These exciting new roles will contribute to the delivery of the Oxleas Stop Smoking Service objectives and the wider objectives of the Trust by providing high-quality, expert stop smoking interventions to inpatients, outpatients, visitors, and staff.

The Tobacco Dependence Treatment (TDT)  Advisor will operationally deliver the smoking element of the NHS LTP by delivering a stop smoking by establishing a stop smoking service for mental health inpatient units based upon the Ottawa and CURE Models of Smoking Cessation and to support Oxleas in improving care for discharged mental health patients, ensuring continuity of care and enhancing quit outcomes. .

We are looking for enthusiastic and dynamic individual (s) who can produce results in a challenging environment. As the TDT  Advisor it will be your responsibility to deliver and  the TDT service with the support of the TDT Lead.

This role requires an ability to manage time and resources effectively to ensure that you hit targets and provide highly effective support for smokers who are admitted to our hospitals.

Candidates with experience of providing stop smoking interventions and delivering training would be ideally suited to this role, as would individuals with clinical experience in the hospital setting.

 

To contribute to the delivery of the Oxleas Tobacco Dependence Treatment Service objectives and the wider objectives of the Trust by providing high-quality, expert stop smoking interventions to inpatients and staff whilst driving a culture change towards prevention of ill-health and promoting physical health and wellbeing.

 

The Tobacco Dependency  Advisor will operationally deliver the smoking element of the NHS LTP by providing a stop smoking service for inpatients admitted to Greenparks House (Bromley), Oxleas House (Greenwich) or Woodlands and Barefoot Lodge (Bexley) based upon the Ottawa and CURE Models of Smoking Cessation.

 

This role will provide front-facing, visible and accessible support by offering  face-to-face onsite clinics to service users in each of the mental health inpatient wards in the Acute and Crisis Directorate.

 

 

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

 

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

 

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

 

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care