Smoking Cessation Practitioner

NHS; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an ORB Smoking Cessation Practitioner to deliver smoking cessation interventions. The role involves working with individuals and groups to promote informed choices about smoking. The practitioner will engage with vulnerable individuals and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to support recovery management. This is a full-time, fixed-term position based in Aylesbury, with a salary range reflecting the Band 5 pay scale.

Qualifications

• Experience working with smoking cessation services.
• Supporting development of individual care plans for recovery management.
• Experience 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.
• Manage a caseload of service users requiring smoking cessation interventions.

Skills

Diversity Issues

Job description

Job summary

Our ORB Smoking Cessation Practitioner will deliver one-to-one and group stop smoking cessation interventions within our service and to individuals 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 needed, ensuring their skills, expertise, and knowledge are fully utilized.

Main duties of the job

1. Utilize motivational techniques, assess clients' motivation to quit smoking, and maintain relationships with the client group to support smoking cessation.
2. Work with people who access One Recovery Bucks (ORB) to identify the most appropriate tobacco dependency treatment pathway for them.
3. As a core member of the multidisciplinary team, work with service users on a 1:1 and/or group basis. Opportunity to co-work with colleagues.
4. Identify and engage with potentially vulnerable individuals.
5. Assist in updating smoking cessation information boards, posters, and patient information, and contribute to relevant policies as 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 affected by addiction, crime, mental health issues, or in need of sexual health treatment. We believe that those who use our services should receive high-quality, inclusive care, realizing the benefits of a modern NHS organization. We invest heavily in training, development, and well-being of our staff and service users. Our services are evidence-based, inclusive, and designed with input from service users. We are committed to providing the best service possible and seek team members who share our values.

Details

Date posted: 09 May 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £29,970 to £36,483 per annum

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 301-IT-25-7189097

Job locations: One Recovery Bucks, Aylesbury, HP20 1TZ

Job description

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details. A summary is below:

1. Engage with national health promotion initiatives such as Stoptober to educate and involve service users and staff.
2. Participate in regular supervision (clinical or management) in accordance with good practice guidelines, and update NCSCT competencies annually.
3. Manage a caseload of service users requiring smoking cessation interventions.
4. Support the delivery of brief interventions and psychosocial pathways.
5. Collaborate with the Health and Wellbeing Clinical Nurse Specialist to represent ORB within the Tobacco Control Alliance and liaise with Public Health Practitioners for Tobacco within Bucks Council.
6. Assess, develop, implement, and evaluate treatment plans for smokers throughout their treatment period.
7. Support may take place in various venues, including the service user's home.

Person Specification

Experience (Essential):

• Experience working with smoking cessation services.
• Supporting development of individual care plans for recovery management.
• Experience within health and/or drug and alcohol services.

Skills (Essential):

• Sensitive understanding of diversity issues and promoting anti-discriminatory practice and equal opportunities.

Additional information

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, requiring a Disclosure and Barring Service check for any criminal convictions.

Applications requiring Skilled Worker sponsorship are welcome. Further details are available on the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, applicants must present criminal record certificates from each country of residence in the past 10 years if residing for 12 months or more cumulatively.

Employer details

Name: Inclusion

Address: One Recovery Bucks, Aylesbury, HP20 1TZ

Website: https://www.mpft.nhs.uk