Job summary
Band 5 Full Time (37.5 hours per week) | Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) Base | Cross-Bay Working

Are you passionate about tackling health inequalities and helping people live healthier lives?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Treating Tobacco Dependency Lead (Band 5) to lead and develop UHMBT's Stop Smoking Service.

Based at Royal Lancaster Infirmary with cross-bay working, you'll lead a team of practitioners, develop services, support clinical teams and help patients across Morecambe Bay access life-changing tobacco dependency treatment.

If you have strong leadership skills, experience supporting behaviour change, and a drive to improve health outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

Help us create a smoke-free future for our patients and communities. Apply today.

Main duties of the job
Lead the Trust's Treating Tobacco Dependency Service, providing operational leadership and support to Stop Smoking Practitioners across UHMBT. Deliver evidence-based smoking cessation interventions, monitor service performance, develop pathways with internal and external partners, support achievement of national and local targets, and drive continuous service improvement to improve patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

About us
We operate from three main hospitals-Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, daycase and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Our Community Service for adults are provided in people's homes ,community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent , improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care , advice and support.

Job responsibilities
The post holder will provide day-to-day leadership of the Treating Tobacco Dependency Service across UHMBT, supporting delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan agenda and Trust Smoke Free Policy. Responsibilities include clinical support, staff supervision, performance monitoring, data reporting, service development, education and training, stakeholder engagement and delivery of contractual KPIs. The role will support patients, staff and partners to improve smoking cessation outcomes across the Trust.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent relevant experience
• NCSCT Level 2 Smoking Cessation Training or willingness to undertake within 3 months of appointment

Desirable

• Leadership/management training or qualification
• Health promotion or Quality Improvement qualification/training/experience

Other

• Ability to travel independently across Trust sites
• Flexible and adaptable approach to meet changing service needs

Experience

• Experience working within a healthcare, caring or community setting
• Experience providing healthcare advice, behavioural change support or health promotion interventions
• Experience developing effective multidisciplinary working relationships
• Experience collecting, analysing and reporting performance data
• Experience contributing to service improvement or change programmes
• Experience supervising or managing staff

Desirable

• Experience within a Treating Tobacco Dependency or Stop Smoking service

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of smoking cessation interventions and behavioural change approaches
• Ability to lead, supervise and support staff
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Strong organisational, planning and prioritisation skills
• Ability to analyse performance information and support service improvement

Desirable

• Knowledge of NHS Treating Tobacco Dependency requirements and KPI reporting

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).