Job overview

The Smokefree Pregnancy Service is focused on promoting smokefree pregnancies across the Birmingham and Solihull ICB/ LMNS to improve the health of women and families who smoke and the outcomes of their pregnancies.

The Tobacco Dependency Advisor (TDA) will work within the community maternity services, in-patient maternity service, providing individualized support to women and will specifically deliver smoking cessation support to women and their families in a flexible and innovative way. Beyond this, the TDA will also engage with the wellbeing of the women they interact with, promoting healthy lifestyles and signposting to other relevant services whilst managing caseloads and clinics offering patient calls with appropriate face to face appointments. 

Main duties of the job

The Advisor will receive referrals from team members for smoking cessation support, will advise and will work proactively with all women and their household members who smoke during pregnancy.

The Advisor will provide a variety of evidence-based stop smoking interventions including face-to-face, behavioural support and pharmacotherapy, group sessions, digital and self-help support, use of e-cigarettes and telephone and texting support.

They will work closely with others as part of the wider pathway to support smoking cessation and smoke-free households including carbon monoxide testing; risk perception interventions; recording, collating, and monitor smoking and quit rates with client progress.

The postholder will be working closely with the team leader to implement a range of services across the ICB/LMNS. As a smoke free champion across the Trust, you will provide information, advice, and support to patients on stopping smoking, minimising harm from tobacco and health-related issues in line with best guidance and protocols.

You will be involved in awareness raising sessions in the Trust, reinforcing the training provided to staff to reduce harm from tobacco.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.