Job Description
Are you someone who is passionate about delivering high quality safe and excellent care to patients within a mental health setting?
An exciting opportunity has arisen across Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust for a Tobacco Dependency Advisor Lead.
We are interested in recruiting a health care professional who is wishing to develop the range and breadth of their knowledge and skills with a view to develop further or someone who has experience in working in other settings such as teaching, an allied health care professional etc who is looking forward to gain skills in inpatient mental health.
The role will require you to work with patients who have complex health issues, from a variety of social and cultural background to support behavior change and health improvement for smoking cessation. It also involves providing support for the development, implementation, and sustainability of the Trust’s Smoke Free Policy. The post holders will be expected to establish therapeutic relationships with smokers whilst in our inpatient wards.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (OHFT) provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
As a leading teaching, training and research trust, we have close links to Oxford and Oxford Brookes, Buckinghamshire, Reading and Bath Universities. We are part of the Oxford Academic Health Science Centre, working closely with our university colleagues to translate their findings into clinical care as quickly as possible, enabling people using our services to benefit from the latest advances in healthcare.
In everything we do, we strive to be caring, safe and excellent. We expect our staff to share and demonstrate these values as we work to constantly improve the quality of care we provide. This ensures that we have the right workforce to deliver effective team-working and excellent patient care and experience.
Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure Barring Service and other relevant employment checks.
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Staff accommodation
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
Support the assessment, development and implement of treatment plans for patients identified as smokers throughout the treatment period whilst providing behavioral and motivational support.
Offer therapeutic and supportive interventions to support a quit attempt whilst maintaining patient confidentiality.
Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with smokers whilst in hospital and work with patients on a one to one or group basis where appropriate.
Advise patients on the use of stop smoking pharmacotherapy, including NRT and E-cigarettes.
Strengthen and embed the Cure inpatient Model within inpatient wards, ensure that service users have access to psychological and pharmacological support to help them to cope with tobacco dependence.
Act as a subject matter expert, in-patient staff and community services of the most appropriate support they can provide to their service users; based on knowledge of each local community stop smoking service provision and public health commissioning intentions.
Please note:
- New starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.