Stop Smoking Health Coach

Job summary

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Local stop smoking services have been awarded extra funding support over the next five financial years to help create a smoke free generation. As part of this agenda, you will be one of our motivated Stop Smoking Health Coaches, providing brief interventions to the residents of Swindon with a specific focus on communities facing the greatest inequality. Your work will support individuals by providing targeted 1:1 Stop Smoking support for people in Swindon. The role will involve running clinics and drop-ins in the community, helping a set number of smokers to quit each year. You will also promote these clinics and drop-ins to ensure adequate client numbers, including face to face outreach, production/display of advertising materials and other promotional initiatives that attract local smokers.

You will bring skills in delivering health improvement interventions, partnership working and health promotion knowledge to a council where we put Swindon and its people at the heart of everything we do.

Applications are clearly welcomed from anyone that is already NCSCT qualified, but if not, you will be supported in becoming professionally certified. Your knowledge of early intervention as a means to improve health outcomes alongside an understanding of behaviour change models makes you an ideal candidate for this role.

Main duties of the job

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You will be delivering a 1:1 or group-based stop smoking service, and health promotion activity. You will motivate and support clients from targeted groups to achieve their desired goal of stopping smoking via a 12-week programme. You will work closely with the Project and Team Lead and Programme Manager along with colleagues in the wider team and will focus on ensuring that the Live Well offer is evidence based, person centred, well planned, safe and effective.

You will find ways to reach out to those facing greatest inequality and are creative and collaborative in your approach, inspiring and motivating lasting change.

About us

At Swindon Borough Council, we want our town to be the best it can be. Our ambitious vision is supported by realistic transformation programmes, with the people of Swindon at their heart. Because thats who were doing it for the communities and businesses that make our town great. As part of the Council, youll support a friendly local authority making decisions with real impact. Its all for better public services. Better processes. And a better quality of life, for everyone. Join us, and Swindon will be better with you.

Candidates must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act for the effective performance of a customer-facing role).

Please note Swindon Borough Council terms and conditions apply to this role.

As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. Its why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, youll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. Well look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, well achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And youll be proud to say it was made better with you.