Role Purpose: As a Tobacco Dependency Practitioner for Secondary Care, you will be an integral part of Smoking Cessation in hospitals, working alongside existing hospital-based Tobacco Dependence Teams to ensure a medical model of care for tobacco dependency is an integrated part of routine client care by all health professionals. Ultimately this programme will lead to the most significant referral route for the overall smoking cessation service within the county. Training will be given to ensure staff/applicants are equipped to deliver effective services.
Your key responsibilities will be:
1. Motivate and empower clients to make changes to address their addiction.
2. Explain to clients the principles of the nicotine and Stop Smoking Service to enable them to make informed choices.
3. Deliver evidence-based stop smoking interventions, including one-to-one, drop-in, group sessions, telephone, or online support, in accordance with the NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme.
4. Work with other professionals to embed smoking cessation as part of routine client care.
5. Maximise the impact of smoking cessation on health gains and reduce health inequalities.
6. Understand the analysis of health and equalities data, including service data identifying local need to inform local service need.
7. Provide high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective services throughout a diverse range of community settings.
8. Lead peer support group sessions for successful quitters following intervention to prevent relapse.
9. Provide evidence-based education in all aspects of smoking cessation and behavioural change, as well as ongoing motivational support.
10. Work with individuals to set realistic sustainable goals.
11. Ensure all client and service records are up to date, accurate, and satisfy the ABL Health documentation policies.
You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive individual with significant experience in smoking cessation or addiction. This role will be demanding as services develop and should become integrated in all settings. It will be essential that you use your own judgement to prioritise competing demands and workload effectively to specific timescales.
Duties and Responsibilities: This post will work under the line management of the Head of Service. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as the service becomes embedded in all local communities across the borough.
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