Specialist Tobacco Reduction Practitioners
4 days ago
As a Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner within the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (Somerset FT Tobacco Reduction Service, you will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to stop smoking or reduce the harm from tobacco. You will provide tobacco treatment advice and support to individuals, who want to stop smoking, reduce their harm from tobacco or temporarily abstain from using tobacco (e.g. during hospital stays).
As a Specialist Somerset FT Tobacco Reduction Practitioner, you will play a key role integrating tobacco treatment into patients’ routine care.
You will be a motivated, passionate, organised and proactive individual with significant experience in smoking cessation and/or working within clinical environments. This role will be demanding as the hospital tobacco reduction programme develops and becomes integrated as part of routine clinical care. It will be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competing demands and workload effectively to specific timescales.
- To support the planning, delivery and recording of an effective tobacco reduction intervention that is matched to patient need.
- To ensure that a secure, confidential record system is maintained that allows prompt access to individual patients records when necessary.
- To liaise with staff within the hospital to ensure a timely and appropriate service of high quality is delivered according to demand, need and availability.
- To prioritise patients according to pre-set criteria, effectively establishing and managing own caseload.
- To be autonomous and responsible for assessing and agreeing patient requirements on a daily basis, including planning appropriate activities and products to meet those needs, considering own annual leave as well as seasonal fluctuations in demand.
- To educate and discuss with patients the advantages and disadvantages of smoking cessation pharmaceutical products, aiding the patient to choose the product or products which best suit their lifestyle and health status.
- To keep up to date with the changing evidence base, relevant policy pronouncements including NICE guidance, clinical developments and changes as directed by management, to provide an effective, high quality, safe service for patients.
- To undertake diverse training as the opportunity arises to acquire the specialist skills needed to develop the role.
- To ensure all patient records are stored correctly and confidentially in accordance with Caldicott guidelines.
We’re building a Trust that reflects the communities we serve. We’re strongly committed to equality and diversity, both in our organisation and in the services we provide. We want everyone here to be proud of and valued by our community. So, we’ll support you, your health and wellbeing in every way we can, every day.
With our support, the support of your colleagues and by supporting them in return, you can develop and achieve your full potential. That support and respect includes offering you the option to work flexibly, enabling you to better achieve a genuine balance between your work life and your personal life.
- To help the service embed smoking cessation into routine medical care
- To be responsible for assisting clinical teams in providing interventions to help tobacco users to stop smoking or reduce the harm from tobacco.
- Ensure all Smoking Cessation interventions comply with NICE, and NCSCT guidance.
- Work cohesively with other services to ensure multi-agency working is integrated into Smoking Cessation
- Identify opportunities to develop and improve services for clients.
- To be responsible for the assessment, planning and delivery of a programme of tobacco reductions interventions to clients at the hospital bedside and follow up seamlessly into the community on discharge.
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