Vaping Clinic Facilitator

This exciting new post will design and deliver interventions to support Lewisham residents using e-cigarettes to reduce and quit vaping.

The role will oversee the delivery of the intervention under the guidance of the Stop Smoking Team Lead and will work with colleagues to align the service with community clinics as they set up, run, and analyse the outcomes of the programme.

Having strong communication and partnership skills and experience, as well as being a trained stop smoking advisor, are vital for this post.

Travelling around the borough will be a requirement of the role.

PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this post

Main duties of the job

• Act as an advisor for vapers who wish to stop using electronic cigarettes, working with the wider stop smoking service to identify and support patients to stop vaping after they have become smokefree.
• Work with local stop smoking services to provide a follow up service to standard care and to promote this service across the wider community.
• Be aware of current advances in public health interventions and be able to facilitate the team members in implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Provide advice, support, and arrange treatments for all identified vapers and track their progress. Manage a case-load of vapers quit attempts as their named advisor as well as occasionally covering stop smoking clinics.

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Job responsibilities

Accountable to Stop Smoking Team Lead.The post holder will play a key role in supporting patients who are unable to stop using electronic cigarettes. They will work across Lewisham borough, taking responsibility for identifying people who vape, delivering stop vaping support, and providing follow up.They will design and deliver a novel support programme for vapers and will provide awareness training and resources for key stakeholders.The post holder will have passed the NCSCT practitioner assessment and will be competent to provide effective patient care in a range of settings, having a close regard for relevant Trust policies to ensure safe and effective working practices when working with vulnerable patients, maintaining patient confidentiality, and designing individually tailored support programmes according to evidence-based practice for the effective delivery of stop smoking interventions across the borough using the standards laid out in NICE guidelines (NG209) and by the NCSCT.They will track patient outcomes to ensure they receive a high standard of care to maximise their chances of stopping vaping.The facilitator will also work in stop smoking clinics to cover colleagues during periods of annual leave or sickness.

Qualifications & Training

• Educated to degree level or appropriate professional qualification e.g. nursing, social work, counselling, health promotion
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• SCTRP 'Setting up and running stop smoking groups'

Experience

• Experience in delivering health improvement programmes
• Experience of delivering behaviour change programmes to vulnerable groups
• Experience of project development and management
• Experience of designing and delivering training to a wide range of professions.
• Experience of successful partnership work across agencies and/ or professional groups
• Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written
• Able to formulate and verbalise views
• Able to anticipate and forward plan
• Able to use initiative and work with minimum supervision
• Working with smokers
• Working with vapers
• Supporting people to change behaviours

Knowledge & Skills

• Ability to work under pressure and remain calm
• Understands key issues around smoking cessation delivery in acute and community settings
• Can translate national guidance into local practices
• Able to analyse data and to evaluate the effectiveness of different initiatives
• Able to recognise stress in self and others and support colleagues through stressful situations.

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.

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearper annum plus HCAS pro rata