
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Tobacco Dependency Advisor
As part of the nationwide Treating Tobacco Dependency (TTD) Programme, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join CPFT as a Tobacco Dependency Advisor. You will work alongside the Tobacco Dependency Lead and Smoke Free Lead within our Adult and Older Peoples Mental Health Directorate.
About the Role
Your focus will be to support service users to successfully stop smoking, reduce smoking, or abstain from smoking while admitted to one of our inpatient units and to promote our smoke-free policy across our inpatient services.
The NHS Long Term Plan is committed to supporting people to live healthier for longer and preventing avoidable illness by stopping smoking. Prioritizing support for people suffering with mental illness is intended to address the health inequalities and premature deaths experienced by this population.
Responsibilities
- Work across our inpatient services located in Cambridge and Peterborough.
- Core business hours for the role will be Monday to Friday between the hours of 9am to 5pm.
- Establish strong working relationships with a variety of teams, supporting the Tobacco Dependency Lead to implement work across clinical areas.
- Ensure patients are screened for their smoking status and offered a referral to the Tobacco Dependency Service.
- Conduct a face-to-face initial assessment to support and agree a personalized plan to support individuals to stop smoking, reduce smoking, or temporarily abstain from smoking while admitted to one of our inpatient units.
- Provide ongoing support for the duration of a patient's admission.
- Ensure they have access to appropriate pharmacotherapy.
- Update activity on the Trust's Electronic Patient Notes System.
- Provide support for the monthly reporting requirements.
- Actively signpost in preparation for patients being discharged to available smoking cessation resources.
- Provide staff updates and support staff in providing stop smoking support.
- Work collaboratively with inpatient ward staff to ensure smoking and tobacco-related health improvement information is available.
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About the Organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care, and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.
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To achieve our goals, we recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Application Process
All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
Contact Information
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Ben Kingsbury
- Job title: Tobacco Dependency Lead
- Email address: ben.kingsbury@cpft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07572398485
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