Smoke Free Advisor

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Leicestershire Partnership Trust for the position of Smoke Free Advisor within the established Smoke Free Service across the Directorate of Mental Health.

We have 2 x 12 months Fixed Term roles available - 1 full time 37.5 hours and 1 part time 18.75 hours.

The service provides advice and support in the form of information, behavioural support in groups and one to one, and support with identifying appropriate Nicotine Replacement Therapies and Vapes. You will have the opportunity to establish positive therapeutic relationships with smokers in our inpatient wards and leverage those relationships to improve patient's lives. This role would suit anyone who thrives when working with a large degree of autonomy, has great leadership and collaboration skills, and feels strongly about a smoke free agenda personally and socially.

Duties will include designing tailored care plans with patients and implementing those care plans through nicotine replacement and vaping advice and one to one and group behaviour support sessions, all to help those who engage with the service improve their relationship with tobacco and ultimately improve their lives. As well as delivering the service you will provide support for the maintenance of the Trusts Smoke Free Policy., As a Smoke Free Advisor, you will provide tobacco treatment advice and support to individuals and groups of service users, who want to stop smoking, reduce their harm from tobacco or for temporary abstinence when in hospital. You will work with service users to change their behaviour to improve their health, coordinate Trust-wide activities in support of the above: promotion of activities, organisation of activities.

You will liaise with clinical teams to agree which services users will be offered support from the Smoke Free Service and to promote the general health and wellbeing of people who use the service through offering one-to-one and group tobacco addiction advice and support. The role will include providing advice and support to ward staff, providing or reinforcing training provided to inpatient teams to reduce harm from tobacco and the promotion of smoke free settings. Ensure robust discharge planning for the patients ongoing tobacco dependency treatment for patients wishing to quit or who have an ongoing harm reduction programme.

You will be required to have a comprehensive mental health founded knowledge of the health harms of smoking and the benefits that cessation offers and to educate and promote this within the Trust. To plan and manage your time and schedule of meetings, trainings, and support sessions across Directorate

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible., Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed