Smoke Free Maternity Support Worker London, England
Job description
Are you looking for a varied but interesting new post in the NHS? If so, then look no further.
If you are you interested in a specialist maternity support worker role then an exciting opportunity has arisen for you.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Maternity Support Worker to play a pivotal role in the delivery of care to our women/birthing people who are looking for support to stop smoking
You will work with the Smokefree pregnancy team to provide individualised smoking cessation support to women and families in a flexible and innovative way.
If you have a passion for providing high standards of care and good communication skills then please apply.
You will work with the Specialist smoke free pregnancy midwife and other team members.
You will provide intermediate smoking cessation support throughout pregnancy and the postnatal period, using the support of interventions such as CO monitoring and Nicotine replacement therapy.
You will work with the specialist midwife for smoking cessation to undertake the smokefree pregnancy reward scheme with the women/birthing people and their families who meet the criteria.
You will also be responsible for the administration of the incentive scheme data collection and collation.
You will be able to work with minimal supervision operating within the assessed level of competence and being accountable for all aspects of your own work.
You will work in close liaison with the local stop smoking services and the consultant midwife.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
As an organisation, we’ve made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of “Good” in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of “Good” that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust’s improvement journey, as we’ve stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We’ve also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.
Work with the Specialist Smoke free pregnancy midwife and other team members in providing individualised smoking cessation support to women and families in a flexible an innovative way.
Provide intermediate smoking cessation support throughout pregnancy and the postnatal period, using the support of interventions such as CO monitoring and Nicotine Replacement therapy. Work with the specialist midwife, smoking cessation to undertake the Smokefree pregnancy reward scheme with those women and families who meet the criteria, along with administration of the incentive scheme data collection and collation.
Work with minimal indirect supervision operating within the assessed level of competence and being accountable for all aspects of own work.
Close liaison with local stop smoking services and work closely with the consultant midwife.
