Tobacco Dependence Advisor-Maternity

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and forward thinking team and make a real difference, by supporting pregnant women and their families to improve their own health and the health of their unborn babies. Working alongside the specialist smoking cessation midwifery team, you will provide face to face and remote support to help women, their significant others and staff to quit smoking., Promote the general health and wellbeing of people who use the service through offering healthy lifestyle advice and support.

Work with people to change their behaviour and to improve their health, including patients and staff.

Act as a smoke free champion, promoting the smoke free message through their day to day work.

Provide advice and support to maternity staff, including reinforcing the training provided to inpatient teams by the Smoking cessation midwifery team.

Ensure robust support planning for inpatients and their significant others, referring appropriately to specialist midwives and other services for increased intervention and ongoing support.

The Directorate of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology is based at the Jessop Wing which is linked to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and is a maternity unit with Baby Friendly accreditation. The maternity unit has approximately 6500 births per year and is a Regional Tertiary Maternity Service with a Level 3 Neonatal Unit of 44 cots. A Tertiary Gynae-Oncology service and Gynaecology Service, which includes an Assisted Conception Unit, complete the services within the Directorate.

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

We are working in partnership with our Local Maternity System across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan, tobacco control agenda and promote equitable care to all women within our services.

We can offer you:-

A supportive team environment in which to provide high standards of quality care.

Excellent opportunities including role specific public health smoking cessation training and mandatory training.