Tobacco Dependency Treatment Practitioner

Are you interested in becoming a Tobacco Dependency Treatment Practitioner?

The post holder will work with the lead midwife for Tobacco Dependence and other team members in providing individualised stop smoking support to women/birthing persons and families in a flexible an innovative way. This post will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through the promotion, treatment and behavioural support to people stopping smoking.

It focuses on engaging with people enabling complex behavioural change by offering them treatment in the form of nicotine replacement therapy and practical support to change their behaviour to achieve their own choices and goals., Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.