Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Blackpool, United Kingdom Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

It is the vision of Fylde Coast partners to create a tobacco free Fylde Coast and in turn remove all the health harms associated with tobacco addiction. Key to this is supporting all partners to ensure that helping people to stop smoking and recognising smoking as an addiction is a collective and collaborative effort.

The NHS Long Term Plan identifies smoking as one of the top five risk factors that cause premature deaths in England. As such, the NHS is investing in frontline services to tackle tobacco dependence for all inpatients, pregnant women and their partners and high-risk outpatient service by 2023/24.

The Blackpool Tobacco Addiction Service offers an integrated, safe, effective and person-centred tobacco addiction and treatment service, providing high quality care through a combination of pharmacotherapy and psychological support, contributing to improving the health of Blackpool residents and tackling health inequalities as part of the wider Fylde Coast smoking cessation pathway.

As a Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner within the Blackpool Tobacco Addiction Service, you will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to stop smoking across Blackpool. You will be responsible for pro-actively identifying clients and settings in which to deliver relevant interventions and work towards improving population health and reducing inequalities. You will provide individualised and group support to people who wish to stop smoking, working in partnership with a wide range of individuals and organisations including primary care, acute hospitals, local authorities, workplaces, and local community groups. You will also support the delivery of training in smoking cessation methods and brief interventions to other health professionals and those working in other organisations. You will work collaboratively to delivery and support the development of the service.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty-five-minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.

As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents - it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.

Service Provision
- Provide an evidence-based specialist smoking cessation service within the designated locality contributing to the achievement of the services stop smoking targets.
- Work with the Service Lead to arrange clinics, venues, and times in response to service specification priorities and to facilitate access to key target groups.
- Deliver one to one support to service users based on their needs carrying our comprehensive assessments of referred or self-referred clients and working with the client to plan and develop a smoking cessation programme which will meet the needs of the individual.
- In consultation with the service user, assess for and advise upon the most suitable pharmacological product and make a recommendation to the GP requesting an appropriate prescription if the service users choose a prescription only medicine. Where nicotine replace therapy is required, to facilitate the safe delivery of this product to the service user.
- Monitor the effects of the treatment programme and adjust as appropriate.
- Employ the use of carbon monoxide monitoring as a motivational and validation tool, understanding how to use it supportively and explain its use to service users.
- Plan, implement and evaluate smoking cessation groups in a variety of settings including primary care, community, and workplaces, arranging venues and times to respond to waiting times and caseload.
- Implement the theory of group processes in managing groups and adapt the framework and content of the session where necessary. Organise resources and appropriate information for service users.

Communication & Relationship Skills
- To liaise with and empower patients to develop, implement and evaluate their own stop smoking plan, considering scientific evidence, NICE guidance, and the experiences of the individual patient.
- Following assessment of the patient, to provide tailored support and motivational interviewing to patients, to gain commitment to quit.
- To work within a framework of flexibility, acknowledging individual patient preferences and accommodating the needs of each individual pa

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