Job summary
- Main area
- Addiction
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 16 months (Fixed Term 16 Months - subject to extension)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 333-D-AD-0502
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oasis Camden
- Town
- Camden
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Breathe Smoking Cessation Trainer/Volunteer lead
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
This post will be based at Breathe’s Camden office and will form an intrinsic part of the team. The post holder will work flexibly across the boroughs of Camden and Islington to deliver Smoking Cessation training and raise awareness of the service, supporting the referral process. They will identify and train a wide range of stakeholders, including clinicians and other health and social care professionals, as well as various community groups and the general population.
In addition, the post holder will be responsible for recruiting, training and supporting volunteers in the Stop Smoking Service.
The post will contribute social value to the residents of Camden and Islington by delivering training and other interventions in community venues and groups, empowering the community’s response to smoking related issues.
Main duties of the job
- Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the project across Camden and Islington and act as a single point of contact, ensuring delivery against timelines, escalating issues and reporting highlights within the governance process as appropriate.
- Promote and deliver audience-appropriate training on evidence-based care and disseminate best practice, often working alone.
- Assist to develop, pilot and implement an online Breathe modular level 2 training.
- Design, develop, review, implement and evaluate the training requirements regularly with support of others, to ensure that the needs of clients, stakeholders and services can be met.
- Lead on the implementation at local levels of national Stop Smoking campaigns and World Days/Weeks/Months (e.g. Stoptober, NSD, Lung awareness month etc).
- Maintain accurate records of trainings, collect data and provide written reports as required.
Working for our organisation
The Breathe Stop Smoking Service is committed to providing accessible, evidenced based services that treat tobacco dependence, effectively helping smokers to stop smoking, reduce smoking health harms and inequality and ensure residents stay healthy, giving children the best start in life.
The NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) is preparing to make a new contribution to making England a ‘Smokefree society’, by 2030 and sets out the Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health with several recommendations for the Tobacco Control Plan. In addition, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NCE) Guidance NG209 also sets out what is required of stop smoking interventions including the provision of behavioural and licensed products such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and prescribed stop smoking medications available for our residents.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the project across Camden and Islington and act as a single point of contact, ensuring delivery against timelines, escalating issues and reporting highlights within the governance process as appropriate.
- Promote and deliver audience-appropriate training on evidence-based care and disseminate best practice, often working alone.
- Assist to develop, pilot and implement an online Breathe modular level 2 training.
- Design, develop, review, implement and evaluate the training requirements regularly with support of others, to ensure that the needs of clients, stakeholders and services can be met.
- Lead on the implementation at local levels of national Stop Smoking campaigns and World Days/Weeks/Months (e.g. Stoptober, NSD, Lung awareness month etc).
- Maintain accurate records of trainings, collect data and provide written reports as required.
- Produce robust and realistic project plans, using appropriate methodology and leading to the implementation of actions and outcomes required to deliver the projects in line with agreed timescales.
- Maintain a full and accurate audit trail of key decisions, actions and outputs, including but not limited to risk and issue logs, project/milestone plans, update/highlight reports, and action plans, and to adjust, if targets/deadlines are not met.
- Participate in the evaluation of the training and produce documents, reports and presentations on a regular basis.
- Link in with the GP/pharmacy lead to ensure the smooth and robust delivery of level 2 training.
- Review the project status regularly to ensure that time scales and other requirements of the project plan are being met.
- Ensure that the perspectives of a wide range of stakeholders are integrated into the work of the project, working with teams and managers to identify training needs and develop new ways of delivering training.
- Undertake extensive community engagement and community involvement, including to identify training needs and consider co-production.
- Promote the service and facilitate referrals as required.
- Manage internal and external barriers to engagement with training
- Be self-motivated and able to work on their own. The post holder will be required to work autonomously with minimal supervision, managing own workload and schedule
- Recruit, train and lead the volunteers for Camden and Islington Stop Smoking Service
- Supervise, support and provide adequate training to the volunteers to ensure they are equipped with appropriate skills and well managed to carry out their roles.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Degree level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Master’s degree
- Training/teaching qualification
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to exercise judgement when presented with complex problems
- Ability to prioritise and communicate issues to colleagues
- Ability to motivate others and negotiate deadlines
- Ability to build excellent working relationships and gain respect and confidence of others
- Able to work effectively as part of a team
- Ability to interpret and present data accurately in appropriate formats
- Excellent planning and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks
- Excellent IT skills
- Proven organisation skills
- Proven research and evaluation skills and review of research evidence
- Experience of qualitative and quantitative research
- Ability to present training information using various formats.
- Ability to work in a confident and assertive manner and to present training sessions professionally and competently.
- Ability to keep effective and appropriate records in various formats
- Training development and report writing skills
Experience & knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of work in smoking cessation or related fields (in treatment or other capacity including research).
- Good understanding of stop smoking evidence base and good practice standards.
- Experience of project management.
- Experience of delivering training
- Experience of conducting research, evaluation or audits
- Experience of identifying learning needs and developing appropriate strategies
- Experience of planning and delivering training in a range of settings e.g. formal/informal
- Experience in delivering training in a variety of media to a range of audiences
- Track record of meeting deadlines and delivering objectives in a timely manner
- Experience of gathering and analysing data from a wide variety of sources and using a variety of software packages
- Self-starter. Works on their own. Demonstrable ability to work on their own initiative
- Evidence of working across professional boundaries
Desirable criteria
- Experience in developing content for education and training delivery
- Community engagement experience
- Needs assessment experience (desirable)
- Training needs assessment experience
Communication
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrable experience of writing documents/ articles or reports.
- Good presentation and training skills
- Ability to analyse and present complex information to professional colleagues
- Able to tailor communication and training styles, depending on audiences
Personal qualities and Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to demonstrate a high degree of self-motivation and commitment
- Team player
- Confident
- Calm
- Flexible
- Self-motivated
- Approachable
- Ability to deliver training in different settings across the borough and to travel across the borough
- Ability to deliver training in the evenings, when required
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Meghna vithlani
- Job title
- Sector Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07484501760
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