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JOB DESCRIPTION: Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner (Community)

Job Title: Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner (Community)

Location: Throughout County Durham

**Salary**: £21,756 - 26,000 per annum depending on experience

Hours: Full time

Type of Contract: Permanent

Accountable/Responsible to: Specialist Stop Smoking Service Manager

Staff Accountable to Postholder: None

ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and stakeholders.

We are a value's driven organisation, dedicated to reducing health inequalities and improving people’s lives. This is a great opportunity to work with in a close team of committed professionals and you share our values of designing and delivering health services that are:
**People powered Bold Effective Thoughtful**

**We do this by supporting people to become active participants in their health**

Role Purpose:
The role of the Stop Smoking Practitioner is to support the delivery of evidenced based, equitable stop smoking services to help to reduce the inequalities throughout County Durham. This will include the delivery of services within areas of most deprivation. It is essential that the postholder can work flexibly, independently and as part of a team.

**Responsibilities**:
This post will work under the line management of the Community Specialist Service Lead and supervised by the Head of Smoking Cessation. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as the services develop as part of the national 10 - year plan.

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive individual with significant experience in smoking cessation and working within a community environment.

Key Responsibilities
- Motivate and empower clients to make changes to address their addiction
- Explain to clients the principles of the nicotine and Stop Smoking Service to enable them to make informed - choices
- Deliver evidence-based stop smoking interventions, these include one to one, drop in, group sessions, telephone, or on-line support, these must be in accordance with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme.
- Work with other professionals to embed smoking cessation is part of routine client care
- Maximise the impact of smoking cessation on health gains and reduce health inequalities
- To understand the analysis of health and equalities data including service data identifying local need to inform local service need.
- Provide a high quality, efficient and cost-effective services throughout a diverse range of community and health settings
- Lead peer support group sessions for successful quitters following intervention to prevent relapse
- Provide evidence-based education in all aspects of smoking cessation and behavioural change as well on
- going motivational support
- Work with individuals to set realistic sustainable goals
- Ensure all client and service records are up to date, accurate and satisfy the ABL Health documentation policies
- Manage a case load
- To engage and recruit potential clients at promotional and community events
- Provide administrative assistance to the service in terms of client contacts, appointment bookings and confirmations
- Provide clients with evidence-based smoking cessation support determined on the individual's nicotine dependency and in line with the formulary agreed by Public Health
- Identify opportunities to develop and improve services for clients
- Assist in the organisation of the workload ensuring effective and efficient communication to other staff members
- Maintain own knowledge of evidence-based methods and integrate new research into own practice
- Provide clients with evidence-based smoking cessation support determined on the individual's nicotine dependency and in line with the formulary agreed by Public Health
- Identify opportunities to develop and improve services for clients
- Assist in the organisation of the workload ensuring effective and efficient communication to other staff members
- Maintain own knowledge of evidence-based methods and integrate new research into own practice
- To conduct stakeholder engagement, identify and strengthen referral pathways and identify potential co-working opportunities
- Attend stakeholder meetings as required
- Attend regular Stop Smoking Service Meetings
- Attend training as required and keep up to date with the wider aspects of Tobacco Control
- Attend all training, internal and external to support the role

Skills and Competencies Required
- Be an _experienced Smoking Cessation Practitioner _in a community health system
- Experience of _evolving and developing services _using asset-based approaches.
- _Positive and proactive _outlook with the ability to motivate, engage and su