Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-1261-DIR-S
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Jessop Wing
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £25,760 - £27,476 pa/ pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/05/2026
Employer heading
Tobacco Dependence Advisor-Maternity
NHS AfC: Band 3
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and forward thinking team and make a real difference, by supporting pregnant women and their families to improve their own health and the health of their unborn babies. Working alongside the specialist smoking cessation midwifery team, you will provide face to face and remote support to help women, their significant others and staff to quit smoking.
Main duties of the job
Promote the general health and wellbeing of people who use the service through offering healthy lifestyle advice and support.
Work with people to change their behaviour and to improve their health, including patients and staff.
Act as a smoke free champion, promoting the smoke free message through their day to day work.
Provide advice and support to maternity staff, including reinforcing the training provided to inpatient teams by the Smoking cessation midwifery team.
Ensure robust support planning for inpatients and their significant others, referring appropriately to specialist midwives and other services for increased intervention and ongoing support.
Working for our organisation
The Directorate of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology is based at the Jessop Wing which is linked to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and is a maternity unit with Baby Friendly accreditation. The maternity unit has approximately 6500 births per year and is a Regional Tertiary Maternity Service with a Level 3 Neonatal Unit of 44 cots. A Tertiary Gynae-Oncology service and Gynaecology Service, which includes an Assisted Conception Unit, complete the services within the Directorate.
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
We are working in partnership with our Local Maternity System across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan, tobacco control agenda and promote equitable care to all women within our services.
We can offer you:-
A supportive team environment in which to provide high standards of quality care.
Excellent opportunities including role specific public health smoking cessation training and mandatory training.
On-going support from our experienced specialist midwifery team.
A diverse population and client group.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to GCSE (or equivalent) grade C/4 or above in English and Maths or equivalent experience/ qualifications.
- NVQ level 3 in Health care (or equivalent).
- Smoking Cessation Training Level 2 or willing to undertake within 3 months of starting in post.
Desirable criteria
- Specific training in health promotion interventions.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS in the community or hospital setting.
- Experience of providing healthcare, healthcare advice or health promotion advice to patients or members of the public.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing help, support and/or counselling on a one to one or group basis.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Computer literate, experience of using Microsoft Office software.
- Knowledge of evidence based smoking cessation initiatives.
- Ability to work and communicate in group settings.
- Good knowledge and understanding of evidence based practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationship with professional/ individuals from different professional backgrounds
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and listening skills.
- Good organisational skills
- Understand and maintain confidentiality issues
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using clinical systems
- Understanding of audit and evaluation
- Knowledge of principles of health promotion and issues of health inequality
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Well-developed interpersonal skills.
- Enthusiasm and ability to motivate self and others
- Commitment to the promotion of equality of opportunity.
- Fully supportive of Trust’s smoke free policy acting as a smoke free champion.
- Ability to work flexible hours when team / service requires including evenings and weekends.
- UK driving licence
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Beau Warren
- Job title
- Lead Midwife for Public Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07584775301
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