Severe Mental Illness

**Bluesci Specialist Mental Health Welfare Rights Worker**

**Job Purpose**:
The Stop Smoking Practitioner/ Coordinator key responsibilities are to coordinate the Trafford SMI Stop Smoking Service.
- Provide a leadership role in service planning, development, implementation and coordination of the SMI stop smoking service
- To work closely with front-line staff & volunteers to develop Stop Smoking support to ensure they provide evidence based effective stop smoking interventions.
- To take accountability and responsibility for reporting and ensure monthly updates are provided to the Directors
- To coordinate the implementation of a robust training and mentoring programme

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**Core Duties**
- Support service/Centre Managers to ensure there is strong awareness in relation to the referral pathway to access the service
- To actively lead in the promotion and advertisement of the stop smoking service.
- To support the SMI Stop Smoking service functionally by providing support to individuals to develop stop smoking plans and support behaviour change.
- Identify and engage with individuals on the SMI register encouraging them to access the Stop Smoking service.
- Liaise with services and providers who work with and support individuals on the SMI registerestablishing and reviewing referral pathways.
- To work and be based in the local community to identify local leaders, champions and advocates, to ensure that the service develops in line with local need and is embedded in the local community.
- Support the service’s volunteer engagement strategy.
- To champion and adhere to processes and procedures to identify and strive for continuing improved quality throughout the individual’s experience, together with robust data management.
- Take an active part in developing own knowledge and skills of others by mentoring, supervision and review.
- Be compliant with all relevant policies, procedures and guidelines, including the appropriate code(s) of conduct associated with this post
- Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes high quality.

**SUMMARY**

This job description is an outline of the key responsibilities of the SMI Stop Smoking Practitioner and is not intended as an exhaustive list. The job may change over time to reflect the changing needs of the Organisation and its services, as well as the personal development needs of the post holder.

All employees within the Organisation have the following responsibilities:
The post holder must not, by act or omission, endanger the safety of him/herself or others and must report all untoward occurrences. The post holder must be responsible for all the Organisations property and the reporting of all potential or actual breaches of security.

**Disclosure of Criminal Background**

Successful applicants will be asked to complete and sign a Disclosure Form giving permission for the screening to take place.

Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with the Organisation. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of offences.

Please note applicants refusing to sign the form will not be progressed further.

“The Organisation actively seeks to recruit people currently under represented in the workforce. This includes people from ethnic minority groups, those with mental health and physical disability”.

**Confidentiality**

All information relating to individuals using the service and Staff through your employment with Bluesci is confidential. Disclosure to any unauthorised person is a serious disciplinary offence.

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**SMI Stop Smoking Practitioner**

**Essential**

**Desired**

**KNOWLEDGE**
- Sound knowledge of challenges to achieving health improvement amongst vulnerable and deprived communities.
- Knowledge of community engagement principle
- Good knowledge and understanding of mental health issues, including SMI.
- knowledge of delivering stop smoking interventions and advising on stop/reduce smoking to SMI populations.
- Knowledge of NICE guidance, NCSCT and PHE standards relating to the treatment of stop smoking

**SKILLS & ABILITIES**
- Excellent written, verbal, non-verbal communication and presentation skills
- Understanding of harmful effects of smoking, smoking as an addiction behaviour, withdrawal and relapse
- Computer literate - ability to maintain and monitor information systems in line with the national minimum dataset and adapt to reflect local needs.
- Able to plan and organise activities and programmes
- Supportive and encouraging to people in difficult (sometimes frustrating) situations.
- Flexible and adaptable approach to working.
- Value and respectful of other people - regardless of background or circumstances.
- Able to respect confidentiality.
- Good empathy skills.
- Clear understanding of the range and appropriate use of different stop smoking interventions

**LEADERSHIP**
- Abil