Stop Smoking Practitioner - Secondary Care in Mansfield

As a Tobacco Dependency Practitioner for Secondary Care, you will be an integral part of Smoking Cessation in hospitals, working alongside existing hospital-based Tobacco Dependence Teams to ensure a medical model of care for tobacco dependency is an integrated part of routine client care by all health professionals. Ultimately this programme will lead to the most significant referral route for the overall smoking cessation service within the county. Training will be given to ensure staff/applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.

Main duties of the job

• Your key responsibilities will include delivering smoking cessation and tobacco dependency support from hospital admission through to community follow-up.
• You will embed cessation into routine care, providing one-to-one, group, and remote interventions in line with NICE and NCSCT guidelines.
• The role involves motivating clients to make informed decisions, setting sustainable goals, and managing a caseload.
• You will collaborate with clinical teams and partner services, lead peer support groups, engage clients at community events, and maintain accurate records.
• You will also support staff development, contribute to service improvement, attend relevant meetings and training, and promote integrated, evidence-based care.

We are looking for a passionate, organised, and experienced professional who can prioritise effectively and thrive in a fast-paced, evolving service.

About us

ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence-based, innovative, effective, and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities, and stakeholders.

Job responsibilities

• To be responsible for the assessment, planning and delivery of a programme of smoking cessation/tobacco dependency care to clients at the hospital bedside and follow up seamlessly into the community on discharge.
• To support with embedding smoking cessation/tobacco dependency into routine medical care.
• Assisting clinical teams in providing advice to help tobacco users to stop smoking or using other forms of tobacco.
• Ensure tobacco dependency interventions you will be delivering comply with NICE and NCSCT guidance.
• Work cohesively with other services to ensure multi-agency working is integrated into tobacco dependency.
• Identify opportunities to develop and improve services for clients.
• Contribute to the development of secondary care staff.
• Motivate and empower clients to make changes to address their addiction.
• Explain to clients the principles of the Stop Smoking Service to enable them to make informed choices.
• Deliver evidence-based stop smoking interventions, including one-to-one, drop-in, group sessions, telephone, or online 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.
• 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 as ongoing 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.
• 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.
• Maintain own knowledge of evidence-based methods and integrate new research into own practice.
• Assist in the organisation of the workload ensuring effective and efficient communication to other staff members.
• Conduct stakeholder engagement, identify and strengthen referral pathways and identify potential co-working opportunities.
• Attend stakeholder meetings as required.
• Attend regular Stop Smoking Service Meetings.
• Attend training as required and keep up to date with the wider aspects of Tobacco Control.

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. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as the service becomes embedded in all local communities across the borough.
• Work as part of the secondary care team within the boundaries of an honorary contract.
• Build relationships with relevant hospital personnel to ensure own expertise is utilised to influence evidence-based practice is embedded and governed by hospital policies and protocols.
• Work cohesively with other services to ensure smoking cessation/tobacco dependency is integrated within multi-agencies.
• Participate in meetings applicable to the development of the Smoking Cessation/tobacco dependency programme within secondary care.
• Ensure a robust and timely referral care pathway is embedded within secondary care.
• Ensure clients have access to appropriate pharmacotherapy as speedily as possible on admission to hospital.
• Deliver smoking cessation/tobacco dependency interventions with clients at the bedside and ensure a seamless transition into ABL Health community services.

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.

Person Specification

• Experience of working in community settings.
• Knowledge of child protection and safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
• Experience of developing and delivering training to target audiences.
• Understanding of national guidance and ability to disseminate research and best practice.

Qualifications

• Higher level education or health/social care/public health/professional qualification, or experience working within smoking cessation, other addiction or behaviour change.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.