In House Tobacco Dependency Advisor for Maternity Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Public Health role within our Maternity Tobacco Dependency team to support smoking cessation for pregnant people. This FTC is to cover maternity leave.

Maternity at SWFT now have an "in-house" model of stop smoking in pregnancy support, which meets the recommendations of Saving Babies Lives and the NHS Long Term Plan.

We need an in-house Maternity Services Tobacco Dependency Advisor to join our Public Health Team and continue the strong provision of stop smoking in pregnancy support that we offer. This post is based in Warwick hospital and the Warwickshire area and will involve supporting pregnant families to improve their immediate and longer-term health. We work closely with our community advisors to support pregnant people booked at SWFT, GEH and UHCW(if they live in the Rugby area)., As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, all expectant women and birthing people and their partners will be offered support via a maternity smoke-free pregnancy pathway. As part of this pathway all women and birthing people who smoke will be offered NHS funded tobacco cessation treatment and follow up support.

https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/online-version/chapter-2-more-nhs-action-on-prevention-and-health-inequalities/smoking/

The post holder will work with the Public Health Lead Midwife and the maternity team to achieve element 1 of the saving babies lives care bundle and reduce smoking in pregnancy by providing individualised stop smoking support to women and families in a flexible and innovative way.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/saving-babies-lives-care-bundle-version-two-v5.pdf

This post will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to stop smoking. It focuses on engaging with people in all maternity settings and offering them practical support to change their behaviour to achieve their own choices and goals. While supporting them to make positive health changes that will improve pregnancy & birth outcomes and longer-term family health.

We are looking to recruit a motivated individual who fits our person specification. The post holder will be required to have great communication skills, be passionate about tackling the inequalities in health and work well within a small team. We are looking for an individual with good organisational skills who can engage with people well.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2