Band 7 Highly Specialist Practitioner - Smoking Cessation Lead

We are looking for someone to come and lead our Smoking cessation Service, operating at both Harefield and Royal Brompton Hospitals to support our patients from their inpatient admission through to beyond discharge. You will need to be able to work from both venues with your time split equally between the two and a significant amount of work is undertaken virtually.
You will work clinically alongside your team as well as undertaking line management of the team and developing the service with support from the clinical lead.

Working for our organisation
In conjunction with other members of the smoking cessation multi-professional team you will be responsible for providing expert clinical practice to our wide cohort of patients including offering education in both an inpatient and outpatient setting alongside leading our smoking cessation services. Our services includes face to face and virtual interactions.
You will be required to work closely with your MDT colleagues and contribute to the development of a high-quality, evidence-based service. You will have an opportunity to help shape and promote the service, providing you with an opportunity to engage in service development and evaluation.
CPD and professional development is supported by the trust., To promote a healthy lifestyle through advice and support patients and relatives/carers in one to one and group sessions, via telephone, via video calls and face to face. Work will predominantly be within the smoking cessation arena in line with the NHS Long-Term Plan, with time spent in the CVP&R service in line with professional background.
To consolidate and develop knowledge and skills through participation in continuous professional development (CPD). The post holder is required to deliver a high standard of care, working collaboratively with the highly specialist practitioner in the development of this new service.
This role will provide clinical practice to support and facilitate high quality individualized care to patients/relatives/carers without direct supervision, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team. Work to be undertaken will be based around smoking cessation activities with time also spent educating patients pre and post cardiac procedures, following up cardiac patients post discharge and involvement in our exercise service in line with your professional background.
To independently perform advanced assessments of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological needs and deliver an individualised and specialised programme of care. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner with freedom to act on own interpretation of data without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training, clinical reasoning sessions and peer review. Access to advice and support is available from senior team members if required. Clinical work is not routinely evaluated.
To consolidate and develop knowledge and skills through participation in continuous professional development (CPD). To use evidence based principles/current best practice to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To undertake supervision, education and assessment of competence of team members and students as required. This would involve working with Universities to ensure standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by degree level qualification.
To actively participate in service expansion plans which include extending appointments offered into the early evening and weekends on a rota system, as well as travelling to community venues. Whilst you will be based primarily at one of our hospital sites, due to the cross-site nature of this service, you will need to be willing to work on the other site in the case of staff absences (inter-hospital transport available).
Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual's personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Do you have a passion for smoking cessation and preventative healthcare? We have an exciting opportunity for someone to come and lead our smoking cessation service, as part of the wider cardiovascular prevention & rehabilitation team! Our service covers both inpatients and outpatients.
You will lead the service and with support of our multi-disciplinary smoking team ensure our patients receive a high standard of care. As patient focused registered healthcare/public health professionals, you will ideally have experience and expertise in health education, cardiovascular care and smoking cessation, although training will be given and appropriate CPD will be supported. You will also have a proven record of leadership and supporting career development of your team.
Your background may be in a wide range of NHS or health related professions (including but not confined to nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, psychology, pharmacy).

NHS AfC: Band 7
Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.