Job responsibilities
Training
will be given to ensure staff / applicants are equipped to deliver effective
services.
Your key responsibilities will be:
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, these must be 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.
Manage a caseload
To engage and recruit potential clients at promotional and community events
Provide administrative assistance to the service in terms of client contacts, appointment bookings and confirmations
Identify opportunities to develop and improve services
for clients
Maintain own knowledge of evidence-based methods and integrate new research
into own practice
Attend regular
Stop Smoking Service
Meetings
Attend training
as required and keep up to date with the wider aspects
of Tobacco Control
Attend
all training, internal and external to support the role
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 Operational Team
Lead (SFG). The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as the service
becomes embedded in all local communities across the borough.
Ensure all interventions are recorded and monitored through
utilising the ABL data system
Provide training to new Advisors on using and navigating the
system
Ensure all records are accurately maintained
Support the Service Manager to effectively performance manage the
system by providing reports a to personify and promote
a positive, collaborative and recovery-focused work ethic
To present a professional appearance, maintain an orderly working
environment, and act at all times to uphold the good reputation of ABL/ CGL,
leading by example
To be responsible for ensuring that all visitors and users of the
service have a positive experience, by being welcomed in a responsive, helpful
and professional manner, and by dealing promptly with any inappropriate
behaviour by staff, volunteers or service users
To attend required meetings at appointed times, maintain
professional personnel and management records and data, and meet deadlines
To work flexibly across the whole service, including late working,
weekends as required
To proactively maintain own professional knowledge, development
and practice, and contribute effectively to management meetings and supervision
To ensure risk and safeguarding issues are effectively assessed
and addressed, reporting any potential risk and safeguarding issues to ensure
the protection of staff, service users and children and data when requested.
To work within professional boundaries, always maintaining safety
and appropriate confidentiality
To promote, contribute to, and implement corporate initiatives as
required
To demonstrate clear commitment to ABL/CGLs Mission, Vision,
Values and strategy, ensuring that they inform, and are embedded within,
service planning, integration and delivery
To read and comply with all published CGL policies and procedures,
at the start of employment and whenever they are added to or changed
To work
flexibly within the organisation to undertake such other reasonable duties and
responsibilities, at any location within reasonable daily travel from your main
place of work.
Skills and
Competencies Required
Be an experienced Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner
within the CGL. (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.
Please note we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role
