Smoking Cessation Advisor

Job responsibilities

Your Health Dudley (Integrated Health Improvement Service) overview

ABL Health, delivers the Integrated Health Improvement Service titled Your Health Dudley, which is commissioned by the Dudley Council. This transformative service seeks to work collaboratively with communities to support transforming services for the local population. The service will provide integrated behaviour support for smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol reduction, physical activity, cooking, family coaching and community health checks, all embedded in sustainable behaviour change and positive wellbeing.

Key responsibilities will be:

Motivate and empower clients to make behaviour changes.

Explain to clients the principles of the nicotine and Stop Smoking Service to enable them to make an informed choice of quitting.

Deliver evidence-based stop-smoking interventions, these include one to one, drop in, group sessions, telephone or on-line support, these must be in line with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme.

Work with other professionals to embed smoking cessation as part of routine care.

Provide a high quality, efficient and cost-effective services throughout a diverse range of community 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 (electronic or paper) are up to date, accurate and satisfy the ABL Health documentation policies.

To engage and recruit potential clients at promotional and community events.

Provide administrative assistance to the project in terms of client contacts, appointment bookings and confirmations.

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

To conduct stakeholder engagement, identify and strengthen referral pathways and identify potential co-working opportunities working closely with district community engagement officers and project lead.

To attend stakeholder meetings as required

To attend relevant meetings as required, including regular Team meetings, smoking cessation meetings.

To attend training as required and keep up to date with the wider aspects of Tobacco Control and the wider determinants of health.

Assist with step-down approach identifying, coordinating & recording signposting to Tier 1 / community activity programmes.

Develop website / social media materials for smoking cessation and reply to forum queries on the website accordingly.

Be innovative in ways of delivering activity and open to new ideas.

Engage as and when required with local stakeholders to ensure robust referral pathways.

Ability to cover sessions as required due to sickness or annual leave.

Maintain a specialist clinical caseload as agreed with the Smoking Cessation Lead

Skills and Competencies Required

Be an experienced smoking cessation advisor in a community health environment,

Experience of evolving and developing services within a complex health system.

Positive and proactive team player with the ability to motivate, engage and support delivery teams to achieve the highest standards and outcomes.

Adept in communication; A strong communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience.

Build strong relationships; Foster trust and co-operation among colleagues, stakeholders, community leaders, commissioners and sub-contractors; develop and sustain personal contact in order to benefit health and wellbeing of the people of Nottinghamshire.

Quality driven; you naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them.

Value and remain open to new ideas and perspectives.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a health and social care environment
• Experience of working with people and support them through behaviour change techniques
• Experience working with people from a variety of backgrounds, including areas of deprivation
• Working in partnership across agencies

Desirable

• Previous experience working in a Smoking Cessation Service

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent time management and organisation skills
• Must have a high attention to detail
• Proactive approach and able to work on own initiative
• To be able to work unsupervised
• Excellent team player
• IT literate with experience using Microsoft
• Knowledge of the problems faced by socially disadvantaged sectors of the community.
• Skills/knowledge to utilise computer software, including Microsoft Work, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing at all levels with individuals, groups and the public
• Understanding concepts of behaviour change and how to implement these
• Understanding and evidence of adhering to information governance policies
• Experience of engagement work with key partners, organisations, families, service users
• Ability to educate/train professionals at all levels
• Ability to manage stressful situations

Desirable

• Knowledge of child protection and safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
• Experience of developing and delivering training to target audiences
• Knowledge of the wider tobacco control agenda
• Understanding of addiction

Job Specific Requirements

Essential

• The ability to travel independently across Dudley
• Work flexibly and adapt to suit service needs.
• Weekend working as required

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).