Community Smoke Free Midwife

This is a unique opportunity to combine working as a community midwife with a specialism in smoking cessation
You will be working with an experienced specialist smoke free pregnancy midwife who will help you to advance your knowledge and improve your skills while preparing you for your next career move.
We currently have an opportunity for an experienced band 6 midwife to join the smoke free team on a 12 month secondment.
Based in Bexley Community you will work with tobacco dependent women and provide smoking cessation advice whilst caseloading these women.
You will be part of the Smoke Free Pregnancy team that works to enable good care for mothers/birthing people who are tobacco dependent to ensure a good outcome for the birthing person and baby.
You will also work within the team to share learning, teach and support the embedding of new practices., Your duties will include normal community midwifery with the addition of the following:
You will Support, assist and advise women/birthing people who continue to smoke during pregnancy to develop individual care plans, and making referrals to additional specialist support.
You will caseload these clients in your smoke free pregnancy clinics in order to provide tobacco treatment solutions to women/birthing people and their partners. This will include implementing the risk perception intervention if required.
You will act as an advocate for women/birthing people to ensure they get the support they need to successfully quit smoking.

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, The post holder is responsible for carrying out their clinical hours where they will be fully competent in their own abilities to provide good evidence-based care in the chosen area, they will also continue their professional development whilst working 2 days per rota in the specialist role.
Whilst in the speciality role, they will become part of the team, participating and learning as they go and will become involved with training of staff.
Be supported to learn to act as a clinical specialist providing information on stopping smoking to clients and families.[INS: :INS]
Act as the professional role model ensuring all care is delivered to the highest level and in accordance with Trust policies, procedures and National Maternity Drivers.
To utilise clinical audit, research, supervision of practice and teaching, in order to monitor and improve standards of care by efficient and effective use of resources.
Assist in developing local guidelines as required in line with national recommendations and current evidence.
The practitioner should have a specific interest and some expertise in the smoking cessation field and provide clinically focused support in this area to ensure that the best possible level of care is provided to women and their babies. S/he is responsible for ensuring that maternity staff, (obstetricians, midwives, maternity support workers, care assistants and student midwives) are aware of their responsibilities within this particular area of work.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.