A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) are increasing the support we offer to pregnant people and their families who book with maternity care or are admitted to or attend our hospitals to help them to stop smoking or to reduce harm from tobacco and be smoke free during an inpatient admission (temporary abstinence). The primary purpose of this post is to support pregnant people and their families who wish to quit, provide more support to staff and help us to have smoke free hospitals and grounds.
OUH recognises smoking as an addiction (tobacco dependency) and that it is a chronic, relapsing clinical condition that prematurely kills at least half of people who smoke. Smoking is seen as a medical condition that can be treated, rather than as a lifestyle choice.
As a Tobacco Dependency Adviser, you will provide brief and extended stop smoking behavioural support and interventions to pregnant people and their families who are referred to the maternity smoke-free service at OUH. You will be required to work across professional boundaries with multidisciplinary healthcare professionals to achieve common goals.
You will also contribute to smoke free promotion campaigns, delivery of tobacco related staff training sessions and the smooth running and on-going development of the service. Including work toward service quality improvement projects and personal development objectives.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please viewOUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
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• Act as an ambassador for, and work as a member of the maternity Healthy Lifestyle team.
• Act as a smoke free champion promoting the Trust’s smoke free policy and smoke free message through their day-to-day work.
• Be responsible for the delivery of tobacco harm reduction / stop smoking support to pregnant people and their families who are booked with maternity care.
• Work with people to change their behaviour to improve their health to include patients and staff. Provide tobacco harm reduction and smoking cessation support as needed to pregnant women and their families.
• Provide advice and support to clinical staff, including assisting in providing training and teaching to reduce harm from tobacco and to support the promotion and delivery of smoke free settings.
• Ensure robust discharge planning for the patient’s ongoing tobacco dependency treatment for patients wishing to quit or who have an ongoing harm reduction programme.
• Work independently with patients, within the framework of agreed Maternity Healthy Lifestyle protocols, recognising when there is a need to defer to a colleague for advice and support.
• Maintain and further develop a strong relationship between the community based local stop smoking service and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Sep 2024
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