Band 7 Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist - (TACT)

This is an exciting opportunity to join University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (Band 7) and take a leading role in delivering and developing our Tobacco Addiction Cure Team (TACT) service. This is a 12-month fixed term post. Candidates must demonstrate an interest in change behaviour and post registration training in smoking cessation.

This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-impact, trust-wide service supporting patients and staff to quit smoking. Working within our dynamic Respiratory Support Team, you will provide expert clinical leadership, delivering evidence-based tobacco dependency treatment across inpatient and outpatient settings.

You will manage and develop the TACT service, delivering nurse-led clinics, supporting complex quit attempts, and driving forward service innovation and research. As a visible clinical leader, you will work both autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality, patient-centred care.

This role offers the opportunity to influence population health, reduce health inequalities, and make a measurable difference to patient outcomes across the Trust.

18.75 Contracted hours (per week), As the CNS you will play a pivotal role in the management and care co-ordination of those eligible to receive smoking cessation support. You will be the key worker delivering smoking cessation services across UHB and supporting advisors within the team. In partnership with the Lead consultant you will deliver staff clinics and work across our inpatient outpatient services. You will work with partners within the smoking cessation service across pathways of care to ensure patients discharged from our inpatient services can continue with their supported quit attempt.

You will be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and will need to be able to travel across the footprint of the service as needed. Some of your work will be supported by technology virtually and you should be experienced in using IT and technology. Experience with research, audit compiling reports and handling data will be useful within this role.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.