Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified healthcare professional (Registered Nurse or Registered HCPC Allied Health Care Professional) to join our new Stop Smoking Service.   We are seeking an enthusiastic and confident Stop Smoking Advisor to support patients accessing Community Mental and Physical Health services.   

The successful candidate will work closely with Community Physical Health and Community Mental Health teams to promote and support Stop Smoking in line with regional and national best practice.

Using a flexible and innovative approach you will provide smoking cessation advice and support to service users in community settings and in their own homes via 1:1 face to face and telephone contacts and group support.   You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to fulfil this role and demonstrate the ability to engage with people and communities to motivate and support change in behaviour.

In this role you will be expected to work well within a team but also independently and without direct supervision. You should be well-organised and able to manage and prioritise your work to meet the needs of the service and the people you support. The role will involve working across different community clinics in Greenwich and conducting home visits, therefore the post holder must be able to travel around the borough independently. 

Main duties of the job

·  To deliver a bespoke and flexible stop smoking service to patients access healthcare through Adult Community Mental Health and Adult Community Physical Health services. 

·  To offer comprehensive behavioural support and pharmacological guidance to individuals who aim to quit smoking.  

·  Work collaboratively with community mental health and physical health clinical staff to promote the service and provide training support for conducting brief patient interventions.

·    Develop a referral pathway for patients to ensure timely access in collaboration with clinical staff

·       Delivering stop smoking sessions via group and one-one interventions in a variety of settings across Greenwich including home visits

Working for our organisation

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