Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Blackpool, Blackpool, United Kingdom Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

It is the vision of Fylde Coast partners to create a tobacco free Fylde Coast and in turn remove all the health harms associated with tobacco addiction.

Key to this is supporting all partners to ensure that helping people to stop smoking and recognising smoking as an addiction is a collective and collaborative effort.


The NHS Long Term Plan identifies smoking as one of the top five risk factors that cause premature deaths in England.

As such, the NHS is investing in front line services to tackle tobacco dependence for all inpatients, pregnant women and their partners and high-risk outpatient service by 2023/24.

The Trust's Inpatient Smokefree Service supports patients and staff to stop smoking or to reduce the amount they smoke.

As a service, it also leads on developing smokefree sites within the Trust, promoting the smokefree message across the ground and provides training to staff on tobacco harm reduction and smoking cessation training.


The Inpatient Smokefree Service is the first element of a broader Smokefree programme, which will also increase the Trust's focus on other aspects of prevention, including health promotion and improvement strategies.

Together with our community-based smoking cessation services, the Trust's wider Smokefree programme will improve patient health and reduce premature mortality by creating an environment and culture that support reducing and directly treating tobacco dependence across the Fylde Coast.


As a Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner within the Inpatient Smokefree Service, you will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to stop smoking.

You will provide tobacco treatment advice and support to individuals, who want to stop smoking, reduce their harm from tobacco or for temporary abstinence for both patients and staff when in the hospital.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester.

The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.


As one of the United Kingdom's largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents - it's not just a good place to work; it's a great place to live.

In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower.

Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade.

Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.


The post holder will:

Communication and Relationship Skills

  • To liaise with and empower patients to develop, implement and evaluate their own stop smoking plan, considering scientific evidence, NICE guidance, and the experiences of the individual patient.
  • Following assessment of the patient, to provide tailored support and motivational interviewing to patients, to gain commitment to quit.
  • To work within a framework of flexibility, acknowledging individual patient preferences and accommodating the needs of each individual patient.
  • To educate and motivate patients in relation to tobacco control, particularly with respect to secondhand smoke and approaches to minimising risk.
  • To develop and maintain effective communications and working relationships with all key smoking cessation and tobacco control partners.
  • To liaise with and influence relevant health and other professionals to ensure that the service retains a high profile and acts as a key priority service for patients suffering from chronic disease.
  • To continually promote the service, including distributing promotional literature, attendance at events and presentations to groups when requested.
Knowledge, Training and Experience

  • Extensive relevant knowledge of evidencebased information on smoking cessation approaches and methods.
  • Attend bespoke training events as requires by the Trust, local Public Health and Commissioning authorities and management for career and continuous professional development.
  • Participate in the delivery of smoking cessation training for new practitioners in line with agreed standards.
  • Extensive knowledge of healthrelated behaviour change evidence.
  • Responsible for continuous learning knowledge of smoking cessation using the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) online training packages.
  • Comply with statutory and mandatory requirements in line with Trust policy.
Analytical, Monitoring and Evaluation Skills

  • To meet measurable objectives including performance and quality standards in line with Trust procedures.
  • Be responsible with your line manager for identifying appropriate personal development plans.
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