Location
London

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
£55,046 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 specialist care for patients from further afield. The Trust is renowned for clinical excellence, teaching, and research, and is part of King’s Health Partners, an accredited UK academic health sciences centre. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality, safe care with a focus on patient experience and staff engagement.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Acute Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team as a Tobacco Dependence Treatment Specialist. You will work as part of a small, experienced team delivering tobacco dependence treatment across two hospital sites. The role involves developing and delivering services aligned with the NHS Long Term Plan for tobacco, including ward-based interventions, outpatient clinics, and multidisciplinary team training. This position supports the Trust’s commitment to prevention and optimising physical health and wellbeing.

The post holder will contribute to the Trust’s initiatives such as the Long Term Plan (LTP) and Vital 5 programmes, helping to promote and improve patient health through tobacco dependence treatment. You will be responsible for training clinical staff in very brief advice (VBA), monitoring compliance with core care standards, delivering clinical interventions for withdrawal management and smoking cessation, managing outpatient clinics, and supporting the ongoing development and roll-out of tobacco dependence programmes.

The team is friendly and well-established, guided by the Trust’s values of Caring, Ambitious, and Inclusive, ensuring compassionate, innovative, and collaborative care.

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.
- Caseload management experience.
- Experience developing and delivering training for health professionals.
- Experience setting up Tobacco Dependence Treatment Clinics.
- Experience with audit and 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 own workload, prioritise tasks, delegate appropriately, and work effectively amid change and uncertainty.
- Effective 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.
- Stop Smoking Practitioner Training (accredited by the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training) Level 2.

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