Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner
3 weeks ago
26th July 2021
**Job Type**: Permanent
**Hours**:37.5 hours
**Salary**:£21,756.80- £26,000 per annum, depending on experience
**Location**:University Hospital of North Durham (with travel across Co. Durham/Darlington)
**Closing Date**: 17th February 2023
Please quote reference: ABL 390
**Role Purpose**:
The Government 10 - year forward plan has highlighted NICE PH48 as the way forward to have the biggest impact on the reduction of smoking prevalence in England, ultimately the intervention which will have the biggest drive in reducing health inequalities nationally.
As a Specialist Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Practitioner for Secondary Care you will be an integral part of Smoking Cessation in hospitals, ensuring a medical model of care for smoking cessation 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.
**Your key responsibilities will be**:
- To embed smoking cessation into routine medical care
- To be responsible for assisting clinical teams in providing Smoking Cessation to help tobacco users to stop smoking.
- 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.
- Contribute to the development of secondary care staff.
- To be responsible for the assessment, planning and delivery of a programme of smoking cessation care to clients at the hospital bedside and follow up seamlessly into the community on discharge.
**Skills and Competencies Required**:
**Essential**:
- Relevant degree (health/social care/public health)/ professional qualification / or significant experience working within smoking cessation
- Project management experience
- NCSCT Practitioner
- Knowledge of the wider tobacco control agenda
- Understanding of service key performance indicators/ service deliverables and ability read and manipulate data
- Understanding concepts of behaviour change and how to implement these
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing at all levels with individuals, groups and the public
- The ability to travel independently across County Durham
- Work flexibly and adapt to suit service need
**Desirable**:
- Project management qualification
- Teaching / Training qualification
- Experience of developing and delivering training to target audiences
- Understanding of national guidance and ability to disseminate research and best practice
For more details please see the attached job description.
Employee Benefits
CV’s will not be accepted.
Strictly no agencies.
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