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Team Lead Tobacco Dependence Treatment Service
Band 8a
Main area Nursing and Midwifery Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Office hours) Job ref 277-7224013-AAC
Site Pinewood House Town Dartford Salary £59,490 - £66,239 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 03/06/2025 23:59
Job overview
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic Lead Tobacco Dependence Treatment Specialist, this pivotal Band 8a role offers a unique opportunity to spearhead transformative change in tobacco dependence treatment for our service users and staff.
Anchored within our Acute and Crisis services, you will be the single senior point of contact for tobacco dependence treatment within the Trust.You will ensure robust policy and best practice are embedded within core inpatient services (including mental health acute & crisis, forensics, and prisons) and aligned through collaboration across diverse directorates including our children & young people, learning disabilities, community mental health and community physical health directorates.You will be spearheading the delivery of comprehensive Ottawa model services to achieve 100% coverage for all inpatient smokers and significantly improve support for mental health patients post-discharge, ensuring vital continuity of care and reducing relapse rates. Ultimately, you will drive a cohesive, Trust-wide strategy and approach to tobacco dependence, making a tangible difference to the health of our service users and staff.
Main duties of the job
Strategic Development & Delivery: Leading the strategic development, promotion, and delivery of effective, evidence-based interventions to support Tobacco Dependence Treatment across Oxleas.
Service Management: Delivering a specialist stop smoking service, including managing a highly skilled team of specialist tobacco dependence advisors and overseeing budget management.
Performance & Quality: Driving the achievement of key performance indicators, contributing to reducing smoking prevalence and health inequalities, and managing data to ensure annual quit targets are met.
Policy & Infrastructure: Ensuring tobacco dependence policy and practice are aligned across all service lines.
Leadership & Collaboration: Providing strategic leadership on tobacco dependence for service users and staff, working in partnership with the Public Health team, and leading on the procurement of treatments with pharmacy and finance.
Training & Development: Ensuring team members achieve relevant competencies (e.g., NCSCT), delivering specialist training, and promoting the service at a strategic level.
Engagement & Marketing: Recruiting smokers to the service, marketing the service, and implementing a marketing and communications strategy.
Policy Development: Leading the development of tobacco dependence treatment policies, guidance, and pathways across all Oxleas services.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
* We Listen
* We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Operational Management & Service Delivery:
Delivering a specialist stop smoking service, ensuring it is high quality, accessible, and client-centred.
Managing a highly skilled team of specialist tobacco dependence advisors, including recruitment, supervision, and ensuring PDPs are completed.
Managing the stop smoking service budget and ensuring services are delivered within allocated funds.
Overseeing the recruitment of smokers and marketing the service effectively.
Ensuring the team achieves NCSCT competencies in tobacco dependence treatment for mental health services.
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Person specification
Education and Qualification
* Educated to degree level with appropriate professional registration (e.g., nursing, psychology, allied health professional).
* A postgraduate diploma or MSc in public health/health promotion or an equivalent relevant qualification. Level 3 stop smoking accreditation.
* Level 3 stop smoking accreditation.
Experience
* Substantial experience working within a stop smoking service, ideally including experience within mental health care settings.
* Proven experience managing and supervising staff, managing budgets, and delivering services against targets.
* Demonstrable experience in project/programme management, service development, and managing organisational change.
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
* Strong leadership, influencing, negotiation, and communication skills (oral, written, presentational).
* Proficiency in data management systems (e.g., Quit Manager), data analysis, and performance reporting.
* In-depth knowledge of smoking evidence base, current debates, and methods of developing evidence-based stop smoking services.
* Ability to travel regularly across Oxleas sites and work occasional evenings/weekends.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.
Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process. We also discourage overuse of AI during the application process because this can negatively impact the quality of your application and may hinder your chances of being shortlisted. Thank you.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high volume of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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