Stop Smoking Facilitator

at  North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

The Specialist Stop Smoking Service is seeking to recruit a Stop Smoking Facilitator to work within our service.
We have an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated individual to work within the Team, providing behavioural change advice and facilitate voucher prescribing treatment to smokers. As a key staff member the successful candidate will be passionate about improving health outcomes for the residents . This includes raising the profile of, and facilitating access to stop smoking provision in key settings and improving referral pathways into stop smoking provision.
Although previous experience of community-based health improvement initiatives would be helpful, training and support will be offered if required.
The successful candidate must be able to work occasional late evenings and some Saturday mornings.
The Stop Smoking Facilitator will be required to provide smoking cessation behavioural change advice, support and assessment, and where appropriate facilitate voucher NRT treatment to clients who want to stop smoking. This includes raising the profile of, and facilitating access to stop smoking provision in key settings and improving referral pathways into stop smoking provision.. To provide resources, training and guidance to staff and volunteers offering smoking cessation brief interventions.
At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.
We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition – a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.
We recruit for values and “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”
To provide smoking cessation behavioural change advice, support, assessment and where appropriate facilitate voucher NRT treatment to clients and where applicable, family members who want to stop smoking.
To coordinate stop smoking sessions and to work flexibly to cover the needs of the service as required including evenings and Saturdays.
To maintain stock levels in drop in clinics and ensure that Advisers are appropriately resourced and to share responsibility for calibration of monitors.
To offer support, resources, training and appropriate guidance to health related staff, including Children’s Centre and voluntary sector staff in accordance with Making Every Contact Count.
To ensure that clients who receive smoking cessation treatments are followed up and offered continued care in appropriate settings in the community.
To assist with organising and distribution of materials and represent the Stop Smoking Service at promotion events.
To work closely with and regularly report to the assigned Stop Smoking Specialist Adviser to monitor progress and agree objectives.
To enter, collect and present (where required) appropriate data to meet monitoring and audit requirements and maintain and store robust records which meet data protection requirements.
To appraise, interpret and apply suggestions, recommendations and directives to improve services

Please refer the Job description for details