Job overview

The Community Tobacco Dependency advisor – service lead is a new role to the trust. It will require skills in navigating services and establishing new relationships within BSMHFT clinical staff to ensure a smooth service user journey through the trust’s community smokefree pathway.

This will require working with the Project Lead - Tobacco Dependency in the best approach for the service and its users. This role will require a creative and flexible attitude to work with service users who are in mental health community settings.

The Tobacco Dependency Advisors will assist in providing specialist advice and support to mental health service users around tobacco addiction and provide evidence-based approaches in line with national guidance and good practice to help them go smoke free.

The post holder with work across our community mental health settings and support the service users through their smoke free journey.

They will help train trust staff to provide stop smoking interventions establishing the systems and processes to facilitate this and have accurate documentation to report interventions and quit attempts.

Main duties of the job

The advisor will work with the team and mental health staff to provide an evidence-based stop smoking service by delivering

o   1:1 and group smoking cessation interventions

o   Work in a recognised processes to allow staff and service users to access evidence-based stop smoking interventions and record results

o   Working with partners (with our inpatient Tobacco dependency service, community tobacco dependency service and pharmacists) to ensure continuity of stop smoking support.

o   Provide support and training to mental health staff to provide smoking cessation intervention

o   Liaison with the project lead to support services users who have recently discharged to quit.

o   Ensuring that service users have access to psychological and provision of pharmacological support to help them to cope with tobacco dependence

     Work in partnership with the regional team(BCC) to deliver evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment in line with the Department of Health, NHS England, and NICE guidance, and NCSCT best practice guidance

Working for our organisation

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.  Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year.  We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community.  If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.