Stop Smoking Specialist

2 months ago


Harrogate, United Kingdom Yorkshire Cancer Research Full time

**Stop Smoking Specialist**
**Harrogate, North Yorkshire**

We offer hybrid working and we are committed to paying the Real Living Wage.

**About Us**

Yorkshire Cancer Research is the largest independent cancer charity in England. With an ambitious goal of saving 2000 lives a year, it is an exciting time to be joining the charity. Every week in Yorkshire almost 600 people are told they have cancer, by working for Yorkshire Cancer Research you are helping to protect and save these lives.

Yorkshire is big, beautiful and diverse and, as an inclusive employer, our aim is that our workforce reflects the rich diversity of our region. We believe a diverse workforce is central to us achieving our strategic goal of saving more lives in our region. We offer equal opportunities regardless of race, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnerships.

Yorkshire Cancer Research is entering an exciting period in its development. As part of this we are expanding our team at our Head Office and a number of new roles are being created. As such, we are now looking for a number of Stop Smoking Specialists to support our Research, Services and Policy team.

**The Role**

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Yorkshire Cancer Research to join our newly developed stop smoking service. The charity has successfully invested in several large-scale programmes to reduce smoking rates across Yorkshire and we are now launching our own stop smoking service to support people to quit smoking. The service will build on our successes in funding other services, the evidence produced by our research funding, and our policy expertise.

As the service develops, we will be looking for several experienced Stop Smoking Specialists to support the delivery of this service.

Yorkshire Cancer is committed to funding and delivering innovative research and pioneering services that support people to live long and healthy lives free from cancer. We are investing over £100m in groundbreaking research and services with a focus on 3 topics:

- Reducing the risk of developing cancer, including supporting people to stop smoking
- Improving early diagnosis and cancer screening
- Improving treatments

The next few years will see a period of significant and exciting activity for Yorkshire Cancer Research. We are embarking upon a new and ambitious strategy that will see us growing substantially as a charity, investing in delivering our own services to increase our impact further.

These will be exciting and challenging but extremely rewarding roles. If you are enthusiastic, motivated, and looking to make a big difference, then this is the role for you

Specifically in this role, you will:

- Autonomously deliver smoking cessation assessments, advice and support, minimizing harm from tobacco and health-related issues in line with best guidance and protocols.
- Undertake client assessments, making appropriate pharmacotherapy decisions, provide ongoing client support and undertaking 4 and 12 week follow-ups.
- Advise on stop smoking medications to patients including all forms of NRT, vapes (e.cigarettes) as well as non-nicotine treatments.
- Undertake Carbon Monoxide (CO) testing for patients who engage with the service. Both at first contact with the service and 28 days following discharge (where possible).
- Liaise with health care providers to ensure robust continuity of care for the patients, including arranging prescription only stop smoking medication (agreeing follow-up appointments/contacts, feeding back to healthcare partners e.g., GP/primary care.
- Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of the service, including the completion of the minimum data set aligned to NHS England mandatory requirements. This will include following up with patients following discharge to monitor stop smoking outcomes.
- Manage caseload of patients and be responsible for all associated tasks, including follow-up appointments, and managing diary commitments.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, providing clear verbal, digital or written information and instructions when sharing information, delegating, or handing over responsibility for care to ensure that smoking cessation records are kept up to date and accurate.
- Work with the Services Manager and Head of Services to ensure that public and patient insight and involvement is captured, which will shape the development, delivery and evaluation of our service to make sure they are patient centred.
- Work with the Services Manager and Head of Services to identify other areas that the charity could have an impact by implementing Health Initiatives and Services that meet the charity’s strategy.

**About You**
- Possess significant experience working in a smoking cessation service and/or have previous experience working within a hospital, clinical or community environment supporting people in behaviour change.
- Be NCSCT accredited.



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