Job summary
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference working with pregnant women and providing support and behavioural intervention to help them give up smoking. This is a job for someone looking to make a difference in people's lives and helping them make healthier choices.
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About You
To apply for this post, you must:
1. NVQ Level 2 Understanding Health And NVQ Level 3 Certificate for Health Trainers Or NVQ Level 3 in Information, Advice & Guidance Or Equivalent qualification qualification
2. Relevant work in a paid or voluntary capacity with individuals and/or pregnant women and groups
3. Undertaking in-depth assessments of health needs specific to tobacco use.
4. Reviewing progress against agreed action plans and evaluating outcomes and other benefits
5. Working in a multi-agency or multidisciplinary environment
6. Knowledge and understanding on national guidance on tackling smoking in pregnancy NICE NG209, SBLCB V3
7. Understanding of health behaviour theory and the approaches/tools that can be used to influence behaviour
Main duties of the job
About the Role
The postholder will be responsible for offering time-limited, person-centred smoking cessation support and advice in one to one home visits and group settings across University Hospitals Leicester and Leicestershire in order to reduce the prevalence of smoking, especially smoking in pregnancy, in Leicestershire County. You will have a good understanding of the smoking cessation and tobacco control and the barriers that pregnant women experience when giving up smoking.
About us
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in theOur Working Stylespage on our career site.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To know and understand what the tobacco control, specifically smoking cessation and prevalence, issues are in the local community and what support options are available to meet peoples needs and preferences.
To engage with smokers contacting the service and provide an intake and evaluation of their smoking status, willingness to quit and establish their quit plan appropriately.
To assess the needs of people seeking help in relation to smoking, whether quitting, cutting down or general curiosity and their reason for seeking help and support.
Delivering smoking cessation sessions via one to one and group interventions in a variety of settings across University Hospitals Leicester (UHL) and Leicestershire community stop smoking services utilising motivational interviewing and behaviour change skills with a key focus on maternity services
To engage and provide evidence-based motivational support that empowers the person to take control over their smoking behaviour, whether its to quit, cut down or make changes to their smoking behaviour.
Providing clinical advice and support to clients, partners and other professionals including engagement work with community and hospital-based midwives and maternity support workers
Plan and deliver stop smoking treatment sessions via one-to-one counselling/interviewing
Keep the Public Health midwife and other relevant partners informed of the overall success and targets of the stop smoking service
To support pregnant women daily to stop smoking by providing them with the necessary support and tools for smoke free pregnancies and smoke free homes
To contribute to the overall success and targets of community stop smoking services for Leicestershire
To ensure that data is entered onto the client case management systems for Leicestershire stop smoking services in an effective and timely manner
To promote smoking cessation among UHL partners with a key focus on maternity and neonatal services
Coordinate with secondary care specialist advisors and the Public Health midwife to plan and deliver UHL staff training and engagement as and when required and to contribute to any projects that are maternity related.
To agree and document an action plan to address the persons needs, which may include introducing people to relevant self-help resources, community support or specialist services.
To signpost or refer people as appropriate to self-help resources, community support or specialist services.
To build and maintain good working relationships with community staff and organisations and develop new pathways and processes for new groups identified.
To manage difficult interactions with people who may have emotional episodes in a tactful and supportive manner, taking immediate action in line with existing policies and procedures when faced with a high-risk situation.
To collect, record and report activity data in line with ethical principles, including respect, consent, confidentiality and data protection, and to maintain a complete and accurate information system.
To contribute to the monitoring of quality and outcomes in order to ensure fair and consistent service provision and to inform future service development.
To follow-up people referred/signposted in line with the service specification to assess progress, identify any problems and determine if further support is needed.
To inform the development or streamlining of support pathways to improve their experience and increase efficiency.
To provide training to professionals on a rotational basis in line with the service specification
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
8. Knowledge
9. Knowledge of the wider Public Health context of which tobacco control sits within.
10. Knowledge and understanding on national guidance on tackling smoking in pregnancy NICE NG209, SBLCB V3
11. Knowledge of the barriers people have to accessing services
12. Understanding of health behaviour theory and the approaches/tools that can be used to influence behaviour
13. Good practical knowledge of the various sectors, organisations and staff groups that provide health and wellbeing support
14. Awareness of initiatives, guidance, benefits/ rights, policy and/or legislation relating to tobacco products and smoking
15. Skills and Competencies
16. Ability to work proactively as a team member to negotiate and implement effective outcomes
17. Effective communication and listening skills in English, including ability to motivate and influence
18. Good presentation skills to small and larger audiences
19. Good levels of numeracy, literacy, organisational and planning skills
20. Ability to keep up to date with health and wellbeing policy and practice, including health advice and tobacco control
21. Ability to form good working relationships with individuals and organisations, inspiring trust and motivating others
22. Able to recognise the limits of own accountability and responsibility, and seeking appropriate support, advice and supervision
23. Ability to undertake direct work with all people who access the service and need support
24. Able to manage conflict and disagreement and to be appropriately assertive
25. Ability to work within the ethical principles of dignity, respect, fairness and confidentiality.
26. Skills in assessing health and wellbeing needs, including screening, structured interviews and unscripted discussion
27. Skills in the use of behaviour change techniques, such as motivational interviewing or brief intervention
Qualifications
Essential
28. NVQ Level 2 Understanding Health
29. And NVQ Level 3 Certificate for Health Trainers
30. Or
31. NVQ Level 3 in Information, Advice & Guidance
32. Or
33. Equivalent qualification NCSCT qualification
34. Or
35. Demonstrable experience identified within the section below, including practical experience of advice work in a voluntary or paid setting
Experience
Essential
36. Relevant work in a paid or voluntary capacity with individuals and/or pregnant women and groups
37. Undertaking in-depth assessments of health needs specific to tobacco use.
38. Providing information, advice and motivational support to help people identify and address the issue of smoking
39. Reviewing progress against agreed action plans and evaluating outcomes and other benefits
40. Helping people in difficulty, showing sensitivity, building trust and putting people at ease
Desirable
41. Working in a multi-agency or multidisciplinary environment
42. Working in a health, care and/or welfare setting