Tobacco Dependence Treatment Specialist
Accepting applications until: 16-Nov-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 16-Nov-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Address
- Westminster Bridge Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 p.a. pro rata incl. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Tobacco Dependence Treatment
- Interview date
- 03/12/2025
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be a part of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team. We are looking for an experienced Tobacco Dependence Specialist who will enjoy working as part of a small team delivering tobacco dependence treatment to patients across our two hospital sites. The post holder will be involved in continuing the development and delivery of our services to meet the Long Term Plan for tobacco, including ward based interventions, outpatient clinics and MDT training. This will help to achieve the Trust commitment to drive a culture change towards prevention and to bring the promotion of optimised physical health and wellbeing into the mainstream.
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The post holder will be expected to support the delivery of the tobacco dependence treatment sections of the Trust initiatives aimed at promoting and improving the health of patients including the LTP project and Vital 5 programmes.
Duties and responsibilities will include:
- To ensure that staff in the target clinical areas are trained in very brief advice (VBA) either through online package or face to face training.
- To monitor ward staff compliance with the core care, including screening on admission and initial withdrawal management, and further support staff with any issues resulting in non-compliance of this target
- Provide appropriate clinical interventions to patients to support time-limited withdrawal management and long-term smoking cessation
- To be responsible for delivery of the targets set.
- To set up, manage and deliver tobacco dependence outpatient clinics
- To be engaged and proactive with the further development and roll out of the tobacco dependence treatment programmes developed by the Trust throughout the hospital.
Working for our organisation
We are a small friendly team which has become well-established with a wealth of experience in tobacco dependence, led by the Trust's Values:
Caring – we put patients first
We provide patient and person-centred care. We care about others’ needs and wellbeing. We listen. We are compassionate to ourselves and others. We reflect on our actions. We are respectful and welcoming.
Ambitious – we innovate and strive for excellence
We innovate and strive for excellence. We act with integrity. We act on staff and patient feedback. We seek ways to improve the care and experience of others. We are efficient. We are committed to growth. We find new ways to deliver excellence.
Inclusive – we respect each other and work collaboratively
We respect each other and work collaboratively. We act on diverse views. We put ourselves in ‘others’ shoes’. We are building an anti-racism organisation. We seek opportunities to collaborate. We show sensitivity towards diversity of culture.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To assess inpatients tobacco dependence, devise a treatment plan and ensure tobacco dependence care is given throughout the inpatient stay and post-discharge
- To uphold and actively support the Trust’s smoke-free status
- Ensure targets are met
- To deliver a range of effective tobacco dependence services using ward-based and out patient clinic-based support and provide telephone support for those smokers who are unable to attend face to face appointments.
- To manage a caseload of clients independently and prioritise service user needs
- Develop expertise in effective treatment programmes for people with a range of smoking related health conditions
- Plan and deliver a comprehensive and bespoke training programme to promote a systematic, proactive approach to tobacco dependence across the Trust.
- To utilise a range of different approaches to raise awareness of tobacco dependence services and to use all possible opportunities to generate referrals for patients
- To promote and facilitate the development of seamless care pathways and referral systems between professionals in acute settings, midwifery, community health services and primary care.
- To support the integration of the tobacco dependence service into broader health development initiatives
- To contribute to the ongoing development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of the tobacco dependence treatment service
Please see attached job description for full duties and responsibilities
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Skills / Knowledge / Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage own workload, prioritise work, delegate where appropriate and work well against a background of change and uncertainty
- Effective interpersonal, motivational and influencing skills
- Able to manage patients who may present with challenging behaviours
- Adaptable to different working situations and interacting with people of all backgrounds
- Self-motivated, pro-active and innovative
Desirable criteria
- Skills in using acute systems eg) EPIC, PIMS
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Two years’ experience of working within Tobacco Dependence Treatment or other patient facing clinical role, in an acute setting and delivering 1-1 interventions.
- Experience of working on a target driven programme eg LTP
- Experience of caseload management
- Experience of developing and delivering training for a range of health professionals and others
- Experience of setting up Tobacco Dependence Treatment Clinics
- Experience of audit and evaluation
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams in an acute setting
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level
- Stop Smoking Practitioner Training (accredited by the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training) Level2 training
Desirable criteria
- Independent Prescriber
- Post graduate qualification in health related area
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gareth Absalom
- Job title
- Tobacco Dependence Treatment Manager - Acute
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920411038
- Additional information
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