Stop Smoking Practitioner (Development Role 3-4)
Job summary
You'll support people in your community to stop smoking, helping them improve their health and wellbeing. This role plays an important part in reducing health inequalities and promoting healthier lifestyles. Working as part of the Stop Smoking Service, you'll provide tailored support to individuals and groups, helping them make positive, lasting changes. You'll also work closely with a range of health and community partners to reach people where they are and respond to local needs. This development role offers a structured pathway to build your skills and progress within the service.
Main duties of the job
What you'll do:
- Deliver one-to-one and group support to help people quit smoking
- Provide clear advice on the impact of smoking on health
- Work with community partners to promote healthy lifestyle messages
- Keep accurate records and monitor client progress
- Support local events and activities to engage communities
- Experience working with people in a community or healthcare setting
- Strong communication and listening skills
- Ability to motivate and support behaviour change
- Good organisational skills and confidence using basic IT systems
- Willingness to learn and complete training as part of a development plan
For further information on the role, please contact Beth Taylor, Team Lead on 0151 4267462 or email beth.taylor35@nhs.net
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached to this job advert for full details on the role.
Person Specification
Experience
- Demonstrable experience working with community groups, voluntary organisations in some capacity or working in a GP practice
- Knowledge and experience of IT systems including the ability to use Microsoft office; Outlook, Excel, Word and Power Point
- Experience of data collection and involvement in service monitoring and evaluation
- Experience of working and supporting individuals on a one to one basis
- Experience and ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
- Experience of building relationships and partnerships
- Experience of working collaboratively with other health care and non-health care professionals to meet patient needs
Qualifications
- Demonstrable commitment to professional and personal development
- Willingness to complete the NCSCT CHCP Health Trainer training course
- Level 3 or working towards an equivalent qualification in a relevant subject area and/or significant experience of working within a healthcare setting
- Training completed in motivational coaching/interviewing or equivalent experience
Knowledge
- An understanding of the role of voluntary and community sector organisations and the contributions they make to the health and wellbeing of individuals
- Knowledge of local communities, (including resources and assets) VCSE and community services in the locality as well as a commitment to work collaboratively with all local agencies
- Knowledge of factors influencing behaviour and behaviour change approaches
- An understanding of the factors that can impact on an individual's health and wellbeing
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities, individuals, their families and carers
- An understanding of community development and asset based approaches, building on existing community and personal assets
- An understanding of the importance of accurate record keeping and knowledge of information governance requirements
- Knowledge of health and safety requirements in relation to processes for risk assessment in relation to venues and home visits
- Knowledge of the personalised care approach
- An understanding of health and social care infrastructure and how services are provided to the local population
- Have a strong awareness and understanding of when it is appropriate or necessary to refer people back to other health professionals/agencies, when what the person needs is beyond the scope of the link worker role
- Have a specialist knowledge of one of the wider determinants of health (for examplee mental health, housing, debt/finance Smokefree) and commitment to continually develop further knowledge, skills and expertise within this area
- An understanding of the barriers and challenges that people may face to become Smokefree and how to overcome the challenges. in connecting to and accessing local activities and support
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
City Health Care Partnership CIC
Address
Smokefree Liverpool
23 Quorn Street
Liverpool
L7 2QR
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.chcpcic.org.uk/