Health in Pregnancy Advisor

Join Our Team as a Health in Pregnancy Advisor - Make a Difference in the Lives of Expectant Mothers!

Are you passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles and supporting pregnant women on their journey to a smoke-free pregnancy? We have an exciting opportunity for you to play a vital role in our dedicated Health in Pregnancy team!

As a Health in Pregnancy Advisor, you'll work closely with our Specialist Stop Smoking Midwife, providing essential information, social support, and psychological care to pregnant women and their families. You'll engage with expectant mothers in various settings, offering personalized guidance and encouragement to help them embrace a healthier lifestyle during pregnancy.

If you're committed to making a real impact and supporting women in achieving smoke-free pregnancies, we want you on our team. Join us in this rewarding role and be part of a service that truly changes lives!

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

1. Manage and Support Clients: Oversee a caseload of clients, adjusting your workload to provide tailored smoking cessation support that meets their unique needs.
2. Engage and Empower Vulnerable Groups: Connect with and support vulnerable, hard-to-reach clients as part of a multidisciplinary team, communicating sensitive information with empathy and care.
3. Promote Lasting Behaviour Change: Utilise motivational interviewing techniques to encourage positive behaviour changes in clients.
4. Conduct Comprehensive Assessments: Perform detailed health and social assessments for pregnant women, including those who are vulnerable, and guide them to additional services as needed.
5. Deliver Best Practice Support: Provide smoking cessation services in line with NHS best practices, the long-term plan, and NICE guidelines, visiting clients in their homes and other healthcare settings.
6. Advise on Treatments: Recommend and provide appropriate treatments, including nicotine replacement therapy and vapes, offering support to wider family members where necessary, and ensure accurate data recording using carbon monoxide monitors.
7. Data collection: To support upward reporting and audit.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person Specification

• Working in a hospital environment experience
• Previous smoke/stop experience

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.

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum pro rata for part time