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Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

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Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Reduce smoking prevalence and smoking-related health inequalities by providing evidence-based smoking cessation support to adult smokers attending Emergency Departments (EDs) in Norfolk.
• Reduce future Emergency Department attendances and hospital admissions linked to smoking-related conditions.
• Increase the number of quit attempts and successful smoking cessation outcomes.
• Contribute to improved population health outcomes and reduced burden on the NHS through early intervention.
• Support the Government’s ambition for Smokefree communities by 2030.
• Reduce inequalities in smoking prevalence and tobacco-related harm among disadvantaged populations.
• Embed the smoking cessation offer as part of a whole-system approach in collaboration with acute, community, and public health partners.
• Manage a caseload of participants identified as part of the Emergency Department Stop Smoking Service independently
• Using techniques such as motivational interviewing and Making Every Contact Count (MECC) to support sustained behaviour change.
• Ensuring inclusive engagement with individuals and communities experiencing the highest burden of smoking-related harm.
• Working collaboratively with acute trusts, local authority public health teams, and community partners to develop and strengthen local cessation pathways.
• Where vaping is not deemed appropriate for the patient, establishing alternative support in the community.
• Patients that require alternative pharmacotherapy or more intensive support will be referred to the appropriate service.
• Recording the details of those using the service by completing the documentation supporting the project in accordance with agreed SOPs.
• Inputting patient data onto local system and PharmOutcomes, ensuring all data is input accurately and thereby monitoring and auditing reports.
• Working as part of the wider team with other TDAs, health professional and ED Smoking champions.
• To maintain professional working relationships within Norfolk Acute Trusts and other relevant organisations.
• To be responsible for continuous professional development, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of evidence-based practices, techniques, and emerging guidance (including NICE). Complete all mandatory Trust training and NCSCT modules as required and proactively engage with ongoing learning relevant to the service.
• To be responsible for managing own daily timetable of delegated tasks including time for supervision and training.
• Carry out administrative duties as required by the role.
• Attend educational events, ED departmental meetings.
• Responsibility for the promotion of the Service within ED.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NCSCT Practitioner trained or willingness to undertake relevant tobacco dependency training
• Relevant qualification in health, healthcare, health promotion, or equivalent relevant experience
• Car owner/driver

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of providing healthcare, health advice or health promotion advice to patients or members of the public
• Experience of working in a healthcare, hospital, community, or other customer-facing environment

Desirable criteria

• Use of IT systems (e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook, PharmOutcomes)
• Experience of engaging and supporting people who may be ambivalent or resistant to behaviour change
• Evidence of effective team working and working with a range of professionals or partners
• Experience of delivering smoking cessation or tobacco dependency support
• Experience of working within an acute NHS/secondary care setting

Skills

Essential criteria

• Good understanding of tobacco dependency, the health consequences of smoking and the benefits of quitting
• Understanding of behaviour change and evidence-based approaches to smoking cessation and brief interventions
• Understanding of barriers to engagement

Desirable criteria

• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build rapport and engage people in a sensitive, non-judgemental way
• Ability to work confidently and sensitively in a busy Emergency Department environment

Further Information

How will we contact you?

All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails. As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager. If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

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We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

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