Location
London

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
£46,419 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 wide range of hospital and community services across south London and beyond. We are proud of our clinical excellence, research, teaching, and commitment to patient-centred care. Our Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team is a small, friendly, and experienced group dedicated to improving patient health through tobacco dependence interventions.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team as a Tobacco Dependence Treatment Specialist. You will work across two hospital sites delivering tobacco dependence treatment to patients, including ward-based interventions, outpatient clinics, and multidisciplinary team training. This role supports the Trust’s Long Term Plan for tobacco control and contributes to a culture shift towards prevention and optimised physical health and wellbeing.

The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering tobacco dependence services, ensuring staff training in very brief advice (VBA), monitoring compliance with core care standards, managing outpatient clinics, and supporting the ongoing development and roll-out of tobacco dependence programmes throughout the hospital. You will work collaboratively to promote seamless care pathways and integrate tobacco dependence services into broader health initiatives.

Experience
- Minimum two years’ experience working within Tobacco Dependence Treatment or a patient-facing clinical role in an acute setting delivering one-to-one interventions.
- Experience working on target-driven programmes such as the Long Term Plan (LTP).
- Experience managing a caseload independently.
- Experience developing and delivering training to a range of health professionals.
- Experience setting up Tobacco Dependence Treatment Clinics.
- Experience with audit and service evaluation.

Desirable Experience
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams in an acute setting.
- Skills in using acute systems such as EPIC and PIMS.

About You
- Ability to manage your own workload, prioritise tasks, delegate appropriately, and work effectively in a changing environment.
- Strong interpersonal, motivational, and influencing skills.
- Ability to manage patients who may present with challenging behaviours.
- Adaptable to different working situations and able to interact with people from diverse backgrounds.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and innovative.

Qualifications
- Educated to degree level.
- Accredited Stop Smoking Practitioner Training (Level 2) by the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training.

Desirable Qualifications
- Independent Prescriber qualification.
- Postgraduate qualification in a health-related area.