Assistant Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest and busiest hospital Trusts in the North of England providing services to 1 million patients per year. Our vision is world class services and hospitals for the people of Merseyside, Cheshire and beyond.

The post-holders will be joining a successful and expanding clinical service, delivering intense smoking cessation support to smokers admitted to hospital.

Underpinning practice is the CURE philosophy of Conversation, Understanding, Replacement & Expertise. In order to deliver this effectively, the successful applicant will need excellent communication, motivational and organisational skills and work as part of a smoking cessation team across all LUHFT sites.

The post-holder will be part of an exciting new LUHFT clinical service delivering intense smoking cessation support to smokers admitted to hospital. Assistant practitioners have their own delegated caseloads, working under agreed clinical pathways and within defined competence.

Underpinning the service will be the CURE philosophy of Conversation, Understanding, Replacement & Expertise.

In order to deliver this effectively, the successful applicants

will need excellent communication, motivational and organisational skills and work as a key part of a smoking cessation team across all LUFT sites.

They will be expected to motivate and engage sick smokers, provide individualised patient management plans whilst in hospital, facilitate follow-up support post-discharge and ensure effective handover of care to established specialist community services.

Applications are invited from highly motivated and engaging individuals meeting the criteria for AfC4 Assistant Practitioners to join this exciting and developing service.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Undertake & document comprehensive inpatient smoking assessments to

include full smoking history, past quit attempts, use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and current motivator(s) to quit

Deliver a patient-led treatment plan to promptly manage nicotine addiction and prevent symptoms of withdrawal whilst admitted, in accordance with

national and local guidelines

Monitor effectiveness of treatment programmes set for individual patients and adjust as necessary

Support patients in adopting the correct techniques for effective NRT delivery

Motivate and empower patients to address nicotine addiction, recognising their hospital admission as a significant “teachable moment”

Develop and maintain close working relationships with ward-based medical, nursing, pharmacy staff, other LUFT Allied Health Professionals and community based smoking cessation services

Be flexible in how the service is delivered, providing high quality inpatient

telephone support (if clinically necessary) for patients referred to the service

Undertake administrative duties relating to referrals, team activity and clinics on LUFT IT systems, ensuring timely dissemination of patient appointments, products and multidisciplinary correspondence where necessary act as a resource for smoking cessation knowledge and advice for the MDT within the hospital and community settings

Support Clinical Lead and Team Lead in ensuring the on-going development of effective, evidence-based practice through the establishment and delivery of a programme of training and education for Trust staff

Liaise with LUFT Communications Department to identify and actively

participate in relevant and appropriate promotional events related to the work of the service


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