Senior Tobacco Dependency Advisor

Job overview

We are recruiting 2 part time  Senior Tobacco Dependency Advisors (TDAs) to join an exciting new team that’s part of a unique system wide collaborative approach and delivery to support Smokefree Pregnancies, hosted by QEH.

The post will be based at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH).  Travelling to Community hubs for NNUH will be required for the role.

The posts are both offered at 30 hours per week, however, there is a degree of flexibility available.

Interviews will take place via Teams.

Please note that this role has a proposed start date of 1st April 2025

Main duties of the job

The Senior Tobacco Dependency Advisor role will contribute to tackling health inequalities through promoting and supporting Smokefree Pregnancies at the three Acute Hospitals across Norfolk and Waveney. It will focus on engaging pregnant women and their families to adopt healthy lifestyles through providing tobacco dependence treatment in line with Saving Babies Lives and NICE Guidelines.

We are seeking highly motivated individuals to join a new Maternity Stop Smoking Service which has been developed as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining communication with pregnant women who smoke, in which strong interpersonal skills are essential to developing Treatment Care plans and supporting throughout the pregnancy.

A commitment to working collaboratively with community stakeholders, service users and carers, to help reduce health inequalities across Norfolk and Waveney is essential.

You will be delivering evidence-based interventions that focus on behaviour change, and licenced treatment aids of which training can be offered to enable delivery.

Your role will be to support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate the core values of the NHS, reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes for all.

There will be occasional weekend and evening work required for the role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details about this vacancy, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Whilst hosted by QEH within Clinical Support Services, the successful Senior TDAs will be embedded within the Maternity Teams at NNUH, with Clinical Lead Midwives assigned to a Senior TDA to provide clinical supervision and onsite maternity teams providing additional support.