Tobacco and Alcohol Adviser

This is a fantastic opportunity to become a key member of the Tobacco and Alcohol Care Team as an adviser, where you'll play a vital role in delivering assessments and providing targeted, impactful advice to patients across LTHTR. In this position, you'll collaborate closely with a dedicated team of advisers and specialist nurses, ensuring that patients who smoke receive the highest standard of care.
We are looking for someone with the passion and drive to work with a complex and often vulnerable patient group, striving to achieve the best possible outcomes. Your role will be essential in enhancing the quality of care, while also contributing to the broader mission of tackling preventable illnesses, reducing health inequalities, and easing the demand on healthcare services.
You will be required to submit evidence of your qualifications for this position. If your qualifications were obtained overseas, please ensure that you acquire a Statement of Comparability from UK ENIC to facilitate a clear understanding of how your qualifications align with UK standards. For further information and to apply, please follow https://www.enic.org.uk/Qualifications/SOC/Default.aspx., You will be responsible for managing a dedicated caseload, taking charge of coordinating and planning care for a specific group of patients to ensure their needs are thoroughly met. Your role involves providing specialised advice on specific conditions and treatment pathways, enabling the delivery of tailored care that suits each patient's unique situation. A key focus will be on continuously improving patient care and contributing to the development of high-quality healthcare services.
In this role, you will assess patients holistically, planning, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based care plans that address all aspects of their well-being. Additionally, you will offer valuable advice and support to patients, their families, carers, and the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring everyone involved is informed and empowered.
You will also play a crucial role in workforce development by delivering education, training, and expert advice, thereby helping to build a skilled and knowledgeable team. Your commitment to providing excellent care with compassion will ensure that every patient feels understood and valued. Moreover, you will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to ensure that patient management is cohesive, coordinated, and effective.

Working for our organisation
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of., + Promote the overall health and wellbeing of service users by offering advice and support for healthier lifestyles.
+ Conduct assessments and develop personalised care plans for individuals seeking to reduce harm from tobacco, or for those needing temporary abstinence during their hospital stay.
+ Actively support a culture shift towards a smoke-free environment, leading by example and promoting this vital change.
+ Provide advice and support to ward staff, reinforcing training given to inpatient teams on reducing harm from tobacco and promoting a smoke-free site.
+ Ensure robust discharge planning for patients wishing to continue treatment after discharge, linking them with Smokefree Lancashire or a community pharmacy option.
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we're looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We'll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post. Our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available Here
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