Part Time / 22 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 23 months due to funding
Play a key role in improving population health in Leicester and more specifically improving the provision of Tobacco Dependency care in Leicester’s hospitals.
This is an exciting opportunity to support the NHS Tobacco Dependency Programme across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR), targeting Acute, Mental Health and Maternity patients. This is a partnership programme which involves collaboratively working with many stakeholders across organisations such as Local Authority Public health teams and community stop smoking teams, the University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL), Leicestershire Partnership Trust (LPT) and the Integrated Care Board (ICB).
Join our enthusiastic team of Project managers and NHS based Tobacco Dependency Advisors (otherwise known as The CURE team) who aim to support all smokers admitted to hospital through appropriate medication and empathetic and friendly behavioural advice at bedside, which will enable them to start their journey to quitting and improving their overall health.
You’ll have flexibility for hybrid working with the expectation to split the week between remote and office-based working. Office based working will be available at City Hall and Leicester’s Hospital sites (Glenfield Hospital, Leicester Royal Infirmary and The General) to suit the needs of the role.
This is a part-time, fixed term post for 23 months, working 22 hours per week.
We will consider this vacancy on a secondment basis for Leicester City Council employees. If you wish to apply for this post on a secondment basis then please make your line manager aware before applying.
What you’ll be doing
Providing critical project assistance, you’ll organise and co-ordinate current and new projects that aim to improve quality of care and service outcomes. You’ll assist with co-ordination and delivering of staff training, build relationships with hospital staff, raise awareness of the CURE team through marketing and communication activities and advocate the importance of Tobacco treatment for every patient identified. You’ll set up and manage meetings, take minutes, and monitor actions for services and strategic groups such as the LLR NHS Tobacco Steering Group. Working with both primary and secondary organisations, you’ll support with tasks to deliver quality improvement projects and evaluations, using data analysis, national resources, and innovative thinking. You’ll provide other support needs in relation to finances, preparing documentation, and dealing with enquiries from both staff and public.
What you’ll need
Highly experienced in undertaking complex admin and finance tasks, you’ll demonstrate excellent customer care skills when dealing with customers and stakeholders. Using proficient IT skills, you’ll confidently use MS teams, SharePoint, and other Microsoft platforms, as well as both Local Authority and Hospital based IT systems to support operational project delivery and monitoring. You’ll have effective communication skills to build and maintain strong working relationships with both operational and strategic levels of staff. As an independent, proactive individual, you’ll have good organisational and co-ordination skills and be able to work under pressure to deliver set objectives and small projects. Your creative keen eye for detail and ability to problem solve, will allow you to successfully present ideas on how to improve Tobacco Dependency services, and contribute towards developing the team’s ideas into resources that can be used to aid this further.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Claire Mellon, Programme Manager at claire.mellon@leicester.gov.uk.
Interviews / Assessments will take place on the 24th of April