Job responsibilities
This role is extremely rewarding in making a difference to peoples lives. The role of the Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner is to support the delivery of evidenced based, equitable stop smoking services to help to reduce the inequalities throughout the contracted localities. This will include the delivery of services within areas of most deprivation with a focus on some key groups. It is essential that the postholder can work flexibly, independently and as part of a team.
Smokefree Sefton is looking to recruit a Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner to work primarily with our key priority groups.
This role will cover a number of community based clinics delivering stop smoking support to clients, including some of the priority groups listed below.
LGBTQ+ community,
Care Leavers / Unpaid carers
Mental health conditions including depression or anxiety
Routine and Manual workers
Clients from 20% most deprived areas
Training will be given to ensure staff / applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.
Your key responsibilities will be:
Engage with smokers across Sefton with a primary focus on the clients in the groups above
Motivate and empower clients to make changes to address their addiction.
Explain to clients the principles of the nicotine and Stop Smoking Service to enable them to make informed choices.
Deliver evidence-based stop smoking interventions, these include one to one, drop in, group sessions, telephone, or on-line support in accordance with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme.
Work with other professionals to embed smoking cessation as part of routine client care.
Maximise the impact of smoking cessation on health gains and reduce health inequalities.
To understand the analysis of health and equalities data including service data identifying local need to inform local service need.
Provide a high quality, efficient and cost-effective services throughout a diverse range of community settings.
Lead peer support group sessions for successful quitters following intervention to prevent relapse.
Provide evidence-based education in all aspects of smoking cessation and behavioural change as well on-going motivational support.
Work with individuals to set realistic sustainable goals.
Ensure all client and service records are up to date, accurate and satisfy the ABL Health documentation policies.
You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive individual with significant experience in smoking cessation or addiction.
This role will be demanding as services develop and should become integrated in all settings. It will be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competing demands and workload effectively to specific timescales.
Duties and Responsibilities
This post will work under the line management of the Head of Service and the Project lead. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as the service becomes embedded in all local communities across the borough.
Skills and Competencies Required
Be an experienced Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner within the community. (Training will be given)
Experience of working with evolving and developing services
Positive and proactive outlook with the ability to motivate, engage and support others to achieve the highest standards and outcomes.
Adept in communication; A strong communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience including clients, staff, and volunteers at all levels.
Build strong relationships, foster trust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders throughout community settings.
Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them.
Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.
Standard Information
Information Governance
Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.
The postholder will be required, when and where appropriate to the role, to comply with the processing of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The postholder must comply with ABLs policies that protect the information assets of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use. The postholder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and/or corporate records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in ABLs records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.
Health & Safety
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the postholder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
Safeguarding is Everyones Business
ABL has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. As a consequence, all ABLs employees, temporary staff and volunteers are required to adhere to ABLs safeguarding policies / procedures in addition to local and national safeguarding policies and to act upon any concerns in accordance with them.
Smoke Free
ABL is Smoke - Free. Smoking is not permitted on any of our premises or the surrounding land including car parking facilities.
Training
The postholder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.
The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give an overview of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the postholder.
Equality, Diversity & Human Rights
It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways to support equality and diversity and to respect human rights, working within the spirit and detail of legislation including the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998. ABL is an equal opportunities employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality and respect human rights.
