Stop Smoking Advisor

2 weeks ago


Bicester, United Kingdom ICE Creates Full time

**Do you live in Oxfordshire and want to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of people living in your community?**

**Have you got experience of working within the health and wellbeing sector to support a wide range of clients on their stop smoking journeys?**

**Do you work in the NHS or in a health-related role such as HCA (Health Care Assistant) or Social Prescribing and looking for a change and a new challenge?**

**The role**

We are looking for people to work as part of a small highly skilled and passionate team delivering a **Stop Smoking Service, operating across Oxfordshire** to support local residents to quit smoking through a 3-tiered approach service.

The role is ideally suited to people with strong communication skills, who enjoy working with clients to support them to make improvements to their health.

We support clients to give up smoking through delivering tailored stop smoking support, including carrying out initial assessments and interventions using proven behaviour change techniques in line with national guidelines.

You will have a wide and varied caseload and will need to be able to prioritise multiple clients’ needs via multiple channels including in community settings, workplaces and virtually using digital media.

You will need to be an independent self-starter, flexible and driven by a desire to help people to positively change their lifestyle behaviours.

This is a Full-time role & **MUST **be able to drive and have access to a car.

Hybrid setting & will work from home, out in the community and in the office based on the service’s needs.

**Who We Are**

ICE is one of the fastest growing behaviour change organisations in the UK. We bring courage, energy, and ambition to equip & enable more organisations & people to move our world forward. To grow our significance as a leading behaviour change practice. By energising organisations & people to find the clarity, courage, & commitment needed to realise their full purpose & potential.

**Our Mission**

We are social activists driven to unlock your power, purpose, and possibility, we are for people and planet.

We **Make Better Happen**.

We are a purpose-driven organisation; our ethos and beliefs are important to us. As a team we hold and practice three core character traits and set around those character traits are the behaviours that matter to us as a team for our work together.

Whole Heartedness

**Bring passion and energy to our work, our colleagues and ourselves.**
- Be ready to work hard and give 100%
- Be your true self - bring your energy, enthusiasm, and full commitment to everything you do. Be a powerful inspiration for others.
- Recognise celebrate and share successes and celebrate and share success.
- Show you care, support your teammates when they need it and listen to them without judgement.
- Treat people with respect.

Trust

**Trust and intent to do the right thing.**
- Do the right thing. Ask yourself “did I do my best today?”
- Take ownership - do what you say you are going to do. If you notice something is not right or could be done better, take responsibility to find a resolution - don’t think “that’s not my job.”
- Have courage to be honest with yourself and others about what you can and can’t do. Reach out for support if you need it.

Being Curious and Creative

**Bringing our ideas to add value to what we do.**
- Explore ideas that are creative, unusual, not limited or controlled by rules or assumptions to bring new ideas and solutions.
- Share ideas, challenge, experiment and be open minded.
- Be curious, ask yourself, “what is it I don’t understand about this?”
- Try something new, make bold decisions - be brave - step outside your comfort zone and don’t be afraid to make mistakes - mistakes are opportunities to learn.
- Share learnings and welcome learnings from others.

**“We live by what we believe not by what we see.”**

**Are you right for the job?**
- You will need to be an independent self-starter, flexible and driven by a desire to help people positively change their lifestyle behaviours.
- You will be a people person and thrive on engaging people including clients and stakeholders/partners.
- You will be used to working towards outcome targets.
- You will live in the local area of Oxfordshire to be able to travel and work daily in the community and the office premises.
- You will own a car and be able to drive to client sites and other offices if required.

**Key elements of the day-to-day role**:

- Contribute to the assessment of clients for suitability for the service and eligibility for the right tier of support.
- To carry out CO testing using equipment provided.
- To assess nicotine dependence and readiness to quit using the Fagerstrom test.
- To support the client in making the best decision on pharmacotherapy - Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) products.
- Provide NRT via a voucher scheme/direct supply.
- Ensure appropriate records are kept for all