Job Description:

Job information Specialist Tobacco Reduction Practitioner from the Company Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, this latest Specialist Tobacco Reduction Practitioner job vacancy is located in the city Yeovil BA located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Specialist field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

The closing date is 11th Aug 2024

Job summary

As a Specialist Stop Smoking Practitioner within the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) Tobacco Reduction Service, you will contribute to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to stop smoking or reduce the harm from tobacco.

You will provide tobacco treatment advice and support to individuals who want to stop smoking, reduce their harm from tobacco or temporarily abstain from using tobacco (e.g. during hospital stays)

As a Specialist SFT Tobacco Reduction Practitioner you will play a key role integrating tobacco treatment into patients routing care.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

Your key responsibilities will be;

To help the service embed smoking cessation into routine medical care To be responsible for assisting clinical teams in providing interventions to help tobacco users to stop smoking or reduce the harm from tobacco. Ensure all Smoking Cessation interventions comply with NICE, and NCSCT guidance. Work cohesively with other services to ensure multi-agency working is integrated into Smoking Cessation Identify opportunities to develop and improve services for clients. To be responsible for the assessment, planning and delivery of a programme of tobacco reductions interventions to clients at the hospital bedside and follow up seamlessly into the community on discharge.

About us

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts. The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London. There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone!

Job description

For more details and further information about the role, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree or equivalent level of knowledge gained through courses and significant experience Smoking Cessation Training Level 2 or willing to undertake within 3 months of starting post Willingness to undertake further training and work towards professional certification

Desirable

Counselling qualification Training in relation to health promotion and/or health education

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in the NHS in the community or hospital setting Experience helping people with behavioural change and delivering health promotion Experience of managing own workload without day-to-day supervision

Desirable

Experience of working proactively and unsupervised on a day-to-day basis Experience of delivering presentations that are sensitive, delicate or contentious

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.

For help with your application, contact:

Martin Shore

martin.shore@somersetft.nhs.uk

07795931089

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28407.00 to £34581.00 Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-Time

Reference number

184-OL-BL-335

Job locations

Yeovil District Hospital Higher Kingston Yeovil Somerset BA21 4AT

Keywords : Yeovil jobs

Closed Date : 2025-03-06