Job summary
As a Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner within the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) Tobacco Reduction Service, you will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to stop smoking or reduce the harm from tobacco.
You will provide tobacco treatment advice and support to individuals, who want to stop smoking, reduce their harm from tobacco or temporarily abstain from using tobacco (e.g. during hospital stays).
As a Specialist SFT Tobacco Reduction Practitioner, you will play a key role integrating tobacco treatment into patients' routine care.
Main duties of the job
To help the service embed smoking cessation into routine medical careTo be responsible for assisting clinical teams in providing interventions to help tobacco users to stop smoking or reduce the harm from tobacco.Ensure all Smoking Cessation interventions comply with NICE, and NCSCT guidance.Work cohesively with other services to ensure multi-agency working is integrated into Smoking CessationIdentify opportunities to develop and improve services for clients.To be responsible for the assessment, planning and delivery of a programme of tobacco reductions interventions to clients at the hospital bedside and follow up seamlessly into the community on discharge.
About us
Yeovil District Hospital is now part of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression, and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.
There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone!
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please see attached job description and person specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please see attached job description and person specification
Person Specification
Person Specification
Essential
- Outstanding Care
- Listening and Leading
- Working Together
- Degree or equivalent level of knowledge gained through courses and significant experience
- Smoking Cessation Training Level 2 or willing to undertake within 3 months of starting post
- Willingness to undertake further training and work towards professional certification
- Knowledge of evidence-based smoking cessation initiatives
- Good knowledge and understanding of evidencebased practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
- Experience of working in the NHS in the community or hospital setting
- Experience helping people with behavioural change and delivering health promotion
- Experience of managing own workload without day-to-day supervision
- Computer literate, experience of using Microsoft Office software
- Ability to work and communicate in group settings
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals/individuals from different professional backgrounds
- Excellent literacy and interpersonal skills including active and reflective listening, empathy and the ability to motivate
- A self-starter who focuses on improving patients' health outcomes
- A positive outlook with an ability to inspire confidence, provide vision and motivate people
- Willingness to undertake further training as required for professional development
- Evidence of a good standard of Literacy / English language skills
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and listening skills
- Ability to summarise and present information in a relevant way to different audiences
- Experience of working effectively as part of a team
- Excellent interpersonal skills to deal with challenging situations and relationships with patients
- Willingness to use technology to improve standards of care and support to our patients
- Current and valid UK driving licence
- Able to work flexibly including weekend and evening work (as and when required to)
- Ability to work at all hospital sites as required
Desirable
- Counselling qualification
- Training in relation to health promotion and/or health education
- Understanding of audit and evaluation
- Knowledge of principles of health promotion and issues of health inequality
- Experience of working proactively and unsupervised on a day-to-day basis
- Experience of delivering presentations that are sensitive, delicate or contentious
- Experience of using clinical systems
- Ability to research, implement and disseminate evidence-based practice
- Ability to quickly establish and where appropriate further develop effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to manage workload with competing priorities and frequent interruptions that require urgent attention
- Ability to work responsibly in dealing with confidential/sensitive information
Person Specification
Person Specification
Essential
- Outstanding Care
- Listening and Leading
- Working Together
- Degree or equivalent level of knowledge gained through courses and significant experience
- Smoking Cessation Training Level 2 or willing to undertake within 3 months of starting post
- Willingness to undertake further training and work towards professional certification
- Knowledge of evidence-based smoking cessation initiatives
- Good knowledge and understanding of evidencebased practice in smoking cessation, the consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
- Experience of working in the NHS in the community or hospital setting
- Experience helping people with behavioural change and delivering health promotion
- Experience of managing own workload without day-to-day supervision
- Computer literate, experience of using Microsoft Office software
- Ability to work and communicate in group settings
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with professionals/individuals from different professional backgrounds
- Excellent literacy and interpersonal skills including active and reflective listening, empathy and the ability to motivate
- A self-starter who focuses on improving patients' health outcomes
- A positive outlook with an ability to inspire confidence, provide vision and motivate people
- Willingness to undertake further training as required for professional development
- Evidence of a good standard of Literacy / English language skills
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and listening skills
- Ability to summarise and present information in a relevant way to different audiences
- Experience of working effectively as part of a team
- Excellent interpersonal skills to deal with challenging situations and relationships with patients
- Willingness to use technology to improve standards of care and support to our patients
- Current and valid UK driving licence
- Able to work flexibly including weekend and evening work (as and when required to)
- Ability to work at all hospital sites as required
Desirable
- Counselling qualification
- Training in relation to health promotion and/or health education
- Understanding of audit and evaluation
- Knowledge of principles of health promotion and issues of health inequality
- Experience of working proactively and unsupervised on a day-to-day basis
- Experience of delivering presentations that are sensitive, delicate or contentious
- Experience of using clinical systems
- Ability to research, implement and disseminate evidence-based practice
- Ability to quickly establish and where appropriate further develop effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to manage workload with competing priorities and frequent interruptions that require urgent attention
- Ability to work responsibly in dealing with confidential/sensitive information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
