Stop Smoking Practitioner - Hospital

This role is extremely rewarding in making a difference to people's 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 deprivation. It is essential that the postholder can work flexibly, independently and as part of a team. This role will also have an element of supporting pathways to the service from local hospitals to ensure referrals are coming into the service when clients/patients are discharged from hospital.

Main duties of the job:

• Work collaboratively with team colleagues and local hospital contacts to promote the service, encourage referrals, and embed smoking cessation as a routine part of client and patient care.
• Motivate and empower individuals to address nicotine addiction, explaining the principles of nicotine dependence and the Stop Smoking Service to support informed decision-making.
• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based smoking cessation interventions in line with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme, including one-to-one support, group sessions, drop-ins, telephone and online interventions.
• Analyse health, equality and service data to identify local needs, deliver efficient and cost-effective services across diverse community settings, and lead peer support groups to help prevent relapse following successful quits.
• Provide education on smoking cessation and behavioural change, supporting clients to set realistic and sustainable goals, and ensuring all client and service records are accurate, up to date, and compliant with ABL Health documentation policies.

Reporting to the Head of Service, this is a varied, challenging and rewarding role requiring strong judgement, organisation and the ability to prioritise competing demands as the service continues to develop and integrate across the borough.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Work with colleagues in the team and local hospital contacts to ensure the service is promoted and referred into and ensure that smoking cessation is embedded as part of routine client/patient care.
• 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, including one-to-one, drop-in, group sessions, telephone, or online support, in accordance with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme.
• Understand the analysis of health and equalities data including service data identifying local need to inform local service need.
• Provide 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 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.

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.

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 cooperation 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.

Due to the nature of this role and potential for regular travel across the Borough, we require applicants to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

Information Governance:

Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The postholder must not disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation during or after their employment.

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.

Safeguarding is Everyone's Business:

ABL has a responsibility to ensure that all children/young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. All ABL's employees, temporary staff and volunteers are required to adhere to ABL's safeguarding policies/procedures.

Training:

The postholder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.

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.