Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service Advisor (QUIT Team)

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Gateshead Health NHS Trust for a highly motivated and compassionate individual to join the Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service (QUIT Team). The QUIT Team plays a vital role in delivering the NHS Long Term Plan commitments to reduce health inequalities and prevent avoidable illness and death caused by tobacco use. Tobacco dependency is recognised as a chronic, relapsing medical condition rather than a lifestyle choice, and requires evidence-based treatment and ongoing support. A key focus of this role is supporting pregnant people who smoke, recognising the unique clinical, social, and emotional factors that influence smoking during pregnancy. The post holder will provide non-judgmental, person-centered support to pregnant individuals and their families, helping them to achieve a smoke-free pregnancy and improve outcomes for both parent and baby. The post holder will work across a range of settings including acute inpatient wards, maternity services, outpatient clinics, and community environments, ensuring all individuals who smoke are identified early and offered timely, effective support.,

• Promote the Trust Smoke Free Policy and act as a smoke-free champion, supporting patients, visitors and staff to maintain smoke-free environments.
• Provide specialist, evidence-based tobacco dependency support, with a particular emphasis on pregnant people across antenatal and postnatal pathways.
• Deliver personalised quit plans using behavioural support (including motivational interviewing) and pharmacotherapy (e.g. Nicotine Replacement Therapy), tailored to individual need.
• Proactively identify and engage patients who smoke at the earliest opportunity, ensuring all pregnant people are offered support in line with national guidance.
• Offer daily inpatient support, including ward visits, to initiate and maintain quit attempts during hospital admission.
• Ensure robust discharge planning and continuity of care, providing ongoing support for up to 12 weeks or longer as required, including throughout pregnancy and referral to appropriate services.
• Work in partnership with midwives, obstetric teams, health visitors and the wider multidisciplinary team to embed tobacco dependency treatment into routine care.
• Provide advice and support to ward and maternity staff to enable delivery of smoke-free care in line with the NHS NENC ICB smoking cessation model.
  
  Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients. We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region. Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement. We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks. The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.