Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
On-going support from our experienced specialist midwifery team.
A diverse population and client group.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Educated to GCSE (or equivalent) grade C/4 or above in English and Maths or equivalent experience/ qualifications.
2. NVQ level 3 in Health care (or equivalent).
3. Smoking Cessation Training Level 2 or willing to undertake within 3 months of starting in post.
Desirable criteria
4. Specific training in health promotion interventions.
Experience
Essential criteria
5. Experience of working in the NHS in the community or hospital setting.
6. Experience of providing healthcare, healthcare advice or health promotion advice to patients or members of the public.
Desirable criteria
7. Experience of providing help, support and/or counselling on a one to one or group basis.
Skills
Essential criteria
8. Computer literate, experience of using Microsoft Office software.
9. Knowledge of evidence based smoking cessation initiatives.
10. Ability to work and communicate in group settings.
11. Good knowledge and understanding of evidence based practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
12. Ability to build and maintain good working relationship with professional/ individuals from different professional backgrounds
13. Excellent communication (written and verbal) and listening skills.
14. Good organisational skills
15. Understand and maintain confidentiality issues
Desirable criteria
16. Experience of using clinical systems
17. Understanding of audit and evaluation
18. Knowledge of principles of health promotion and issues of health inequality
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
19. Well-developed interpersonal skills.
20. Enthusiasm and ability to motivate self and others
21. Commitment to the promotion of equality of opportunity.
22. Fully supportive of Trust’s smoke free policy acting as a smoke free champion.
23. Ability to work flexible hours when team / service requires including evenings and weekends.
24. UK driving licence
Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here.
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Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
25. Band 3 Tobacco Dependence Advisor Maternity (PDF, 296.4KB)
26. Band 3 Tobacco Dependence Advisor Person Specification (PDF, 272.6KB)
27. Candidate Application Best Practice Guide - please read before completing your application (PDF, 236.3KB)
28. Information for Candidates (PDF, 496.3KB)
29. Getting to Work at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (PDF, 305.0KB)
30. Applicants - How We Use Your Information (PDF, 87.4KB)
31. Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 124.0KB)
32. Staff Benefits (PDF, 2.7MB)
33. A Guide to Using Artificial Intelligence and With Your Personal Statement (PDF, 163.6KB)
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Further details / informal visits contact
NameBeau WarrenJob titleLead Midwife for Public HealthEmail addressbeau.warren@nhs.netTelephone number07584775301