The postholder will be part of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trusts Tobacco Dependency Service, offering smoking cessation support to patients, and people who accompany them, accessing Walsall Manor Hospital services.
The Trust is committed to encouraging and supporting smokers accessing our services to quit. We recognise that tobacco dependency is a chronic, relapsing clinical condition that prematurely kills at least half of people who smoke.
To deliver this effectively, the successful applicant will need excellent communication, motivational and organisational skills and work as part of a tobacco dependency team. The Smoking Cessation Coordinators will work under agreed pathways and within defined competence. Working under unsupervised guidance, they will be expected to motivate and engage smokers attending the hospital, facilitate referral to follow-up support and ensure effective handover of care to established community smoking cessation services.
Some weekend workin g (to be confirmed) may be required in the future, on a rota basis.
We would be happy to speak to internal staff who would consider a secondment.
PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE A HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS
The post holder will be based within Walsall Manor Hospital, working under the direction of the Lead Smoking Cessation Coordinator.
Main Duties Of The Role Include To
- Provide evidenced-based smoking cessation advice in the hospital setting during consultations
- Demonstrate and maintain knowledge of smoking cessation aids
- Support people to stop smoking by providing information, and brief advice, on the effects of smoking on health, relating this to the patients presenting health condition where applicable.
- Assess the persons smoking status and readiness to stop smoking, and refer them to specialist smoking cessation services
- Be aware of the Trusts policies with reference to fire, accident reporting, infection control and health and safety.