Smoking Cessation Practitioner

NHS; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS organization as an ORB Smoking Cessation Practitioner, providing essential support for individuals seeking to quit smoking. You will work flexibly across sites, using motivational techniques to help clients navigate their smoking cessation journey. Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team and engage in health promotion initiatives to make a significant impact on public health.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing individual care plans for managing recovery.
• Experience working within health and/or drug and alcohol services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver one to one and group stop smoking cessation interventions.
• Engage with national health promotion initiatives like Stoptober.
• Carry a caseload of service users requiring smoking cessation interventions.

Skills

Diversity Issues

Motivational Techniques

Education

Experience in Smoking Cessation Services

Experience in Health Services

Job description

Our ORB Smoking Cessation Practitioner will deliver one to one and group stop smoking cessation interventions within our service and to individual's that use our service. Helping those impacted by smoking and its associated harms, make informed future choices about their use.

The post holder will be required to work flexibly across our two main sites in High Wycombe and Aylesbury as required ensuring their skills, expertise and knowledge are fully utilised.

Main duties of the job

• To utilise motivational techniques, assess client's motivation to quit smoking and maintain relationships with the client group to support smoking cessation
• Work with people who access One Recovery Bucks (ORB) to identify the most appropriate tobacco dependency treatment pathway for them.
• As a core member of the multi-disciplinary team, the practitioner will work with service users on a 1:1 and/or group basis. They will also have the opportunity to co-work with other colleagues.
• Identify and engage with potentially vulnerable individuals.
• Regularly assist in updating smoking cessation information boards, posters and patient information as well as contributing to relevant policies as and when required.

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more detail, a summary is below:

• Engage with national health promotion initiatives such as Stoptober, to educate and involve service users and staff.
• To participate in regular supervision (clinical or management) in accordance with good practice guidelines, update NCSCT (National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training) competencies annually.
• To carry a caseload of services users requiring smoking cessation interventions.
• To support the delivery of brief interventions and brief treatment psychosocial pathways.
• To work with the Health and Wellbeing Clinical Nurse Specialist to represent ORB within the Tobacco Control Alliance and liaise with Public Health Practitioner for Tobacco within Bucks Council.
• Assess, develop, implement and evaluate treatment plans for service users identified as smokers and throughout the treatment period.
• Assessment and subsequent support may take place in a range of venues including the service users own home.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working with smoking cessation services
• Experience of supporting with the development of individual care plans for managing recovery
• Experience of working within health and/or drug and alcohol services

Skills

• Sensitive understanding of diversity issues and an ability to promote anti - discriminatory practice/ equal opportunities

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.