Tobacco Dependence Treatment Manager - Acute
Accepting applications until: 09-Nov-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 09-Nov-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Conybeare House
- Address
- St Thomas Street
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 per annum pro rata inc. H.C.A
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Tobacco Dependence Treatment
- Interview date
- 26/11/2025
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 lead the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team, with responsibility for the Guy's Hospital site. We are looking for a dynamic person with a strong background in directing and delivering a range of tobacco dependence treatment interventions in the acute environment. With a growing team of referral coordinators, tobacco dependence advisors and tobacco dependence specialists you will lead on new developments and delivery of existing inpatient and outpatient clinics across our two hospital sites.
Areas of work include 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. In addition we are about to roll out the COSTED programme in ED and also we contribute to the Vital 5 agenda.
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, COSTED and Vital 5 programmes.
Duties will include:
§ To provide the strategic framework, development, and operational management of the Trust’s stop smoking services
§ Provide day-to-day line management to the Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment.
- Partnership working with SEL ICB and community tobacco dependence treatment colleagues to support their delivery of services to GSTT patients.
- To work with healthcare professionals to ensure that Long Term Plan policies designed for patients who smoke and who are admitted and cared for in a smoke-free environment in our hospitals
- To support, develop and implement other stop smoking initiatives eg.Stop before the Op, Costed
- Promote the stop smoking referral system across all hospital departments.
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 lead the development, management, monitoring and evaluation of Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment services, ensuring that any services provided meet both national and local requirements and are in line with Trust and National guidance.
- To act as the Trust’s expert resource in relation to tobacco dependence support, and to be the first point of contact for incoming queries and information requests in relation to tobacco dependence.
- To undertake training needs assessments within and across all clinical services so that all clinical staff can provide first-line health promotion advice and support to patients on tobacco dependence, and are able to screen all patients in hospital-based services for support and onward referral.
- Linked to above, continue to develop and improve implementation of the Long Term Plan initiative across all inpatient specialties.
- To work closely with partners, including the SEL ICB, to ensure that the reduction of health inequalities is seen as a relevant priority to the Trust as an acute provider of clinical care, and that clinical and management teams are aware of the correlation between smoking, ill-health, and health inequality.
- To support the Tobacco Dependence Treatment Lead in the strategic planning for tobacco dependence with the SEL ICB and internal Trust management and clinical teams to embed tobacco dependence treatment within the culture of health care provision, and to ensure delivery of local and national targets.
- The post-holder will support the Tobacco Dependence Treatment Lead for liaison with relevant finance personnel to accurately quantify the cost implications of any new systems and processes, and for the development of funding approval business cases.
- To work closely with Trust colleagues and service clinical and management teams to ensure that there is wide awareness of how to access tobacco dependence treatment across the Trust and community.
- To provide specialist advice and support to service providers, health care providers and management teams within the organisation.
- To be actively involved in partnerships relevant to tobacco dependence treatment, e.g. London Tobacco Control Network, London Tobacco Dependence Acute Leads, etc
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
- NCSCT qualified practitioner
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate qualification (Masters or post-graduate diploma level) in a relevant field
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least 3 years experience of smoking cessation or Tobacco Control related work.
- Previous experience of leading multi-agency partnerships / projects
- Demonstrates significant contribution to meeting operational and strategic objectives in previous roles.
- Demonstrable prior experience managing people and performance
- Previous experience of developing performance management and monitoring frameworks.
- Previous experience of creating and developing relationships across differing professional groups of staff, across different agencies
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in an acute health care setting of working across professional staff groups
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates significant skills engaging with different groups of staff at all levels and is able to progress work not owned locally
- Demonstrates flexibility and ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
- Is able to deliver complex project plans and work programmes for self and a wider team
- Is able to identify, collate, analyse and interpret statistical and numerical data and information.
- Evidence of supporting change processes
- Is highly motivated and able to work independently and as part of a wider team
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alanna Molloy
- Job title
- Tobacco Dependence Treatment Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07764699867
- Additional information
Interviews will be held 26th November 2025
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