Health Improvement Practitioner

6 months ago

Hammersmith and Fulham, United Kingdom Turning Point Full time

**Job Introduction**:
Do you want to help build a brighter future for communities and individuals in Hammersmith & Fulham doing a highly rewarding job. Turning Point’s drug & alcohol services are currently expanding during a really exciting time in the sector with new funding and investment, with additions of Smoking Cessation support within service provisions. We have a range of roles for people passionate about supporting others to make change. We have roles in different teams including:

- Community based treatment services: providing assessment, coordinating treatment and working partnership to support individuals. The roles include delivering structured psycho-social interventions in group and one to level to enable our service users to acquire thinking skills and behaviours to make lasting change.
- Homeless outreach provision: Targeting homeless individuals, offering a flexible and outreach response to highly vulnerable individuals sleeping rough or living in temporary accommodation.
- Criminal Justice rehabilitation/recovery services: working closely with the Probation Services, Prisons and Police to provide a rapid, tailored response to individuals that support their recovery and rehabilitation.
- To work as part of the health promotion team in the delivery of smoking cessation interventions to effectively reduce the smoking prevalence and meet the need of identified groups in the community.
- To assist in delivering Turning Point’s Public Health and Substance Use (PHSU) strategy within a multi-disciplinary service which reflects our person-centred values and the high level of ambition we have both for the people we support and the development of our own teams.

As a Health Improvement Practitioner, we offer a starting salary of £26,324 rising each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, rising to £30,794 + £3,633 ILW. (Dependent on experience you may be offered a starting salary above the initial starting salary).

You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

**Role Responsibility**:

- Provide high standards of care and support to help people with their smoking of the stop smoking service;
- Be an ambassador within the multi-disciplinary service in raising aware of smoking cessation and the importance in providing targeted work identified groups in the community
- Identify and engage with individuals from agreed target groups and communities to facilitate communication regarding their access to and experience of the Smoking Cessation service
- Liaise with key partner organisations such as; community organisations, mental health service providers, hospitals, maternity care, to promote a strong awareness of the service and embed effective referral pathways
- Be actively involved in the awareness, promotion and marketing of the smoking cessation service, both externally and internally
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of public health research and best practice to disseminate to colleagues and key partners
- To build and maintain competence across the multi-disciplinary service for the delivery of very brief advice and practitioner level smoking cessation practice, including the provision of evidence-based, effective interventions;
- Caseload management of individuals accessing the Smoking Cessation Service, in line with best practice
- Ensuring focus on professional development, and partaking in regular supervisions, audits and observations as required
- Support the Smoking Cessation service functionally by providing support to individuals to ensure the development of effective smoking cessation plans and support behaviour change
- Support the development of competency across the service by leading on the implementation of a robust training and mentoring programme for VBA, practitioner level and update training for all colleagues within the service and subcontracted providers/partners
- Contribute to team structures to ensure contractual KPIs are being met

Essential Requirements:

- In depth understanding and ability to operationally contribute to the functions of the team;
- Excellent communication skills (verbal/written). Ability to adapt to respond to staff, commissioners/partners and people we support;
- Strong organisational, time management and prioritisation skills;
- Ability to remain calm and resilient in high pressure environments;
- In-depth understanding of smoking cessation delivery.
- Competent in delivering smoking cessation interventions at NCSCT practitioner level
- Understanding and ability to successfully deliver methods in smoking cessation including best practice behaviour change approaches and pharmacotherapy delivery.
- Up to date with the broad health improvement agenda including understanding and adopting appropriate policies, principles, research and best practice guidelines to ensure successful

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