About this role
Job summary
The Smoking Cessation Service is here to provide expert specialised care and health improvement advice to our patients who require it, alongside our midwifery and obstetric team. The role of the Service Manager is to ensure the smooth running of an effective Smoke Free Pregnancy Service and to participate in the promotion of public health messaging.
This role will be primarily but not exclusively based in Antenatal clinics around the BSOL ICS. The home base will be at Birmingham Women's Hospital. The role is to provide managerial oversight to the team to ensure a cohesive approach, implementing best practice and processes across the service.
Main duties of the job
- Develop a safe and efficient Smoke Free Pregnancy Service that meets local and regional guidelines, with support from the Lead Midwife.- Plan and deliver expert clinical advice and support for women and pregnant people, and their families, across various settings.- Manage a team of TDAs handling the caseload of smokers who are pre-conception, pregnant, and post-natal, including partners and families.- Use high-level communication and interpersonal skills to interpret complex information into motivational formats that empower the team to help clients make behavioural changes related to smoking.- Organise the activities of the Smoke Free Pregnancy Service, providing access to Nicotine Replacement Therapy and other stop smoking aids, performing individualised risk-benefit assessments, and liaising with pharmacy to adjust medications as necessary.- Participate in training and support other Health Care Professionals (HCPs) in delivering the Smoke Free Pregnancy Service, aiming to improve public health and address health inequalities.- Take responsibility for delivering objectives, promoting the service to HCPs and pregnant smokers, and engaging their families.- Participate in audits, data collection, and submission, including the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle v. 3.2 (SBLCBV3.2).- Ensure high standards of record-keeping
About us
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.
Parkview Clinic is a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Mental Health (CAMHS) facility in Moseley, for young people aged 11-18 years who require admission due to significant psychiatric difficulties.
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Degree and post-graduate diploma in a healthcare related subject or equivalent minimum 3 years' experience in smoking cessation Tobacco Dependency Practitioner Fully trained to NCSCT standard Recognized teaching and assessing/mentoring qualification or equivalent
Desirable
Leadership course or module
KNOWLEDGE & NATURE OF EXPERIENCE Essential
Relevant teaching and coaching skills, and delivery of tobacco dependency evidence to a variety of audiences (or working towards these) Awareness of data collection requirements for reporting and audits Ability to communicated with healthcare workers and service users
ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT SKILLS Essential
Able to make assessments and plans based on knowledge (gained as above), guidelines and protocols Use knowledge and guidance to make complex clinical decisions, and be able to escalate when appropriate.
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE Essential
Able to use Microsoft packages Able to manage a complex workload and lead service improvement, motivating and supporting a team Can evidence the skills needed to develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to support and develop the Smoke Free Pregnancy Service within the Trust
Desirable
A working knowledge of Badgernet, and other maternity systems or willing to learn Experience managing a team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Employer details Employer name Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address Birmingham Women's Hospital
Birmingham Women's Hospital
Birmingham
B15 2TG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)