NHS LANARKSHIRE

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

The post-holder will provide overall leadership and management of the Tobacco, Vaping, Alcohol, and Cannabis Team and delivery of the Tobacco and Vaping Programme Plan, which responds to:

• Tobacco and Vaping Framework, Roadmap to 2034. Scottish Government (2023)
• Review of smoking cessation services in Scotland, Advisory Group Report. Public Health Scotland (2023)

The focus will be on reducing health inequalities in priority groups i.e. infants, children and young people, pregnant women and their families, people with mental ill-health, people who are hospitalised due to smoking-related conditions and people who live in the 40% most deprived areas.
In the first two years of this ten-year programme of work, focus for the Tobacco and Vaping Programme Team is on the themes of People and Place and the Product theme is the responsibility of partners from both North and South Lanarkshire Local Authorities.

Sub-themes have been developed as follows:

• People: Information, Engagement, Protection, Service Development, Delivery
• Place: Smoke-free spaces
• Product: Enforcement

In addition, the post-holder will have responsibility for the delivery of Health Improvement actions that respond to local Alcohol & Drug Partnership Plans.
As well as leading the Tobacco, Vaping, Alcohol and Cannabis Leadership Team, the post-holder comprises part of the Senior Management Team within Health Improvement providing leadership and direction for the overall function.