Overview
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. All women and birthing people who smoke will be offered NHS funded tobacco cessation treatment and follow up support.
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.
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 and birth outcomes and longer-term family health.
To provide support and guidance and co-ordinate the Tobacco Dependency Advisor team with guidance from the Public Health Lead. Liaising with multi-professional colleagues to deliver specialist clinical practice to the client group and to deliver education, research, audit and evidence-based practice within the speciality.
This post will involve a clinical caseload and some leadership responsibilities.
Additional information
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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sally Talbot
Job title: Public Health Lead Midwife
Email address: sally.talbot@swft.nhs.uk
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