Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£56,276 per annum

About the Role
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS trusts, providing a full range of hospital and community services across south London and specialist care for patients from further afield. The Trust is renowned for clinical excellence, high quality teaching, and research, and is part of King’s Health Partners, an accredited UK academic health sciences centre.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead the Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team at Guy’s Hospital. You will be responsible for directing and delivering a range of tobacco dependence treatment interventions in the acute environment, managing a growing team of referral coordinators, tobacco dependence advisors, and specialists. Your role will include developing and delivering inpatient and outpatient clinics, ward-based interventions, outpatient clinics, and multidisciplinary team training across hospital sites.

You will lead the implementation of key initiatives including the Long Term Plan for tobacco, the COSTED programme in Emergency Department, and contribute to the Vital 5 agenda. This role supports the Trust’s commitment to prevention and promoting optimised physical health and wellbeing.

Main Duties
- Provide strategic framework, development, and operational management of the Trust’s stop smoking services
- Line manage the Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment team
- Collaborate with SEL ICB and community tobacco dependence colleagues to support service delivery
- Work with healthcare professionals to ensure Long Term Plan policies are embedded for patients in a smoke-free hospital environment
- Support and develop stop smoking initiatives such as Stop before the Op and COSTED
- Promote the stop smoking referral system across all hospital departments

Working for Our Organisation
We are a small, friendly, and experienced team committed to the Trust’s values:
Caring – putting patients first with compassionate, person-centred care
Ambitious – innovating and striving for excellence with integrity and efficiency
Inclusive – respecting diversity and working collaboratively to build an anti-racism organisation

Additional Information
The Trust is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, supporting flexible working arrangements and a healthy work-life balance. We encourage all applicants to discuss their individual circumstances during the recruitment process. Please ensure you meet UK work eligibility requirements before applying.

Experience
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in smoking cessation or tobacco control related work
- Proven track record of leading multi-agency partnerships or projects
- Demonstrable contribution to operational and strategic objectives
- Experience managing people and performance
- Experience developing performance management and monitoring frameworks
- Ability to build relationships across professional groups and agencies
- Desirable: Experience in an acute healthcare setting working across professional staff groups

About You
- Strong leadership and communication skills engaging with staff at all levels
- Flexible and adaptable to a rapidly changing environment
- Skilled in delivering complex project plans and managing work programmes
- Able to analyse and interpret statistical and numerical data
- Motivated, able to work independently and collaboratively
- Evidence of supporting change processes

Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience
- NCSCT qualified practitioner
- Desirable: Post-graduate qualification (Masters or post-graduate diploma) in a relevant field