JOB DESCRIPTION HEALTHY LIFESTYLE PRACTITIONER Smoking Cessation MAIN PURPOSE The Healthy Lifestyle Practitioners key responsibilities are to be functional within the Smoking cessation team and to deliver Stop Smoking services across Southend. SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES The post holder will Support the contract team to ensure the Smoking service is of high profile and there is strong awareness in relation to the Gateway of entry in the service. Identify and engage with individuals from agreed target groups and communities to facilitate communication regarding promoting their health and wellbeing, and the service. Develop and maintain relationships with individuals who are experiencing the greatest inequalities in health and provide information to individuals about the relationship between behaviours and health. Make contacts, develop, and maintain professional links within communities including promoting the Smoking Service and your health role to contact groups where there may be barriers to understanding. To champion and adhere to processes and procedures to identify and strive for continuing improved quality throughout the client/patients pathway, together with robust data management. To meet internal and external performance management requirements given to you by the Stop Smoking Coordinator and Service Manager. Be responsible for ensuring rigorous and regular data inputting to ensure accurate records are maintained in accordance with EH procedures, to ensure compliance with Information Governance and Data Protection in relation to patient information. The post holder is expected to work within the requirements of the 6 Cs Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment. Support at local in-person and sometimes virtual events, helping to set up and close-down as appropriate. Collate accurate clinical records in line with national PHE NCSCT requirements and inputting data into the service web-based database in a timely and professional manner. Responsible for accurate uploading of own client data onto database whilst ensuring client confidentiality. PERSON SPECIFICATION SKILLS and ABILITIES Have strong interpersonal and communication skills. Able to plan and be flexible with good time management skills. Be an excellent communicator, able to express to other organisations the benefits of working together. Excellent written, verbal, non-verbal communication, and presentation skills. Computer literate ability to maintain and monitor information systems in line with the national minimum dataset and adapt to reflect local needs. Able to take specific deliverables and use appropriate policies, principles, and guidelines to ensure successful delivery. Friendly, supportive, and encouraging to people in difficult sometimes frustrating situations. Organised, flexible and adaptable approach to working. Confident and competent at monitoring, managing and reporting own screening equipment needs. Value and respectful of other people regardless of background or circumstances. Able to respect confidentiality. Good empathy skills.