Sunderland Specialist Stop Smoking Service Overview
ABL Health and Sunderland City Council focus on supporting people to quit smoking and other tobacco products. Working with a multi-disciplinary team of professionals, external stakeholders, and partners to ensure the service is tackling health inequalities across the population of Sunderland.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities will be:
1. Working with ABL's communication team to help raise the profile of SSSS.
2. Engaging local services and partners to ensure local awareness and explore partnership opportunities and co-production activities.
3. Working closely with operational colleagues to manage the referral rates and develop partnerships with all potential referrers in your locality.
4. Organising/attending GP practice-PCN meetings to promote SSSS and sustain referral pathways.
5. Attending local health forums/groups/meetings on a regular basis where required to represent ABL, promote SSSS, and maintain local partnerships - this will involve some public speaking/presenting to small/medium groups of people.
6. Working collaboratively with all members of the SSSS team and undertaking work in other areas when necessary, including occasional delivery support.
7. Supporting the monitoring and evaluation of the service and using formal and informal feedback to constructively shape and develop the service.
8. Updating the partnership database with all contacts including required follow-up contact and strategic developments required.
9. Attending all relevant team meetings including district team meetings and community engagement meetings providing engagement updates and contributing to quarterly reports as directed.
10. Reporting against relevant targets, providing regular updates as requested on the progress of the project.
11. Supporting with communications strategies.
About us
ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence-based, innovative, effective, and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities, and stakeholders.
Job responsibilities
You will be the Partnership Practitioner for a specified geographical area for the Sunderland Specialist Stop Smoking Service (SSSS) for Sunderland County. You will be expected to engage at neighbourhood and place level to increase referrals into the SSSS and build long-lasting relationships with local partners. This will involve being responsible for developing and maintaining strong, positive, and long-lasting relationships with a wide range of stakeholder groups, including but not limited to local authority, primary and secondary care, leisure services, and the community and voluntary sector and community services.
You will be a motivated, passionate, organised, and proactive communicator, with experience working in a partnerships setting. ABL takes a strengths-focused asset-based approach to community delivery, looking to innovate and partner, not replicate existing delivery. The role will require dynamic working which embraces the vision and values we wish to establish for the SSSS supporting people to achieve healthy lives.
No two days will be the same in this varied and flexible role. If you are as comfortable spending a day with the team as you are working independently and confidently with new people and are highly organised, this could be the job for you.
This is a demanding job, but you will not be on your own. ABL's highly experienced and friendly multi-disciplinary team of Health and Social Care professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance, and Business Development are there to support. Additionally, existing experienced delivery teams will be available to support you to drive the Service forward.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working in a community setting.
* Experience of working in a health care environment.
* Demonstrable experience of partnership working.
* Demonstrable experience of speaking to large groups.
* Previous experience of delivering training programmes.
* Experience of delivering focus groups.
* Experience of public speaking.
* Experience of partnership working/collaborating with various different organisations.
Qualifications
* Degree and/or equivalent experience in community healthcare, psychology, behaviour change.
* Experience in a leadership role.
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.
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